What it Looks Like When 999 People Play a Video Game at Once

If you remember 2011, there was an ambitious idea to build a first-person shooter in which 1000 people could play against each other. https://kotaku.com/would-you-play-a-shooter-against-999-other-people-5779320 Well, over the weekend that game – Man vs Machine – gave the 1000-player mark a damn good shake.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); Sadly, it “only” managed 999 players at once, but really, I’m sure a single extra person wouldn’t have drastically changed the chaos you see in the video up top. While it looks like madness, this is [[link]] exactly what I want to see more of in online games. The more chaotic and ungainly, the better. Seeing something like this working as a First World War game, or involving some [[link]] kind [[link]] of medieval battle, would be insane And hopefully seeing such a thing might not be too far off! The creators of the technology underpinning the one-off experiment, PikkoServer, say ” Our goal now is to make this technology available to developers worldwide”, so fingers crossed that becomes a reality. [thanks for the video, Tony!]