Destiny, Social Gaming, Shared World, and Numbers

by kapowaz, Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 03:36 (3975 days ago) @ Jillybean

Is this guy just sitting in his bunker waiting for every player to come past? What happens if two people come past at once? This reminds me of when my sis and I would play co-op in Halo and run to trigger the cutscene so it would be 'our' Chief who was getting the canon plot points.

From a technical standpoint this has already been solved some time ago in MMOs through instancing (and what is called, in WoW-parlance ‘phasing’); each player is only seeing their version of events; sometimes the game will hide the other nearby players for the duration of an event, or maybe they'll be visible too, but in their game they'll be seeing their own instance of the event. I'd expect Bungie to be doing something similar.


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