VALORANT's Technical Journey to 128-Tick Server Performance
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Summary
VALORANT engineer Brent Randall provides a detailed technical explanation of the game's server performance optimization, focusing on the implementation of 128-tick servers. The article covers the development team's ambitious goals for server performance from early stages, the technical challenges involved, and how they achieved optimal gameplay integrity through rigorous server architecture and performance standards.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledFrom very early on in development, we knew that VALORANT would have very strict server performance requirements.
I'm an engineer on the Gameplay Integrity team for VALORANT. My team is responsible for VALORANT's build system, automation framework, game client performance, and server performance.
I'll be telling the technical story behind our search for optimal server performance.
I hope I can give you some insight into why that is, and how we accomplished our ambitious goals.
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