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Dedicated servers ever happening?

I know they're expensive to acquire and all but I ask because of the other game supposedly not doing so hot in early access. If the game failed would it be possible for those servers to be used for dbd? Second thought here but why give dedicated servers to the new game we don't know will be a success or not? Why not give it to the established game that has fans asking for the servers to make the game less frustrating?

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  • Master
    Master Member Posts: 10,200
    edited September 2018

    Maybe, maybe not (emphasis on maybe not)

    Servers dont cost fortune anymore with nowadays technology, you can even rent them and its really cheap.
    The problem is the netcode, the way DBD is coded it doesnt work with dedicated servers and they would have to redo all their spaghetti code, tahts why its most likely never gonna happen

  • Grey87
    Grey87 Member Posts: 346

    You can't just simply "give" dedicated servers...

  • circeseye
    circeseye Member Posts: 6

    dedicated servers will NEVER happen...the game isnt designed around it and they have said a lot of times NO

  • White_Owl
    White_Owl Member Posts: 3,786

    @Grey87 said:
    You can't just simply "give" dedicated servers...

    What? Sure you can. Here's one just for you

  • Tsulan
    Tsulan Member Posts: 15,095
    White_Owl said:

    @Grey87 said:
    You can't just simply "give" dedicated servers...

    What? Sure you can. Here's one just for you

    Game might be hardcoded for peer2peer. So simply connecting servers won't do it. 
  • Global
    Global Member Posts: 770

    @Tsulan said:
    White_Owl said:

    @Grey87 said:

    You can't just simply "give" dedicated servers...

    What? Sure you can. Here's one just for you

    Game might be hardcoded for peer2peer. So simply connecting servers won't do it. 

    not to mention servers are extremely expensive and if the game were to die within a short time of buying them it would of just been wasting money plus P2P can take a game far past its life span as you dont need connected servers to play.

  • Tsulan
    Tsulan Member Posts: 15,095
    Global said:

    @Tsulan said:
    White_Owl said:

    @Grey87 said:

    You can't just simply "give" dedicated servers...

    What? Sure you can. Here's one just for you

    Game might be hardcoded for peer2peer. So simply connecting servers won't do it. 

    not to mention servers are extremely expensive and if the game were to die within a short time of buying them it would of just been wasting money plus P2P can take a game far past its life span as you dont need connected servers to play.

    Exactly. And even if we would get dedicated servers, someone at would complain about high ping, because he simply lives to far away from the servers. Things could get worse. 
  • Tradebaron
    Tradebaron Member Posts: 135
    I mean, I disagree. Dedicated servers are a better investment for a game. Look at For Honor, it was P2P and had the exact same issues with bad connectivity. Refusal to go dedicated servers is a bad idea. We won't get them anytime soon but we should get them eventually. Even if it takes a year or two. But to completely avoid it, it's just bad design.
  • Grey87
    Grey87 Member Posts: 346

    @Tradebaron said:
    I mean, I disagree. Dedicated servers are a better investment for a game. Look at For Honor, it was P2P and had the exact same issues with bad connectivity. Refusal to go dedicated servers is a bad idea. We won't get them anytime soon but we should get them eventually. Even if it takes a year or two. But to completely avoid it, it's just bad design.

    You seriously comparing Ubisoft to BHVR...?

  • Tradebaron
    Tradebaron Member Posts: 135
    I'm saying that as an example it helped the game which was dying. 

    If I recall didnt the F13 devs just recently roll out dedicated servers? Amidst financial issues and essentially unable to do anything monetarily with the game in the future. Is that a more palpable comparison for you? 
  • Boss
    Boss Member Posts: 13,616
    edited September 2018

    Though i'd love it, it'd require a good amount of people and time.
    And there's always something fucky about this game, so no can do.

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  • SnakeSound222
    SnakeSound222 Member Posts: 4,467
    F13, a game that has a low playerbase and cannot have any new content added to it, just released dedicated servers. If F13 and Gun can support them, then DbD and BHVR can too. 
  • Usui
    Usui Member Posts: 531

    @SnakeSound222 said:
    F13, a game that has a low playerbase and cannot have any new content added to it, just released dedicated servers. If F13 and Gun can support them, then DbD and BHVR can too. 

    I saw that and laughed..

  • Nightmare247
    Nightmare247 Member Posts: 187

    @SnakeSound222 said:
    F13, a game that has a low playerbase and cannot have any new content added to it, just released dedicated servers. If F13 and Gun can support them, then DbD and BHVR can too. 

    While they can, it just is not as easy as snapping your fingers and poof dedicated servers.

    This game would take a huge amount of recoding for P2P to be removed. I am not saying I have many issues with dedicated servers being brought in, but I have a huge issue with them gutting the code which will probably break quite a bit more in this game than intended.

  • Mister_Holdout
    Mister_Holdout Member Posts: 3,144

    Eh, I wouldn't hold my breath on dedicated servers.

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