It can still be done, but there’s no like… industry standard for how to build a backend afaik? And cloud compute is still relatively new, all things considered. Not to mention all the CSPs kind of want to lock you into their ecosystem

Reason #1 we discourage people from making MMOs.

You are the exception, not the rule

The number of people that track objects in LEO just… because it’s fun? You don’t put a silent satellite in space anymore.

Wasn’t there a belief that Saturn’s rings were Jesus Christ’s ascended foreskin?

Yeah, that’s… people need to stop prescribing Linux to solve everything from minor glitches ti major cloud outages to marital issues and erectile dysfunction…

Could airgap it, but then you’ve airgapped it…

I fell asleep to that by myself.

Getting digital cable in my bedroom as a kid was both a blessing and a curse, and I listened to Michio Kaku a lot. Didn’t understand half of it, but hey, it was cool.

Keep in mind, this was when I was a kid and thought all adults were good people and didn’t understand that Kaku and Tyson were dickheads or that Discovery Science was junk food borderline scifi.

Wait’ll you see the War on Drugs.

Good on you for being graceful about it.

Bad troll is bad

To be fair, I did choose Sky specifically because it sounded like Scarlett.

Ooohhh… new types of numbers…

Tonight, we feast…

Im not a violent man.

but?

……

So forgive me for not knowing the term, but there’s a type of attack that waits to send commands until after packets have been received whose data provides an advantage. For instance, a bot could simply wait until it receives the position of your opponent, calculate how far to turn the player to aim, then tell the server “I’ve moved the mouse in this vector”

A bit like playing rock-paper-scissors, but waiting until you opponent shows what they’ve chosen before making your own decision.

I can’t answer for Psionix, because… I don’t work for Psionix. But having worked on other projects, I can tell you that a fully-authoritative server (that’s the word you’re looking for, btw) is not the end-all-be-all of anticheat. Every game has different levels of mechanical complexity, logical complexity, and a myriad of other variables that factor into what type of architecture is used in online games, and that a fully-authoritative server not only isn’t feasible for all projects, but also isn’t a silver bullet against cheaters.

I do not like this, Sam I Am

Same with any game, “how hard is it to detect cheaters‽”. Turns out, very.

Being an engineer, you’ll know that the amount of shit that has to go right to get a single pixel to glow is pretty crazy, some when armchair dickheads that have never written so much as a Hello World say shit like “it’s not that hard!”, it just…

…listen, I’m not a violent man…

Horizon 5, Steam deck

The numbers have no conviction. The numbers are objective.