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Client side prediction physics
Client-side prediction depends very heavily on a deterministic physics model that exactly replicates the way the game object behaves on both the client and the server. Even small floating point errors,...
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Should I use the pathfinding client side or server side?
Client-side greatly reduces your costs. The server is doing less calculation, so you need less server power per player. Assuming you want to display the path to the client, doing the calculation ...
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Are MMORPG servers and clients usually developed in isolation?
It's fair to say that for the sort of authoritative server / pure client which nearly all MMORPGs use for unavoidable security reasons, the server is typically developed with the specific purpose of ...
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clock synchronization
The industry standard network time protocol (NTP) also takes into account the latency of the server processing. This means there are 4 timestamps, one each for send/receive of client/server. when ...
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Does TCP slow down server and other clients for MMO game
TCP is generally viewed as being slow because of the guarantee of delivery, and the guarantee of delivery in order. When the packet is not received, it has to be resent. It seems that the delay to ...
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Are MMORPG servers and clients usually developed in isolation?
This is too context-dependent.
Some MMORPG games that I had a chance to look at in terms of source code preferred to develop the server and the client as separate codebases. Some of them didn't even ...
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Are MMORPG servers and clients usually developed in isolation?
Warning: Sweeping generalizations will be made here.
Client and server development (for the most part) is written in languages suitable to the task. The client will (most likely) be C++, C#, or mobile ...
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Are MMORPG servers and clients usually developed in isolation?
The answer is, it depends. My MMO is a separate development stack. My client is developed in Unity, and my server is .NET so they necessarily must be developed separately.
However, Unity for example ...
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Can I mod Among Us mobile so people don't get kicked because of network problems, and how?
Connection timeouts are usually handled server-sided, not client-sided. That means that this is a problem which should be fixed by the developers themselves. I have not read their sourcecode (and I ...
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Can I mod Among Us mobile so people don't get kicked because of network problems, and how?
Short answer: No
Long answer:
Theoretically you could if you knew the networking protocals that are involved and managed to compile a compatible version of the game with your fixes and got everyone in ...
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Client Side Game Local Storage
Local Storage is very similar to how cookies work. It's basically saving some data locally. These data are only accessible to the same browser on the same machine only.
It may be possible for some ...
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Does game client size always grow in size after updates?
Yes this is possible. Less code can mean the executable shrinks.
Compiled code is generally pretty compact, so a non-trivial amount of code would need to be removed for the difference to be ...
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Project organization for a multiplayer client-server game
In general I would suggest, do what makes sense for you and your project, if that works, then doesn't really matter if it's "correct" or "wrong". If it doesn't work, then it's a learning experience.
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Understanding a client/server relationship
The answer to all of these questions is "It depends".
1.) and 2.): There are two types of networking, one is a traditional one, it only has 1 server and every client is connected to this. The data ...
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No files in .net.minecraft
Get Minecraft Forge
Go here: http://files.minecraftforge.net/
Download the MDK (latest is usually best for development)
Follow the instructions for setup
There's no reason to decompile Minecraft ...
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blocking queue in Unity
This implementation shared by Stephen Toub is literally the second Google search result for "blocking queue c#" so don't underestimate the value of doing your own research. ;)
Code reproduced below ...
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How do I stop "StartServer listen failed" when I start a new server after a previous server has been destroyed?
Figured it out myself. This was a Unity glitch and it has been patched in Unity version 5.6
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Best practice/way for client to speak with server
Talking about online games - all logic/collision/actions should be manager on server. (because user is a cheater by default)
I understand that maybe one single unit jump with 50-100ms ping will looks ...
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