[2021] Official Respawn Q&A on new Servers, Netcode, and Tickrate Dev Blog

Originally posted by casev7

The most common issue I see are no-fill of squad members. Is there any chance of having the game bail back to matchmaking if we end up without a full team?

Originally posted by TheHeuman

In the article you mention that getting to the root of packet loss/big variations in ping, is difficult and requires users to run "network traces". Is this something that is available for all players or just the pros and content creators?

If its available to everyone, how would one go about reporting that they have a netcode issue and possibly have respawn track down the cause of the problem?

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Originally posted by Schadenfreude11

Arena matches will probably be better connection-wise just by virtue of having fewer players. It's a lot easier to match 6 players of similar skill with a good connection to a common server than to do the same for 60.

Originally posted by XKM5543

Really appreciate the insight behind the curtain on some of these issues. I think that this level of transparency and communication does wonders to keep the community from feeling like they’re yelling into a void when facing frustrations.

I know it’s mentioned as a future topic in the post, but the current DDOS epidemic (especially on console) deserves the same level of attention, without waiting ages for a response. This has been going on for several seasons now and reached a peak in s8. On console, the game is borderline unplayable above diamond queues due to 50% of lobbies getting DDOS’d. Banning these individuals doesn’t seem like enough, this is not a problem most of the player-base sees impacting similar games, and some insight on why this is a unique problem with Apex would be appreciated, as I’m sure the team is (hopefully) working to resolve this behind the scenes instead of focusing on delayed bans.

Originally posted by TheMilkMan0907

Since Apex legends has just reached 100 million players. Where are the servers for Africa?? We've been playing the game with 190ms.

Originally posted by Jestersage

All I can say is.... thanks. But I still have my comments:

Regarding ticks: would you mind explaining why we cannot use Battlefield series (which is also published by EA) or even other games that have high number of players and claim to have high tickrate servers? Is it due to the lower TTK means they don't have to process as many information overall?

Regarding the walls-hide situation: Wouldn't it be okay to just go with the flow and award Low-Ping Players? I mean it was the way since Quakeworld (yes, I am old), where having better IRL equipment will give you advantages. (And in fact you acknowledge quite a bit of games did that)

Originally posted by Jestersage

All I can say is.... thanks. But I still have my comments:

Regarding ticks: would you mind explaining why we cannot use Battlefield series (which is also published by EA) or even other games that have high number of players and claim to have high tickrate servers? Is it due to the lower TTK means they don't have to process as many information overall?

Regarding the walls-hide situation: Wouldn't it be okay to just go with the flow and award Low-Ping Players? I mean it was the way since Quakeworld (yes, I am old), where having better IRL equipment will give you advantages. (And in fact you acknowledge quite a bit of games did that)

Originally posted by -BINK2014-

Probably a stupid question, but have you playtested the mode personally?

Curious to hear your impressions on it compared to BR.

I'm excited as hell for it ever since the leaks. 😁

Originally posted by KrimSoN1648

Yes. Higher tickrate=more demanding on bandwidth. FPS further increases this figure.

Originally posted by NeonAnderson

As part of the blog post you mention about balancing the experience for both the "low" and the "high" ping person. But one situation I am wondering about if Respawn will do anything about are people with ping so bad that all other players in the match literally see them teleport and cannot hit them as a result as they are teleporting from location to location across your screen. Is Respawn looking into this and going to resolve this issue?

Originally posted by piercecraft

With SIDs, does that also mean it's possible to transfer a game instance to a different server on the same rack? For example, if a lobby is slow-mo and its detected, could there be a system put in place to transfer the game to server 3 if server 7 is lagging? Are there any roadblocks that would prevent that, or can the lobby just be paused for the time being while the game instance loads on a different server and redirecting player traffic to that server? Could be a really cool way to prevent slow-mo lobbies from happening entirely because they're extremely frustrating to get in ranked and just lose 60RP for something that wasn't your fault. Really happy about all the interesting new tech going into helping the server side!

Originally posted by eagles310

Is the Battle(non)sensevideo still relevant to this day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PfFPW9a90w

Originally posted by -BINK2014-

Off-topic:

• What's a Lead Engineer's Mains in Apex?

Originally posted by Lex_Loewenherz

I had 1 game with around 30 package loss last week, every enemy I had did not even shot me, they were standing still for 1 second every 5 seconds and my hits to them would count as normal hits. So even if the enemy was standing still (which was clearly because of my connection not because of the movement of him) my dmg was being registered. I can only imagine that I teleported and lasered like crazy for the others...

It felt like a big advantage but it only occurred once and could very well be an on-time thing, but I wanted to tell you about it.

Originally posted by Mist_n_Vapor

I think they were asking about which legends you main lol

Originally posted by jeesh101

With the introduction of streaming services like Stadia, xCloud etc, can you see this having an effect on how online-centric games like Apex work, and are designed, in the future?

Would imagine it opens the door for games to be designed with a vastly bigger scope in mind, be it more players or more advanced mechanics, as it effectively removes the client from the equation which formed a lot of discussion in today's blog post. Keen to hear your thoughts on that from a tech standpoint.

Second, not a question, but thank you for all the hard work you and the rest of the team put into the game, and for the blog post today. I love the game, and I can really tell how passionate you all are about it which is great to see. Think it's really cool you're willing to talk at length about the behind-the-scenes systems and the decision making around them. I bet there were some awkward conversations in the office about posting it!