Comment by apitman

3 months ago

I really hope we see a resurgence in local-first networking. My wife and I can't even play a LAN game of Age of Empires 2 on a plane unless the flight has wifi.

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zelphirkalt  3 months ago

AoE2 is not known for great network code, so I think the hopes for that specifically are pretty slim.

  • apitman  3 months ago

    The irony is that the netcode is excellent now, but locked to proprietary platforms.

    • zelphirkalt  3 months ago

      Is it really excellent? I mean, the game still FPS drops, when only one person in a multiplayer match is lagging. But maybe that could be attributed to engine problems, rather than network code issues.

      The rest of the code seems not too great either, considering the humongous system requirements, compared to the historical versions of the game. If you ask me, they could have kept it 2D sprites and it would have been completely fine. But they had to go 3D ...

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