BeGone Released! - Multi-player Shooter

Congratulations!

How do you handle collisions?

Very interesting, thank you!

How much CPU do 260 CCU consume from the available 2 core 1GHz server?

Weird, on my shitty pc the new one is unplayable where's the old one had like 40 fps. Note both of them were on lowest possible settings.

Deferred Rendering changes the performance massively.
its base overhead is extreme especially if you target anything below 8800GTX, 9800GTX or GTX260 / 460 / 560 and higher

It should really only be used if you have a lots of realtime lights and shadows, otherwise its gain (that its overhead with lots of lights and shadows is low) will become a major lose ...

Lower end GPUs can easily handle half a million+ polygons and lots of textures, but deferred makes the scene not render 1 or 2 times, but 5 (or 6, not fully sure), to fill all the buffers required for deferred. Even my GTX280 on a halfway reasonable level won't get beyond 100 frames, which for average casual user machines means that they can be happy to get out at 30FPS. And the problem is just removing lights or shadows won't affect it as the buffers and pixels get rendered none the less (thats why adding more of them is not as devastating as in forward rendering where affected objects are redrawn, not just some more pixels in screenspace affected)

In short, if you use deferred, you also need to write "Requires a NVIDIA 9800 or equivalent graphics chip" at least onto the requirements list

as such its definitely favorable to have all but the top 2 qualities use forward rendering (for the lowest one I would even consider the pure vertex renderpath fallback)

@Johanz: sorry missunderstood your message, thought you meant pc not version of game.

Doug Wolanick wrote:

I've changed it so that when "Image Effects" are set to 'Low' it uses forward rendering. Tried vertex-lit but the terrain looks horrible with that method.

Wouldn't call it horrible if a user really needs it.
GeForce 4 and older, people with Intel GMA 500 and 900 benefit of it too, for the 900 series it depends on the rest to what a degree - Unity Technologies didn't reduce the terrain detail and foliage - detail distances to nearly nothing when detecting an Intel GPU in the Unity 2.x Island Demo cause they hate Intel but love the users

But yeah with Vertex Lit render path Unity does not use any shaders at all, its pure fixed function rendering on the gpu ("dinosaur" or DX8 earlier) and the "nice texture repetition painting" on the terrain is pure pixel shader unhappily.
Due to this in Vertex Lit it actually bakes down the stuff to the size of the detail texture you define (unsure if per terrain or terrain chunk) and uses a single static texture which gives you a very low texel density compared to the realtime blended.

haha agreed, in any game that uses foliage as cover, a vegetation toggle or scaling is definitely no option

As for the terrain: Your terrain must be pretty large, even with the filtering it still looks as if its basically 2x2 texel per unit which would imply a 2 : 1 ratio on the terrain size vs splat map texture size. But yupp its not possible to go far beyond that as unity does not support vertex splatting (wrote such a system back in Blitz3D days on DX7, looks like unity terrains then just with no shader but instead with multiple meshes), only texture splatting

I've found a folder called "Begone" in /AppData/LocalLow/Unity/Cache/ and it weights 191 mb,
does this mean you've purchased a special license from UT?

Looks... beautiful

Can't wait to try this out when I get home from work. Anyways, great job!