Helldivers 2 is off to a record-breaking start on Steam, with the game’s concurrent player count eclipsing that of all other PlayStation PC ports combined.
Exactly! Designing a truly horizontally scalable system for something like this is damn hard and requires pretty specialized knowledge. It’s often the case that it simply isn’t possible to scale up the first version of some system you come up with since you may need to eg. completely rethink how clients communicate, or how you manage state updates and propagation, or need to rethink the consistency model you use to store the state over multiple nodes etc.
Exactly! Designing a truly horizontally scalable system for something like this is damn hard and requires pretty specialized knowledge. It’s often the case that it simply isn’t possible to scale up the first version of some system you come up with since you may need to eg. completely rethink how clients communicate, or how you manage state updates and propagation, or need to rethink the consistency model you use to store the state over multiple nodes etc.