December 7th, 2021 Livestream Q&A: Why do single-player games get a server restart message?

December 7th, 2021 Livestream

Q&A: Why do single-player games get a server restart message?

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why do single-player games get a server restart message because the game is never really it's not really a single-player game, it is built for multiplayer in mind and that's that's why, like even if you play singer player we always create a multiplayer session for you just because if you're playing single player and then you realize like no I want my friend to join in, we've already like set up the work for the session so you can easily join in if we didn't have that in place then we would need to make like a separate system handling for when you're playing single player in a separate single in a separate system for handling when you're playing multiplayer and it's just like extra work for no reason, so that's why so you're technically always playing online you know but you're not really but you technically in the back end it's set up for that when you're playing and when I say back I mean in the game if you're hosting it yourself as a listen server