Hello Robocrafters!
As you may know, we temporarily increased team sizes over last weekend as an experiment. We hope that many of you had a lot of fun and felt it would be interesting to share some of our observations with you based on this event.
We saw a lot of positive comments regarding the increased team sizes, it seemed like many of our most vocal players really enjoyed the event, however there was a call out for increased map size and better optimisation.
Our internal analytics also shed a bunch of light on this experiment.
- Load times increased when entering a match.
- Frame Rates for players were significantly affected.
- Queue times were longer.
- More AI bots filled team spaces.
In addition, we noticed another concerning piece of info, new players were less likely to continue playing Robocraft during the 8 vs 8 event… We do feel that this might have been affected by the decrease in performance during this event, but nevertheless it is a very important factor in our decisions too.
Technically, we feel that 8 vs 8 did not perform up to standards. We may run further experiments in the future to gauge interest in features and see how technically feasible they are. On this occasion, we ran into a few issues, but we would like to thank everyone who played over the weekend!
We may run further experiments in the future, but the team is currently working on the next event, please stay tuned as we’ll be sharing some news very very soon!
Build, Drive, Fight
ReelBigKris