<story><title>The science of Destiny 2&apos;s &apos;uniquely complicated&apos; netcode</title><url>http://www.pcgamer.com/the-strange-science-of-destiny-2s-uniquely-complicated-netcode/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jgmmo</author><text>The game limits multiplayer interaction big time. It&amp;#x27;s no more than 3 parties allowed in an instance at any one time, and that&amp;#x27;s where a single person can count as a party. So really how tough does the netcode be when you really just have instance based coop.&lt;p&gt;PVP is basically csgo in space. Not too many people on each team. Only 2 teams. Etc.&lt;p&gt;As an aside, as a gamer - terribly displeased with destiny 2. Huge dissappointment. Mostly because of it&amp;#x27;s multiplayer and communicated drawbacks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jakebasile</author><text>Not having public zone chat, and even worse not having clan chat in this ostensibly social game is absolute madness. Yes, I&amp;#x27;m in Discord voice&amp;#x2F;text chatting with people I know but what am I supposed to do to talk to the random pubby next to me? It&amp;#x27;s intensely frustrating when I&amp;#x27;m standing next to someone in a public area and want to show them a chest or something, and the only way I can do it is to shoot them until they look at me, then shoot towards the thing I want to show. Communicating how to trigger heroic events is literally impossible.&lt;p&gt;They claim to be protecting sensitive people from mean people, but to do so they&amp;#x27;re essentially nuking the ability for the vast majority of people who aren&amp;#x27;t one of those two groups to communicate and organize for play. It&amp;#x27;s even set to ignore whispers from people you don&amp;#x27;t have on your friends list &amp;#x2F; clan by default, so almost no one knows to change that and cannot be contacted in any way. They should enable zone&amp;#x2F;clan chat by default with the option to turn it off.&lt;p&gt;I cannot think of any other similar game on PC that is so constraining to player communication. The Division has zone chat. Warframe does too. The brand new Call of Duty WWII, which isn&amp;#x27;t even the same type of &amp;quot;shared world shooter&amp;quot; has more social interaction available in their social space (&amp;quot;headquarters&amp;quot;).</text></comment>
<story><title>The science of Destiny 2&apos;s &apos;uniquely complicated&apos; netcode</title><url>http://www.pcgamer.com/the-strange-science-of-destiny-2s-uniquely-complicated-netcode/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jgmmo</author><text>The game limits multiplayer interaction big time. It&amp;#x27;s no more than 3 parties allowed in an instance at any one time, and that&amp;#x27;s where a single person can count as a party. So really how tough does the netcode be when you really just have instance based coop.&lt;p&gt;PVP is basically csgo in space. Not too many people on each team. Only 2 teams. Etc.&lt;p&gt;As an aside, as a gamer - terribly displeased with destiny 2. Huge dissappointment. Mostly because of it&amp;#x27;s multiplayer and communicated drawbacks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saluki</author><text>I bought Destiny 2 (PS4) around the same time I got Player Unknown&amp;#x27;s Battlegrounds (PC).&lt;p&gt;I have about an hour on D2 and 300+ hrs on PUBG.&lt;p&gt;PUBG is so entertaining I never even made it back to Destiny.&lt;p&gt;100 online players in each match, dropped on an island, pick up loot(guns, helmets, ammo, attachments), be the last player standing.&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting to see a write up on PUBG net code.&lt;p&gt;The dev team sounds new&amp;#x2F;semi-amateur but I think they have done a great job with the game and the single map that is available (8km x8km).&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not the best I&amp;#x27;m sure, there are optimization issues, lots of cheaters currently, you&amp;#x27;ll get wiped by hackers 1 out of 10 matches.&lt;p&gt;But solo is so much fun and Squad and Duo are even more fun. There are discord channels to meet up with fun to play with players.&lt;p&gt;If you have a decent gaming PC I&amp;#x27;d recommend giving it a try.</text></comment>