Question is in title, are there any tips to handling games with large amounts of players?
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What exactly do you mean by “optimize?” There’s tons of posts detailing how to decrease lag:
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I mean decrease network load and increase FPS on servers with a lot of players on it
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Depends on what kind of game it is. Is it a lobby/hub that teleports a few people to another game (like a round and party based game like DOORS) or is a game like Parkour of Flood Escape 2 (chaos mode) that is just the base game with all the mechanics and models?
Idk if that makes any sense, but I am just trying to figure out what might need to be optimized.
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Let’s say shooter, where 50-100 players fight
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Network load is more of a Roblox based thing, you can not control it. Especially when you are allowing people from all different kinds of regions with all kind of pings into your server. That server will cap itself off and manage that load by its self. (Also FPS is more user based and what computer they are using, not really much you can do about that either.) Its been that way since way before 2017 even. The only thing you can do is lower amount of people that can be in a server at once.
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Most shooter games cap at 25-30 (Arsenal, etc.) players, they never go above 50. (The ones I have played on Roblox anyways)
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I mean, there are posts about using binary buffing to optimize remote events, and network bandwidth is usually the problem that many games have
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Thats true, bandwidth is based on what your network provider gives you.
Im honestly not sure how you can manage network settings for other players within your game without accessing their computer and router.
And again, the bandwidth Roblox gives off is controlled by Roblox themselves to prevent server crashes and overload.
Or I could be completely wrong, I’m just going off of past things I have read and encountered in my games, but I’m not a full-time programmer either.
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Astro force devs optimized their bandwidth by sending less data over network, but is there anything i can do to optimize it more?
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Use less parts, minimize unnecessary textures and part movements, try not to use too much shaders/lighting effects, when in a round for the shooter game make sure all other maps are not loaded in, except for the map that is currently being played on. These are the kind of things that I do to help minimize lag/help optimize my games, which may help with bandwidth and network because then it will be less to load over servers/network.
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Do you think use of unreliable remote events will help? also should i use parrarel luau for raycasting every heartbeat? i’ve heard it’s nice to optimize stuff like that but used it only once few months ago
I just don’t think it is even possible to get more than 50 players moving in an empty baseplate constantly moving, we will have to wait until Roblox gives us a way to chose what instance to replicate or not
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It allows us, we can move stuff to server storage and server script service, it’s kindof pointless to not replicate workspace as player cannot see part, player also can’t interact with it and ect.
Right now you can’t really disable replication of player2 to player1
You can, you simply need to replace core scripts, but still i don’t think player characters is the main problem, i have bullet system and even without server-sided visualization, it may lag a lot
Yeah but I’m not rescripting entire Roblox character system that the only reason in every games I make ,I don’t put more than 20 players.
That use 99% of my network
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Hmmm, do you think i can optimize characters in roblox?
Only way is to make your custom one
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Also, do you have any ideas how can i optimize bullets, simulated using heartbeat?