However, the Just Cause 2 engine is accessible enough that a concerted reverse-engineering effort by one small indie group of five programmers over several months resulted in a playable mod which this weekend is undergoing another of its periodic open public beta tests.Īnd what a public test it is. The multiplayer mod, running on a single server, can host an amazing 1,800 players at once, a limit which mod creator Foote says doesn't appear to be stressing the server hardware at all, and the way seems to be clear for the single-server player count to be pushed even higher. The mod isn't a persistant, sharded universe like World of Warcraft, but rather more like the individual worlds of Minecraft servers-each server is its own isolated instance of the island of Panau. The Red Bull article is quick to point out that while many MMORPG-type games have player caps far exceeding 1,800, there are no sandboxes or shooters with limits even approaching that. #Just cause 2 mods multiplayer Pc#Įven Grand Theft Auto IV, which unlike its predecessors does have a multiplayer mode, is capped at only 32 players for the PC version. The article speculates that such caps are in place because of political and economic realities behind producing a modern AAA title which must run on consoles and PCs both.
“We don’t have any schedules or design plans that we have to stick to.
"I think if game studios had that same freedom, we would see much more unique content coming out.” We have freedom of imagination,” Foote says.
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