Thanks everyone who participated in the play test! It was pretty, uh, interesting... Hopefully that made everyone as hyped as it made me, especially when we were doing the robot job.
Unfortunately I forgot to enable automatic archiving of broadcasts, so VODs of the stream aren't available... I think a few people were recording, so they should upload the videos soon.
The obvious next step is fixing routing - most people were having problems with that. This might take a while to work out perfectly but it will greatly improve the gameplay experience once it works.
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Some of you may have already seen this video, but I think it speaks for itself.
Right now the server doubles as a fully usable desktop client - but eventually for the server this will become a headless server that can run many instances at once.
Though there won't be much to do, we will have chat and I'll try to fill the lot with as many objects as possible for you to try, and it will all be recorded for historic purposes. 8-| There may or may not be buy/build mode.
Now for the super important fact. As soon as I give the go-ahead in here, at exactly 23:00GMT, you should connect AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! Right now we're syncing off of the blueprint the server syncs off of, then running every tick since it starts. This will take a long time on slower computers, if the server has been running for a long time! Obviously this will be changed when we can serialize VM state, but right now it has to be like this to test multiplayer.
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