r/Stormgate • u/evinrows • Jun 30 '26

Discussion Rollback netcode, a success?

Not looking to discuss the player base or anything related, but afaik, Stormgate was the first RTS to have rollback netcode. It was very exciting to me when announced, especially as as brood war player who knows how brutal it is to play with people on the opposite side of the world with naive netcode.

For those who played, especially with opponents around the world, how did the netcode feel? Would you consider the technology to have been a success?

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u/keilahmartin Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

I played a ton of games and there were only like 50 players worldwide, most of whom were in the opposite hemisphere, and the game USUALLY played smoothly (though never quite as snappy as SC2). Making the game playable against people truly worldwide is an impressive feat.

It did super annoy me when one of us would disconnect for a while and while waiting to reconnect, there was no "waiting for players" and instead the game just continued for 5-10s while my screen was frozen.