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  • AlmightyPharias's avatar
    AlmightyPharias
    7 years ago
    @xcr762 this goes to my first point that their servers has to first at least work properly... I know there are problems with them and I believe they are working on them in some way. However I dont believe 60hz will happen because its EA. But history shows that battlefield got such update from 16hz to 60hz so I might be wrong, hopefully
  • So_Uncivil1zed's avatar
    So_Uncivil1zed
    7 years ago

    I don't know anything about the prices of servers, but i guess they could rent servers. I mean PUBG//Fornite had better netcode/servers at lauch.
    Peolple seem not to care, but the effects on gameplay once you understand how a game works its enormous. It creates unfair gameplay. 

  • So_Uncivil1zed's avatar
    So_Uncivil1zed
    7 years ago

    The update only touches the client tickrate wich is useless without a server tickrate.

    At lauch we had :                    Client tickrate: 60    Server Tickrate: 20 (with packet split )

    They patch it to :                     Client tickrate: 20    Server Tickrate: 20 (with packet split )
    And now if i understand this : Client tickrate: 60     Server Tickrate:20  (with packet split ) with some netcode changes i hope ???

  • OneEyeYarric's avatar
    OneEyeYarric
    7 years ago
    @So_Uncivil1zed

    Yeah, some netcode changes would be ok^^.

    All I'm trying to say is even Fortnites Netcode was not the best at the start it will get better.

    (Fortnite may be a massive revenue generator but developer Epic Games isn't one to rest on its laurels. The game's net code has been tweaked ever so often for better performance. Starting at a tickrate (the rate at which the game is run on a server) as low as 8Hz Fortnite's patch 3.4 brought it up to 20Hz. After a number of upgrades and downgrades, Fortnite's tickrate is at a stable 30Hz minimum with the latest 4.2 patch. The client update rate has also been upped to 75/s from 50/s. However do these upgrades improve gameplay?

    According to YouTuber Battle(non)sense (via VG 247) tested this out with two PCs having a ping of 25ms to the same server to see how big the delay for each of them would be at different times of the day. Before this, Fortnite had a delay between 63ms to 70ms depending on what you're doing in the game. After the Fortnite patch 4.2 it dropped to an average of 20ms.)
    source: Gadgets 360/Battle(non)sense

  • So_Uncivil1zed's avatar
    So_Uncivil1zed
    7 years ago

    Sure for casual players it doesn't matter and i'm being picky. But I never enjoyed Fortinite, i'm use to games like Overwatch, csgo wich servers are pretty good.
    I have a 240hz monitor when i see 20hz server tickrate feelsbadman ^^ 

    But if I learn something in videogames today to stay popular and alive you need : An esport scene and a twich scene.

    Thing is bad servers are not Esport or stream friendly.

    But sure Respawn did a great job on gameplay.