This is very useful on larger servers which can have tens to hundreds of players online at once, as nobody has to wait for one single person so they can play the game. This means that if you have an older computer, a server will no longer wait for you to catch up in processing. With Factorio 0.14.0, Factorio servers no longer paused the game for all players if one player’s computer takes too long to process an update. It also allowed multiple server instances to run at the same time on one machine, which is very useful in some cases. This meant that servers could now run on machines without GPUs, which greatly reduced the cost of Factorio servers and improved accessibility. In Factorio 0.12.0, as a major feature, headless servers were added. A lot of work has been put into multiplayer development for 500 players to be able to connect at once. There was also this bug which didn’t allow for three or more people to connect at once - unlike this 500+ player multiplayer session nearly six years later. It was of course fixed, not even three hours later, in typical Wube fashion. When the first multiplayer was released, there were quite a few bugs, such as this bug which didn’t allow multiplayer games to last more than 20 seconds.
This multiplayer was unlike the one you see today, you couldn’t for example easily ‘Join Friend’ through Steam or use the server browser - you needed to know the exact IP address of the server. In October 2014 with Factorio 0.11.0, multiplayer was introduced into the game though it has been worked on since Factorio 0.9.4. I will be explaining the usage of fully deterministic and lockstep algorithms, amongst other things.
In today’s edition of Alt-F4, I will briefly explain the history of multiplayer, and then I will take a deeper dive into explaining how multiplayer works technically. Most of us have probably connected to a Factorio server at least once, to play with friends or just check out some else’s builds.
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If you’ve ever wondered what a desync is or how the game manages to handle hundreds of players and many thousands of entities at once, please feel free to dive right in! Factorio Servers oof2win2 In this week’s 26th issue of Alt-F4 (half a year of issues!), oof2win2 goes into the Factorio multiplayer and explains some of the technical machinations behind it.
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