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The DonnyBrook System

Ever want to play a FPS online with thousands of other players? Well now it's a possibility with Microsoft's new "DonnyBrook" system.

  • Whiteguy
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  • Date 9/11/2007 2:03:15 PM
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Whiteguy : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

Whiteguy

11 votes NegativePositive

805 days 17 hours ago...

Despite problems with bandwidth, Microsoft seems to be creating a new technology code named “DonnyBrook”

This system allows people to play new fps games on a massive scale. We’re talking about hundreds to thousands of people all shooting at each other at the same time… Sound fun to you? Sounds fun to me!

The video below describes it as Helms Deep from Lord of the Rings but with every orc, every elf, every person on the battlefield being controlled by a real person online. Now this would be a huge problem because most people don’t have the upload bandwidth capacity to keep themselves up to date with everyone else on the map, but with this new system it is possible through “focus sets”

Focus sets refers to a new system by which the player gets more updates from players they have recently interacted with in the game. This way the players that you are fighting against will be lag free, while the players you aren’t fighting against will only be updating once every few frames.

This may lead to some questions, such as, Why aren’t the players who I am not focussing on lagging like crazy. This is fixed by another technique called “Guidable AI”

Guidable AI is a brilliant solution to this problem. At the most basic level, the Guidable AI emulates the people you are not focussed on in between the actual updates of the real player. Since this AI is locally being run, there will be no problems with bandwidth.

Big_Boss : LVL 18: VP 2.7: said:

Big_Boss

5 votes NegativePositive

805 days 16 hours ago...

the biggest fps ive seen is novalogic's joint operations where 150 people can play in 1 server. the levels where fuckin HUGE!! i never found the boundaries on a map for that game

BurstAero : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

BurstAero

5 votes NegativePositive

805 days 16 hours ago...

This will be fuckin awesome

TriMeFoo : LVL 23: VP 3.2: said:

TriMeFoo

6 votes NegativePositive

805 days 13 hours ago...

I was wondering what happened to that chick when she lost her show on G4

tokentiki : LVL 45: VP 5: said:

tokentiki

2 votes NegativePositive

805 days 8 hours ago...

thats awsome but the amount of polygons on average charactors are gonna cause problems with framerate

h0ser : LVL 16: VP 2.5: said:

h0ser

5 votes NegativePositive

805 days 7 hours ago...

soudns like there is a lot of bugs to work out before this becomes viable. for instance, only have 4 or 5 people in your focus doesn't help when you get ambushed. It could be a completely different person ambushing you from nowhere and u'd have no prior warning becasue they actions wouldn't be accurately portrayed, but instead simulated by a bot. It'll really throw me off, esp in a big battle where there are 100's of poeple around you, but only 5 are in focus as real time players.

MAD-FING : LVL 28: VP 3.7: said:

MAD-FING

2 votes NegativePositive

805 days 6 hours ago...

interesting idea

.c0Ne. : LVL 19: VP 2.8: said:

.c0Ne.

-6 votes NegativePositive

805 days 2 hours ago...

Even with this tech.......game arena will always be shit

melovethetoys : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

melovethetoys

2 votes NegativePositive

804 days 21 hours ago...

What's the point of focusing on 5 people if they are considering of having thousands of people playing at the same time. It's not like you'll be running into those 5 guys all the time, it's like finding 5 friends in a concert.

webduck : LVL 15: VP 2.4: said:

webduck

0 votes NegativePositive

803 days 17 hours ago...

in time we'll all have better upstream making this even better ;)

thattechguy : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

thattechguy

0 votes NegativePositive

803 days 15 hours ago...

They shortened the field of view too much. Anybody else notice how black it was in the distance? Good luck sniping.

darkjasper : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

darkjasper

1 votes NegativePositive

803 days 13 hours ago...

AHAHAAHHA, Im a ms fan boy but hell, did she just ask if it was going to be free. XD

phatryde : LVL 14: VP 2.3: said:

phatryde

3 votes NegativePositive

803 days 13 hours ago...

Wow imagine the abuse of aimbots on a 1000 plus server.

They would virtually be impossible to catch.

Admins would have a hard time spotting or finding them, and 1000 plus people speaking???

This is a cheaters heaven if this comes to fruition.

virtualathlete : LVL 31: VP 4: said:

virtualathlete

0 votes NegativePositive

803 days 13 hours ago...

Ugh that stupid reporter made this difficult to sit through.

manofwar : LVL 30: VP 3.9: said:

manofwar

0 votes NegativePositive

803 days 10 hours ago...

I think that woman worked for G4 at one point...? I remeber seeing her on a show with another women and some dude that talked about gagets. I may be mistaken. But cool MS

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