The Swedish ontwikkelstudio MuchDifferent has set a new world record set with the total number of players online at the same time is in a first-person-shooter. In a game of Man vs. Machine remained the counter stuck at 999. The old record was 600.
In the last weekend managed to MuchDifferent manage to have a potty in the by them developed browser-based game Man vs. Machine to play with a total of 999 players. Although the goal of the developer was to have 1000 players to pick up, meant the number of 999 players, a large improvement of the old record of 600 players, in the hands of Planetside.
According to MuchDifferent-director Christian Lönnholm continued the performance of the game, despite the high number of players, well. There would be no talk of lag or low responsiveness. Lönnholm says in his blog that an independent ‘industry professional’ the data has passed on to Guinness World Record, and that record is now approved and officially counts as a world record.
The test was part of the ongoing work that MuchDifferent to supply the technology and the resources for creating online games to improve. According to Lönnholm ran Man vs. Machine is technically good, but brought the large number of players balansproblemen. The developer applied the balance between the two teams more than once, but failed to find a balance where team Man and team Machine is about as strong, thus Lönnholm in his blog.
Images of the game Man vs. Machine with 999 players