The studio behind Dune: Awakening has reassured gamers it’s taking precautions to make sure server points are minimal at launch.
In a prolonged Steam submit explaining varied facets of the sport, Funcom addressed the chance that the sport might undergo the identical destiny as different in style MMOs and change into overcrowded at launch, resulting in gamers being locked out or recreation crashes.
The studio famous that it’s dealt with the launches of quite a few MMOs prior to now and that it subsequently has previous expertise to attract on, that means it’s ready for a attainable early surge in gamers.
“We definitely count on heavy masses at launch, and that’s the reason we’re getting ready accordingly,” it mentioned. “Servers (Hagga Basins) that refill are unimaginable to utterly keep away from, identical as with all video games that function with the populations Dune: Awakening does.
“However, relaxation assured, there might be hundreds of servers grouped collectively in lots of of Worlds out there at launch. They are going to be unfold out throughout the globe, providing low-latency connections in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia … if we see that we’re nearing capability, we can spin up extra.
“This isn’t our first rodeo, we’ve launched a number of MMOs and survival video games over the previous 25 years, and we’ve a strong set of instruments and processes in place, managed by an skilled reside operations crew.”
The studio careworn that whereas every Hagga Basin server can help 40 concurrent gamers, it would help a number of hundred folks selecting it as their house, as a result of “the way in which populations ebb and circulate over the course of the day” makes this attainable.
“This has been rigorously examined throughout closed beta, and we’ve techniques in place that can limit too many characters being created on a server that’s changing into too in style, to reduce the prospect of servers changing into full,” it defined.
“As with all video games working with populations like this, that doesn’t imply servers won’t ever attain the 40-player concurrency cap. If that occurs, you’ll be a part of a server queue when logging in. The time period ‘server queue’ isn’t utilized in optimistic context, however to us it’s a quality-of-life addition.
“Generally, survival video games don’t supply this, and you might be left having to attend and hope you’ll be able to click on quick sufficient when a slot opens up. By including a server queue performance, you possibly can merely click on as soon as and relaxation simple realizing that you’ll get in when a slot turns into out there to you. Once more, due to how participant populations ebb and circulate all through the day, you shouldn’t have to attend lengthy earlier than being let in.”
VGC lately went hands-on with Dune: Awakening for eight hours, saying: “We left our day-long play session with Dune Awakening impressed by its authenticity and concepts, genuinely wanting extra. Nonetheless, as identified in our Exoborne hands-on, these kinds of video games are all the time extra enjoyable in a bustling preview occasion surroundings, and it’s by no means been tougher to inform which video games are going to achieve the tough fashionable video games market.
