How does matchmaking work in the photon cloud?
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Since trying to understand Photon, I came across a curious conundrum. In server hosted games, when a player wants to find a match to join, he searches for one and the server finds a group of people interested in playing a match, that are around the same level (skill or whatever) as the our player.
As I understand it, Photon Cloud (Realtime in my case), does not do so. Instead, it would require one client to host a match (in this case just create a room using Photon Cloud) and others would find it. is this correct? If this is correct, how does matchmaking work in this case? If not, why would there be a need for a master client?
cheers!
As I understand it, Photon Cloud (Realtime in my case), does not do so. Instead, it would require one client to host a match (in this case just create a room using Photon Cloud) and others would find it. is this correct? If this is correct, how does matchmaking work in this case? If not, why would there be a need for a master client?
cheers!
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Hi @CASBraga.
Please see the link from @JohnTube for information about matchmaking, but also please note that the master client is a entirely separate concept, that has nothing to do with matchmaking.
Photon makes one of the clients inside a room the master client on which authority all clients inside that room agree. The master client is not special in any way beyond that as far as Photon is concerned, but you can use this functionality, if you want to treat one of the clients as the "host" (although technically the server is who hosts the game and not the master client) in your game logic to use it as the authority whenever you need one client to be authoritative over the others.5
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Hi @CASBraga.
Please see the link from @JohnTube for information about matchmaking, but also please note that the master client is a entirely separate concept, that has nothing to do with matchmaking.
Photon makes one of the clients inside a room the master client on which authority all clients inside that room agree. The master client is not special in any way beyond that as far as Photon is concerned, but you can use this functionality, if you want to treat one of the clients as the "host" (although technically the server is who hosts the game and not the master client) in your game logic to use it as the authority whenever you need one client to be authoritative over the others.5 -
@JohnTube Thanks for the infomation. I read it already and reread it after posting the question and realized that my assumption about how matchmaking worked in the Photon Cloud was wrong.
@Kaiserludi Thanks for explaining that to me. The master client thing was going to trip me down the road since I assumed it was the client which had to create the room.
Again, thak you both!
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Hi @CASBraga.
Well, the current master client is implementation assigns master client status to the client with the lowest playerNumber among those clients who are still inside the room. PlayerNumbers get assigned in the order in which the clients enter the room and the room creator of course is always the first client that has entered a room. So as long as the room creator is still in the room it is indeed the master client, but this simply does not have to do anything with matchmaking.0