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- akerstenI wish the author got more into the weeds of anitcheat and how it evolved over time. Jagex was banning bots based on mouse movement heuristics in like 2005. 20 years later and there's some JS framework on the front page here heralding that same kind of analysis as some revolutionary new approach. I can only imagine what the modern anticheat engine entails, especially in the era of LLMs that can reliably emulate a human player. (Some of them can even write quite technical blog posts that almost escape detection ;)
- saejoxUltima online released in 1997 and required only a 28k modem.I also would argue it was a more complex game.
- OsrsNeedsf2PIs this article just an analysis of the Lost City[0] codebase without linking Lost City?[0] https://github.com/LostCityRS
- stux> Before any networking occurs, the client runs a breadth-first search using the local collision map to build a path from where you are to where you clicked, and then writes the packet for the server to read. [...] The packet contains the absolute position of the first waypoint in the path, followed by the delta of each waypoint in the path against the first oneHow come the client sends waypoints rather than just the destination? Naively it seems like sending less data would be better. Is the pathfinding so expensive that you'd want to avoid doing it on the server? I suppose it works out as long as it's cheap to validate/correct the client's path?
- NDlurkerPhantasy Star Online on the Sega Dreamcast worked great on dial up
- ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7not to take away from the article, but some did with similar fidelity on 14.4khttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_massively_multiplay...i think the author would find ultima online emulators interesting
- aboardRat4Lineage 2 was launched in 2003 with a stunning 3d graphics.Sphera is even older.MMORPGs are super old.
- dofmOh man. The gamer cult around RuneScape was so hardcore and evangelical in 2004 that it is when it acquired the nickname "Run! Escape!"I never fell in with the cult and I am glad I didn't. The Dofus cult in the next few years was small and hilarious and luckily the economics of that game made it a bit less fun beyond a certain level, like the real world, so you could get out before you lost your mind.
- sphI love how when Runescape gets posted on here, there’s always a few proud stories of how people cheated. Today one is even admitting to RWT (real world trading) for tens of thousands of $, when elsewhere one shuts up about it because cheaters in multiplayer gaming are regarded as the antisocial scum that make the game worse for everybody else. It’s not really something to brag about.I guess one thing antisocial people lack is self-awareness.
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- percentcerI don't understand how RuneScape managed to get the traction it did. 2004 was the same year World of Warcraft came out!