Source 2 General Question Thread

[nykez (Jordan)]

Some of my questions about source2 that get lost in discord or never answered

Is the general cap of 128 players gonna be removed (or 255 ?) to have unlimited amount of slots?

How is the networking? If we want to have 128 players on a general server; what tick rate can expect to be running?

Does the HTTP streaming/loading from Unreal-S&box exist in Source2-S&Box?

To bounce more off question 3: The PlayerController seems to be predicted in a sense. What other entities are we provided that will have a predicted base? Vehicles? Air Vehicles? … etc

[Eris (Nathan)]

I honestly have no idea how Source 2 really works, only listened to bits and bobs from McDicker, are “infinite” maps possible?

[rako]

I’d also like to know if it’s realistic to expect to run 128 players at higher server tick rate than Garry’s Mod - Does source 2 make better use of the hardware you throw at it? Does it scale much better than Garry’s Mod?

[WYVERN]

(From facepunch discord)

We know garry would like large modes and player slots, so I’m confident we’ll get something pretty good.

[ghostr (Anthony)]

probably missed this somewhere obvious, but what language are add-ons going to be in? I hope it’s c#

[WYVERN]

It’s all in C#

[ghostr (Anthony)]

that’s fantastic news. thanks

[WYVERN]

You can actually see a bunch of code snippets that garry has been working on his profile:

garry

Some include a dev camera he’s made:

DevCam

Can switch to devcam while the game is running or paused and fly around checking shit out. Here’s some undocumented code. public class DevCamera : BaseCamera { Angles LookAngles; Vector3 MoveInput; Vector3 TargetPos; Rotation TargetRot; bool PivotEnabled; Vector3 PivotPos; float PivotDist; float MoveSpeed; bool Overlays = true; /// <summary> /// On the camera becoming activated, snap to the current view position /// </summary> …

And some user input modification:

Modifying User Input

Man I ripped out so much code today. For like 3 hours ripping out code. But I just got it so you can build and modify the user input from the gamemode. /// <summary> /// Clientside only. Called every frame to process the input. /// The results of this input are encoded into a user command and /// passed to the PlayerController both clientside and serverside. /// This routine is mainly responsible for taking input from mouse/controller /// and building look angles and move direction. /// </summ…

[ghostr (Anthony)]

Can’t wait to get my hands on that

[VodMesa (Francesco Maes)]

Is it possible for me have a script for setting this as the default model globally

I’m genuinely curious

[Lucify]

Most likely c#