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According to the linked article, transferring the full game state is too large - such as for SupCom where the game state is huge. Instead, they only pass player
by RyanZAG 11y ago
According to the linked article, transferring the full game state is too large - such as for SupCom where the game state is huge. Instead, they only pass player input. I guess that says for a Javascript game, you must always pass the full game state?
- varelse 11y agoNo, you can pass the controller states and timestamps to whichever node is acting as its server. You then extrapolate everywhere else until a correction arrives from the server. It worked magnificently and we used to watch efficiency improve up to 4 consoles and then gradually decline due to increasing latency. Never patented any of this, have at it, we have scads of prior art if anyone tries to do so :-)... In this day and age, I suspect the latency issues would be unnoticeable on a 10 Mb/s or better router (which is to say any LAN party) but this was done in the mid-90s.