Dedicated Server?

[coolfarmer]

Will this game have a dedicated server software?

[Mr.McDuck]

Dedicated Servers are planned, but there is no ETA. Most likely close to version 1.0.

[{GFA}SkyRanger [GER]]

Thats bad. no dedicated server are same as "not playaple game" til then because if anyone has to be host is crap at all.

[MadDawg2552]

Originally posted by {GFA}SkyRanger GER:

Thats bad. no dedicated server are same as "not playaple game" til then because if anyone has to be host is crap at all.

What part of "servers are planned" means "no servers"?

[Stryker can has]

As Satisfactory devs have found, maintaining a dedicated server client while the game is still under heavy feature development can be... challenging. If it's planned for "close to 1.0", that's probably a good thing IMO.

[{GFA}SkyRanger [GER]]

Originally posted by MadDawg2552:

Originally posted by {GFA}SkyRanger GER:

Thats bad. no dedicated server are same as "not playaple game" til then because if anyone has to be host is crap at all.

What part of "servers are planned" means "no servers"?

Because "close to 1.0" menas the whole way the game is in EA, there wont be dedicasted servers and this will be a long time (may be several years). and for this time its like "no server".

[coolfarmer]

Yeah, I wish my friends and I could buy the game, but we can't. Each of us has different playtimes sometimes, so it's challenging to coordinate playing together. Additionally, we don't enjoy playing solo (I mean playing solo on the entire save).

So, they could potentially sell a lot more copies of this game, but without dedicated servers, it's impossible. Many games have had dedicated servers from their beginning, so why not?

Foundry has been available on Itch.io for many years, like at least 4 years. So yeah, it's time for them to make dedicated servers available.

[Ada Wong]

please add this, i do not have any friends playing this game, i could only solo play :(

[Random Event]

My friends and I have found that dedicated servers are really the only way to go for us.
We play at different times and timezones as well as getting together for joint fun.

These days we are starting to avoid multiplayer if only coop as it simply does not allow us to multi play.

Game already looking good though.

Wish you the best.

[Soushi [SSRB]]

Originally posted by Renato Lyra:

please add this, i do not have any friends playing this game, i could only solo play :(

This is not what it means, you'll be able to play just fine solo. It's nice to have, but far from a 'must'-feature.

[Gulag Gamer]

Originally posted by Mr.McDuck:

Dedicated Servers are planned, but there is no ETA. Most likely close to version 1.0.

No dedicated server, no buy.

There's no way this is playable at scale off a friend's PC unless he has NASA CPU budget. Dedicated server, even if wonky, should have been available considerably sooner.

[Tom Cruise]

Originally posted by ๖ۣۜMr ๖ۣۜSchadenfreude:

Originally posted by Mr.McDuck:

Dedicated Servers are planned, but there is no ETA. Most likely close to version 1.0.

No dedicated server, no buy.

There's no way this is playable at scale off a friend's PC unless he has NASA CPU budget. Dedicated server, even if wonky, should have been available considerably sooner.

Yeah i was wondering about that too because no way i can run a game server in addition to the game on my pc, did a quick google search and it seems they already have an official partner where you can rent a server on launch.
https://pockethost.app/en/foundry-game-server-hosting/

[Mr.McDuck]

We will launch with dedicated servers into early access, although they are in an experimental state. We are aware of the importance of dedicated servers and will have high priority on fixing any issue should something arise. So far it's smooth, but it's one of the most recently completed features and it has not received the same amount of testing as the regular game has.

As for the server helping with performance: The game is simulated deterministically on each client and a server is not helping you to reduce the load. This type of architecture ensures a smoother multiplayer experience, especially once the factories get large.

Running the server on the same machine as your game will cost more resources (especially RAM), but if you have enough cores on your CPU it shouldn't be significant.

[coolfarmer]

Originally posted by Mr.McDuck:

We will launch with dedicated servers into early access, although they are in an experimental state. We are aware of the importance of dedicated servers and will have high priority on fixing any issue should something arise. So far it's smooth, but it's one of the most recently completed features and it has not received the same amount of testing as the regular game has.

As for the server helping with performance: The game is simulated deterministically on each client and a server is not helping you to reduce the load. This type of architecture ensures a smoother multiplayer experience, especially once the factories get large.

Running the server on the same machine as your game will cost more resources (especially RAM), but if you have enough cores on your CPU it shouldn't be significant.

This is cool, I'm looking foward to play this game with my friends.
Count me in. Thanks for implementing dedicated servers! :)

[theplake]

hows the app id for dedicated server?

[Razor]

2915550