Is this game going to have region-locks?

[Reuben]

Plenty of other RTS games currently suffer from language barriers and lag due to being matched with others on the opposite side of the globe. Will Stormgate also suffer from this?

[FrostGiantGerald]

Our novel approach to global matchmaking with globally distributed servers has allowed us to bring together players from different regions for playtesting with solid results. You can read more about it here:

https://blog.hathora.dev/launching-stormgates-open-demo-during-steams-next-fest/

[Reuben]

Originally posted by FrostGiantGerald:

Our novel approach to global matchmaking with globally distributed servers has allowed us to bring together players from different regions for playtesting with solid results. You can read more about it here:

https://blog.hathora.dev/launching-stormgates-open-demo-during-steams-next-fest/

Thanks for the reply, this is an interesting article and rollback netcode seems great. Will we be able to specify what region we want to matchmake in or will it be fully automated and would we be able to matchmake with friends from other continents?

Also, would a localisation matchmaking filter be impractical (i.e. English, Spanish, French, Russian, Chinese, etc.)? I've lost a lot of team games in a few RTS titles because we couldn't coordinate properly versus pre-made teams that spoke the same language.