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Ever want to play a FPS online with thousands of other players? Well now it's a possibility with Microsoft's new "DonnyBrook" system!
darkspirefilms.com blog wrote:
This system allows people to play new fps games on a massive scale. We’re talking about hundreds to thousands of people all shooting at each other at the same time… Sound fun to you? Sounds fun to me!
The video below describes it as Helms Deep from Lord of the Rings but with every orc, every elf, every person on the battlefield being controlled by a real person online. Now this would be a huge problem because most people don’t have the upload bandwidth capacity to keep themselves up to date with everyone else on the map, but with this new system it is possible through “focus setsâ€
Focus sets refers to a new system by which the player gets more updates from players they have recently interacted with in the game. This way the players that you are fighting against will be lag free, while the players you aren’t fighting against will only be updating once every few frames.
This may lead to some questions, such as, Why aren’t the players who I am not focussing on lagging like crazy. This is fixed by another technique called “Guidable AIâ€
Guidable AI is a brilliant solution to this problem. At the most basic level, the Guidable AI emulates the people you are not focussed on in between the actual updates of the real player. Since this AI is locally being run, there will be no problems with bandwidth.
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