Can probably try to help shed some light on a few things if that would help!
We use the absolute fastest, highest-grade server hardware available from our cloud provider partners. The math required when you're talking about networking 100 players and replicating the incredible speed of building/destruction so that everyone around you can see what you're doing in game and vice-versa requires a heck of a lot of "horsepower". As ever-faster processors become available in the numbers that allow us to use them globally we're constantly ensuring we're only using the best of the best. To help give you a sense of scale, to support Fortnite we use tens thousands of simultaneous processors spread across the globe in more than two dozen different data centers.
To the question of "why doesn't Epic just build more servers in X location?" The simplest answer is that we don't have the experience building and operating an international network of data centers that our cloud par...
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