Questions tagged [multiplayer]
Played by multiple players, cooperatively or competitively, locally or remotely.
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Unreal Engine: Third person example project and multiplayer
I was fiddling around with multiplayer stuff in Unreal Engine. I looked into events that run only on server, multicasting events, replication of variables...
But there is something that I dont quite ...
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My lerp function is finishing too fast
I'm trying to make a lerp function on an online game. I'm doing this by having a buffer list, I append each server update to a list, and lerp over the contents, here is an example:
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How do you build a matchmaking service for an iOS turn-based board game?
I want to build a board game that matches players with similar skill levels against each other.
Take for example a chess iOS app. Log in, and the game pairs you up against someone with a similar elo ...
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How can I get ping value from Photon Cloud?
I am trying to get ping from Photon Cloud but it always shows 0. I use method GetPing();
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Multiplayer GameObjects in Giant World
I'm designing some kind of MMO strategy game with hundreds of players in Unity. Since the game will not have frequent operations, i think it will not have scalability issues using Unity HLAPI. Using ...
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How to make sleeping bodies interact with sensors in box2d?
I am making a top-down multiplayer game using box2d. The map is much bigger than the player's screen. I want to send players only objects that they can see on their screens. I am doing this to prevent ...
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Grid-based multiplayer game - best way to update player position on server?
Imagine a point and click, grid-based game (ie, click a square, player moves there via A* path finding). Assume it takes 1 second to move from square to square, with constant speed, and the tick rate ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of UPnP for my game?
I'm currently developing a multiplayer game in Java. Current architecture looks like that the players can host a server by themselfs. How ever they would to have manually open specific ports on there ...
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How to reconcile idle ticks for multi-player client side prediction?
I am building a 3D 3rd person real-time action MMO.
I am in the process of instrumenting client-side prediction and server
reconciliation. I have authoritative game state snapshots being sent
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How can i manage input in a split-screen multiplayer game?
In non-online multiplayer games, you most often see a "Press A to join" screen.
I'm currently trying to figure out how it would be possible to create such a system, that selects the player via ...
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Unity, tell matched players to go pick characters (Matchmaking)
I need to tell all the players in the match to go to some method that'd take them to character pick. The thing is that the pick happens inside the menu scene after the level get's preloaded (...
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RPC and Command Calls OR Network messages for syncing variables across Server and Client?
I'm currently making a Unity Multiplayer game that relies on the synchronization of variables across the Server and the singular Client. I'm already able to use [SyncVar] to sync variables from the ...
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I have a lerp function to smooth out lag in my game, but it jitters
I'm trying to smooth out lag using lerp like so:
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Send and receive network by each gameloop cause a latency?
I'm designing a network library for my real-time multiplayer game.
Now I will poll receive and send message in each update of the game on the server.
Here is what I doubt.
Suppose tick rate on the ...
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Unity (UNET) Pass custom data when creating and joining a match in multiplayer
I've written some simple stuff to make a lobby for matchmaking. Now I want to pass some extra info besides the match name to the lobby. Something like Player's avatar and a number of players connected ...
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Prediction and BEPU physics
i am doing a multi player game with bepu physics hosted on server.
Client use client prediction to move player. Client will send a message( contains: pressed time T, sequence number N ) to server ...
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Is Apple Game Center Multiplayer Online?
I'm trying to build a real-time multiplayer game on Unity. I was thinking of using services such as PUN or UNet, but then I ran into Game Center's multiplayer API.
I've read that Apple doesn't give ...
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lag compensation for slow bullets (opposing players perspective)
I have figured out how the server is suppose to "rewind" for bullet collisions so that when you hit a player on your screen, the server will also say you hit them. However, when you press a key to ...
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Is native performance of C++/C etc. relevant for game servers? [closed]
I am wondering if the performance of unmanaged languages like C++, Rust etc. is relevant when developing a game server or is it more about the network. For game clients, it makes sense and is probably ...
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Why Unity spawning extra object on client side but not on host side?
I Instantiated a Gun for player and also Spawned it on Server using NetworkServer.Spawn() it worked fine in Host both player have their gun but when I connected my ...
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Help needed with syncing animation speed of a player in a Networked game (Unity)
Follow-up with new code, as per below answer. Unfornutely i still have it wrong and now the character doesn't animate at all (it seems to stay at 0.00 of the clip for ever or constantly resets to 0.00 ...
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Multithreading MMO Server. A thread per area OK? [closed]
As a personal project, I'm setting up a MMO, and writing the server in C#/.NET Core.
As of now my architecture is as follows: The world exists of different areas ( you can go from area to area trough ...
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How to use SyncVar/Command/Rpc in Unity to set the AnimSpeed for each player in the scene separately
Im making a simple as possible scene in Unity for mulitplayer game. The character has a walking animation of which the speed is to be set exactly the same as the Z velocity relative to the object.
I ...
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Unity networking: argument exception while instantiating GameObject inside [Command] function
I wanted to instantiate an object and I used NetworkServer.Spawn() inside [Command] function it worked fine in host side but whenever I connect my client Untiy ...
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Turn Based Game - Best approach for Server communication. TCP/IP or REST API?
I want to create a turn base multiplayer game where each player simultaneously takes his/her actions, and ends the turn. Both will see what the other player did afterwards and the next round begins.
