Did you check out any of Camelot Unchained’s alpha test over the weekend? If not, you missed a solid round of testing, according to today’s news update. Mark Jacobs writes that despite a snag brought about by the game’s cloud-based servers running out of hard drive space, the rest of the weekend test was basically flawless for nearly 60 hours.
“As I’ve said before, and I’m not sorry to repeat myself, our client/server tech is more reliable, for this stage of development, than any other game I have ever worked on,” Jacobs explains. “This is by no means meant to discredit the work I or other teams have done before, because frankly, the Dark Age of Camelot team was great and true, and the game was also remarkably solid, even during beta. However, the difference is that this time we have built our own rendering engine, using a physics system that’s usually client-side on a server, and have client/networking code that can already handle larger-scale battles without it turning into a slideshow (and the battles it can handle are only getting larger!).”
