I wasn't meaning how many on a server, I meant how many in 1 game at a time. In MAG you have 256 players all on one map battling it out against each other.

In this game will it be thousands going up against each other at once?

1 server = 1 game

same goes to MAG - each server can handle 1 game.

It is really hard to convey a MMOFPS experience to someone viewing it in terms of your typical FPS. A "map" doesn't really have close to the same meaning. Not even remotely. Planetside would have hundreds (closer than a thousand than not at times) in some areas, but they wouldn't be "actively" fighting each other liek you would expect on a given "map."

To answer the question in a slightly less cryptic way, yes you should probably expect it. EVE has well over a thousand in single battles at times. Literally over a thousand people shooting at each other. This kind of large scale engagement is relatively rare though. At any given moment tens of thousands of players are actively trying to beat the other "team" though. They are directly playing against each other in a different type of arena though.

Huxley was said to have thousands of players, but trimmed down for each server. But anyone could play against anyone. And also go against normal foes like in WOW. It was a different far bigger game than MAG, so yeah MAG was smaller scale.

See, MAG isn't really an MMO. It's just a multiplayer game with alot of people. Like maps. Whereas Huxley and Dust 514 are huge MMO games.

I am going to go ahead and assume you didn't mean to quote me for this one. The concept of players joining a map to play is much closer to Diablo than a MMO. If that is what MAG does, and Huxley does  not do that then I would have to agree that Huxley is the bigger game.

That sounds incredible then.

I was curious because in the case with Huxley they first had to trim it from 100 vs 100 to 60 vs 60, with the PC being either 100 vs 100 or 120 vs 120. Then from what we know now, they seem to have given up on it entirely.

In the case with MAG we had people saying that 256 players was too much and would experience incredible amounts of lag.

I was wondering how, considering all that, that this game could host thousands at a time like that.


Not trying to knock the game, because I think it looks and sounds incredible.

As for Huxley, this is what I could find on it.

OT: I watched the first couple of videos and maybe I missed it somewhere, but do we have an estimated release period for this game?

How similar is it to EVE? Should I check that out to get an idea of how this game will end up?

Why would you want 100 v 100 in the first place? You enjoy just random spraying of bullets with no tactical element? Bigger doesn't always mean better. Personally I don't think this game looks all that amazing and the vehicles and ships look eerily similar to halo ones in that trailer.
Speaking of upcoming shooters I want to know whats up with project offset. If you don't know what that is look it up. That is a game that has some cool ideas for it. Too bad its probably never gonna see the light of day.

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Sorry