Maximum players/connections in multiplayer game built on Netcode?

Hi all. I was curious what the maximum number of players or connections is that a game built on netcode for gameobjects can handle.
In the unity blog post 'choosing the right netcode for your game' there is a flow diagram with use-cases for the different networking solutions, with netcode recommended for games with 64 or fewer players in a match. Apart from this I cannot find an answer to this question in official documentation. Is 64 a hard limit that can't be overridden or is it a soft limit beyond which the framework will not scale well/perform poorly? Does UNET vs UTP transport layer influence this at all?

 

I see, thank you for answering

 

Would NGO be good for a game with 20 players? I want to make a game show/trivia game with about 20 players, whose positions don't need to be sent over the network as they will be in fixed positions. But I would like their rotations to be tracked.

 

That would be very doable, especially since it’s not a fast-paced game with, say, hundreds of networked bullets flying about.

 

Thanks, I saw one of your posts mentioning that you use Unity transport. I'm not too sure on the difference between NGO and unity transport. Would I be correct to assume that Unity transport should be used for games with more demanding network requirements, as opposed to NGO which should be used for smaller scaled multiplayer games?

 

NGO always needs a transport layer for network communication. Unity Transport is included with current versions of NGO for that reason, although you can replace it by another transport package (e.g. Photon) if you like — and likewise, Unity Transport can be used in other multiplayer solutions. So no, it’s not really an alternative to NGO but more a part of it.

 

the new Photon fusion can have up 200 players.

 

Currently the only treshhold is due a bug with the MaxPacketQueueSize. Since there is for some reasons a hard limit on that value, which will be changed/fixed in the future.
The reason is that, on connection, all the world state information will be loaded at once, filling the MaxPacketQueueSize to its treshhold.

Besideds that, i had 200+ Clients running. I expect that there can run a lot more if that issue is fixed.

 

Its the same issue I already mentioned back then and you already replied towards

So yes

 

Okay, I want to put my RPG online (my RPG is substantially developed). I'm pretty sure I won't need a fast tick rate and it seems like Netcode for GameObjects (NGO) may suit my needs. But lets say there is a CCU limit of some sort. Is it possible to get around that by having 50 or 100 users in one instance/zone and then having a similar number of users in another instance/zone and another and another and so forth with perhaps thousands of players total. YET, they all exist in the same "game" and can move from instance to instance etc? Of course, they would maintain their stats and equipment and so forth. I have substantial C# and Unity experience although I have little network/multiplayer experience.

 

What you mean can be done by what is called a "Realm". For example Diablo by Blizzard uses realms. You could have your character saved to the realm and then 10 servers that are hosting a specific zone and players can join one of the servers. The downside is that they need to disconnect and connect to another zone with the realm methode.