News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users. Parent comment

Re:Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users by AlphaSite on Friday February 09, 2018 @05:03PM (#16344235)
MAG somehow managed to be a competitive FPS with 256 players back in 2008ish, its not an impossible battle.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users by jsmeaton on Friday February 09, 2018 @05:07PM (#16344271)
I think MAG was using clever tricks. There were multiple “zones” per battle, and I think each of those zones was a separate instance with some coordination between.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users by xchaotic on Thursday February 15, 2018 @11:50AM (#16385483)
to be fair you could apply the same tricks to any Battle Royale type game
[ Parent | on HN ]