but if its what I have to do it's what I have to do.įirst though. I think I am gonna end up having one of these discussions in every stinking multiplayer thread on here. No one bothers to explain it to people as to why this is bad for a game like Beam. so it makes me laugh every time this is brought up as the argument without really discussing the implications of that lag. We all know the game will lag if it is put online. just look at laggy Forza races and you know where I am going with this. Games themselves have countermeasures to try and not have the laggy player ruin things for everyone else as well. It just becomes something that, as a gamer, we have come to live with if we have a terrible connection. even games like League of Legends can have some pretty bad lag in it. there is literally no game (to my knowledge) that has multiplayer that has gotten around this issue. Yes, there are issues with the potential for lag and this thing and that thing and ping sucks if I live in China and you are in the USA and we try to play together or something. but in the back of all of our minds, we all want it whether we think it is doable or not. it is brought up so much that we are all sick of seeing it being suggested. The silly thing about all of this is the mere fact that multiplayer gets shot so hard every time it is brought up. That is, if I understand the problem correctly. Not to mention calculating the physics and compressing/uncompressing the data on both ends. So before we can talk about two instances of Beamng sending physics info to one another, we'll need a connection that's capable of sending information from one computer to another computer, and then sending roughly the same amount of information back to the first computer, in less than 0.5 milliseconds.

A quick Google search says it takes a few milliseconds at minimum for any two machines to so much as contact each other, before any actual information is even sent. Beam's physics run calculations 2000 times a second (0.5 milliseconds). The issue with all other proposals is that they assume lag can be glossed over, or that compression will spare them. Sure, there will be input lag, but a person can plan around latency. It's the simplest proposal, won't present any serious glitches, and won't require splitscreen support.

Click to expand.As multiplayer proposals go, I'm all for the 'All Calculations on the Server End,' personally.

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