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C++ Game/Server Design
I am making a multiplayer game in which one of the players hosts the server. I have written a mock-up for the game loop and I have implemented an SFML TCPSocket server that clients can connect too. ...
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Realtime Multiplayer - How to handle user updates coming in different times
I have a game loop that sends new positions of every player to other players.
But there is no guarantee that the users will send the server their new positions at the same time. Actually if their ...
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Compensate for animation time in multiplayer network game
I'm developing a multiplayer turn-based card game. In certain scenarios, the clients are required to perform an animation before moving on with the game. For example, the server informs the clients to ...
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Implementing multiplayer aspect of a simple HTML5 game
I've been thinking about this a lot. I am trying to implement a simple multiplayer game but I have difficulty figuring out how to "share the scene". For example, there are non-player entities like ...
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calculating and saving latencies for multiplayer game
i am making a simple multiplayer puzzle game which basically presents a group of connected users some simple questions and whoever answers first wins the game. but i am having some issue in designing ...
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processing request in order on game server
I am creating a simple multiplayer puzzle game in which multiple players can join a lobby and compete with each other. the player that submits the answer first gets the highest point, the player that ...
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Linear Interpolation Implementation
I'm trying to implement entity interpolation into my game. The structure is as follows:
Send the keypress states from the client to the server
Process the inputs and make calculations based on them
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Will Geolocations for IPs ever change?
I'm making a game where the geographic location of a user is used to give them a little flag icon next to their user name. To do this, I've been using the ipstack API. However, the API only allows up ...
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Making Virtual Money for online games?
Is it okay and safe to make virtual money when making online games? I've seen, in 8 ball pool game, there are pool coins and pool cash; and in tetris battle games in facebook, there are tetris coins ...
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Google Play Games Services (Unity Plugin) turn-based simplest scene for understanding the working concepts
I want to understand how to make a turn-based multiplayer game in unity using GPGS. I have been able to integrate GPGS plugin into unity. I now know how to Log-in, create achievements, leader-boards ...
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How to randomly create a fair maze for a multiplayer game?
I am creating a 2d multiplayer RTS game which happens inside a maze. I have used Growing Tree algorithm to randomly generate the maze. I thought that the maze would be fair for each team as long as ...
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shooting bullets without players being able to cheat
I'm working on a multiplayer game and for bullets that players shoot I was wondering what is the right way to do it:
when a player press a key It send the key code to server and:
a. server starts ...
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Implementing online connectivity and multiplayer/PVP for a newbie
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I'm a noob programmer looking to create a simple turn based mobile game as a side project. I've pretty much got the game logic down and am left with implementing the online multiplayer/PVP ...
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Character appearance synchronization in open world multiplayer game
I am working on a multiplayer open world game where you can equip handhelds and armor pieces. In my architecture, there are clients and an authoritative server. Every equipable item is crafted by a ...
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Adding External Force to Client Side predicted Movement
So i have client side prediction implemented. The client applies the movements instantly and then applies reconciliation if anything is offset with the server.
Now what I would like to do is add ...
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Network limitation in multiplayer game
I have a multiplayer cooperative game (PVE) in where there can be up to 200 enemies at a time (somewhere around that) and I was wondering how devs generally synchronize these? I already have packets ...
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Duplicate packets and termination of packets in multiplayer game
I'm making a multiplayer game (lazertag) with real hardware.
After hours of research, I'm choosing the UDP instead of the TCP protocol to exchange data.
Because of how unreliable UDP is and because ...
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How ID's work in FPS games
I am wondering how games generate IDs/GUIDs for their entities (along these lines), and which entities specifically get them. To narrow the scope of the question down, I am just focusing on FPS games ...
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Physics update in a client/server architecture with different tick rate
In a game where the client would run at 60FPS and the server 20FPS/possibly 10FPS, I wonder if is possible to update the physics without losing resolution.
Consider the circunstance where a character ...
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Why do some games persistently have mostly one viable strategy, while others can have many?
The interesting thing in League of Legends is the existence of the "meta", which, for the purpose of this question, can be defined as the One Strategy That Rules Them All. The meta shifts between ...
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Is it possible to store ALL game data on the sever side
I want to make a game where everything is supposed to be a surprise. Everything from the maps to the enemies, no guides what so ever.
For a normal player it may not be a big deal but some people may ...
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In a game such as Star Wars Galaxies, Planetside, and Warcraft how would server-side collision/terrain navigation work?
I'm trying to learn some advanced topics in multiplayer networking for fun and education, specifically how server-side collision/terrain navigation works in MMOs and/or any online game.
Personally, I ...
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Ways to include relativity in multiplayer
Im currently working on a game concept including flying Space Ships in the solar system and maybe beyond.
As the ships are using similar engines than in "The Expance" Epstein Drive. relativistic ...
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How to store and retrieve user data in a multiplayer game
I am building a multiplayer game with a team and each player will have a multiplayer rank, a matchmaking rating (MMR), a username, and possibly a picture, a description etc.
We are planning on ...
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Spawn network objects in generated map
In my game, the server generates a procedural map, after send generation seed to generate it on the client. The client generates exactly the same map. In the map, I need to synchronize objects with ...
