More dedicated servers needed ASAP.

[Benitro]

First off I love the game, it's great but there is a huge problem in sight here: dedicated servers.

 

Let me explain first why we need dedicated servers as opposed to player hosted servers. Nobody wants to spend hours of time investing in a base just to have the host say he has to go and drop the server. My upload is too slow to make my own good host and people might not join for the very same reason that I won't join others.

 

So when I go to the survival browser, which seems to be the more popular game mode, I find 2 dedicated servers that I can play on with reasonable pings: NY and San Francisco, these two servers are almost always full or too progressed to join late, and during prime gaming hours they are always full or too progressed.

 

This means that there is a large demand for dedicated servers. I even looked in to hosting one myself. But if the developers can easily make it happen, they should asap, who knows how many people aren't playing just because of the difficulty to find dedicated servers.

 

One other note, it seems that once a server reaches a population of around 9+ it lags way too much until somebody leaves. It could be the servers but it's happened to me on multiple. Thanks for reading.

 

 

[rezecib]

@Benitro, Dedicated servers are still very much in testing. The plan is for players to be able to host dedicated servers-- a limited rollout of those is in progress, but they should be released for everyone pretty soon. Once that happens (in a week maybe?), expect an explosion of dedicated servers

[Benitro]

That's great new, thanks.

That's great new, thanks.