A call for help! We need help stress testing our MMO but need more players

Feb 16, 2021 11:05 PM

GenesseeV

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A call for help! We need help stress testing our MMO but need more players

Hey hey, so I need a little help gathering some folks together to get a better idea on just how many concurrent players our servers can handle and am happy to give steam keys to anyone available this Wednesday at 4PM EST or Friday at 6PM . Groups are totally welcome so if you have a few friends you'd like to bring with you the more the merrier. I hope this doesn't come across spammy but we really need help getting more players in and I didn't know where else to go

Little backstory: We've been working on the game for 5 years now, it's an open world survival MMO, it's called Fractured Veil, it's on steam and is the real deal (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1128500/Fractured_Veil/). We think we can get 150-200 players on a server right now, maybe more now that we moved to a new 5950x machine but we've never been able to get more than 40-50 people on at any given time. It's harder than organizing a WoW raid with Leeroy Jenkins I swear.

Anyways I'd really really appreciate anything the community can do to spread the word and PM me here for the keys or leave a reaction to the poll we've got going on in our discord here: https://discord.gg/SdPzukcgPu

I didn't want this to come off too needy or anything so hopefully the mods don't mind me asking you guys for a favor like this every now and then. In addition to the keys if anyone here has any questions about game development, making a survival game or the meaning of life, I'm more than happy to do a little Q&A.

Thanks so much, can't tell you how much it would mean to our little team to get a bunch of you all in game this week or next!

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Dang. It looks fun but I only have last gen Xbox1 and 360.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm in!

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Awesome, excited to have you! Ping us on discord or just sign up via the form and leave a emoji on the poll and you're in

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I totally want a code but imgur fucked my messaging on here

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

haha, I think we can let it slide.. head over to the discord link and vote on the poll in #polls and you're in like Flynn!

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Is it this Friday/today? Then I'm down

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Commenting on mobile to remind myself to do this on my comp tomorrow

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This sounds like the game I’ve been waiting for o:

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

not satisfied with what else is out there?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I just enjoy survival games as well as zombie games a lot. It looks pretty sweet.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What is the name of this game?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm pretty new to games in general so I maybe could add something to the newer gamers out there? I definitely want to be a part of that

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sounds like fun.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Im down

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

played 4k hrs in rust 2.5k in ARK games like these are my bread and butter would like to try.

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

oh damn, it's the perspective that comes from that many hours that we are looking for.. Would love to get you in and hear your thoughts

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

signed up on the discord hopefully I get in :P

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If you reacted to the poll you are in like flynn

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

all done boss just had to eat dinner first.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I would be so down with that

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Awesome, we have a test tomorrow if you want to join or regular tests on wednesday. Hop in the discord server and sign up

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It doesn’t sound needy. I’m so down!

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

Can't wait to have you!

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I'm a big survivalist game player, would be open to try if you fine people allow me to.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

@GenesseeV I would be available tomorrow (Wed) at 4pm to give it a shot. Looks pretty interesting and the genre is right up my alley.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Say hi on our discord and tell us a bit about the other games you are playing, would love to hear what you'd like to see

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The times don't work for me but I'm happy to spread the word.

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Much appreciated! Come over to the discord either way and sign on up via the traditional form so we can get your name on the list for a key

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

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4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 6

I can do wed and Friday

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Yay! hop on to the discord, react to the poll in #polls and you are in like flynn!

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Stress test a game? I'm down for that.

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Wait! We don’t have to pay?!?

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

who doesn't like trying to break things?

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I literally work QA/QC for a living. I made a job of it!

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Why host your own servers vs hopping on to AWS/GCP/Azure? Cheaper and more powerful if you have the skills to deploy there.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Single threaded engines like UE4 means per core clock speed is crucial. AWS/GCP/Azure are not optimized for this kind of task

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

especially when you take sustained CPU usage into account where our cpu is at 80-100% 24/7. Check out VPSBenchmarks for sustained speeds

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Best hosts are Genesis and Vultr right now, both we know and work with and their top servers are 100-200% slower than the 5950x

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And on GCP/AWS our bill would be 5-10x higher per month for equivalent speeds

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Fair. Wasn’t sure if you were techie but clearly you are. Haha

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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