Most efficient way to handle hordes of zombies in a multiplayer game?

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#1

what would be the best way to handle large amounts zombies in a multiplayer game? like detecting the players and pathfinding, most of the pathfinder freemodels i’ve used are slow as they aren’t meant to be used that way

#2

The best way would probably be to control all the zombies from 1 script and use stuff like coroutines so that they don’t all do the same thing and interfere with each other

#3

sounds good, but what about the pathfinding? wouldn’t i have to generate a new nav path each time to get to the player or is there a better way

#4

wouldn’t i have to generate a new nav path each time to get to the player

i think that would be expensive to do. instead, you can create a nav path once for all the zombies to follow

but what about the pathfinding?

it depends on your game. if you want the zombies to be a bit more advanced, check out A* pathfinding.

if you want your pathfinding to be simple, you can just use the MoveTo() function. games like Zombie Strike use this method

#5

yeah i don’t want to use MoveTo(), i’ll check out A* pathfinding, thanks.

#6

actually wait, is there any good tutorial on a* pathfinding? like making the nav path etc

#7

i don’t know about making a nav path, but here are some resources on a* pathfinding to help ya out