Chris Roberts · CEO / Game Director

Well, definitely, yeah. I mean, depending on where we were and what we're doing on the server, we could quite easily do more than 50 players right now, because we've made a bunch of performance improvements. So for instance, if we were doing a game mode like Arena Commander or Star Marine, we could probably have a mode that had a hundred players, because we wouldn't have this huge system that we have to simulate on the server. And we've made a huge amount of performance improvements because we know we have to scale for this huge PU universe. So as long as you don't have to simulate all that, then the processing for the individual players or clients wouldn't be so relevant. So you could potentially see us have a game mode that could have more than 50 players in a more limited fashion. And then on the main PU side, that will depend on the backend server side. When we get the backend server side in the way I've described, then we can up the player count too.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

That is not the same as confirming or hinting at a Battle Royale mode. It's one thing to say that we have the tech to do something, not to say that we're planning to do something.

Chris Roberts · CEO / Game Director

We're not planning on doing that, but we are looking at ways to make Arena Commander and Star Marine, like I think we had on ATV yesterday, relevant again. Because the difference is, you may want to practice dogfighting, you may want to practice your FPS skills, and not do it in a situation where you're going to lose things that you've earned in the PU. And then the other thing that we're quite keen on is some of the cool stuff we see, like, I don't know, Rexilla puts together cool games or whatever. It'd be nice to facilitate that sort of interaction or gaming experience happening for our community. So those are all things we've talked about. Nothing is happening right away, I don't promise anything, but those are all things that we're interested in doing, and we could do some interesting stuff because of all these performance improvements that we've done over the last few patches to enable the PU growing to the size it has. As anyone knows, if you play Arena Commander, I think it's just locked at 60 frames a second, as is Star Marine.