December 7th, 2021 Livestream Q&A: Why is the Dedicated Server player limited to 4 officially?

December 7th, 2021 Livestream

Q&A: Why is the Dedicated Server player limited to 4 officially?

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why is it I guess ever play limited to four officially because that's that's the official limit we we have not built the game to, like the game is designed for four people max you can obviously have as many as you want but like that's that's, that's the limit that we set because we we we can't like if people find issues with the game, that is due to like you being like 80 people or whatever like we can't really like you know put effort into fixing that because that's that's the constraint we have from from when you're hosting yourself you can like four players is really stretching it even and you know you can technically have more on dedicated servers but if we allow more people on dedicated servers specifically then we're really saying that that message that like hey the game should be able to have more than four people in it and that's not true for that case when it's not on dedicated servers, so yeah four is always been our like goal of like amount of players, to have in the game so that's just, the reason why it is that it is unreal engine says up to 128 they light unreal engine doesn't specify a limit a real engine just says like people can like you know as many people you can have like an mmo in unreal engine, it's not probably not recommended you totally can like there's no limit really in andrew linen I don't think so at least, at least not apparently joining or like a players connecting