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Deleting multiplayer from the Unreal engine can save memory

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163 points mariuz | 1 comments | 06 Apr 25 10:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.231s | source
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mwkaufma ◴[08 Apr 25 04:04 UTC] No.43618250[source]▶
On ABZÛ we ripped out multiplayer and lots of other cruft from AActor and UPrimitiveComponent - dropping builtin overlap events, which are a kind of anti pattern anyway, not only saved RAM but cut a lot of ghost reads/writes.
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1. rc5150 ◴[08 Apr 25 04:29 UTC] No.43618358[source]▶
Whoa! Didn't picture myself seeing a dev who worked on Abzu in the wild here on HN--I very much enjoyed that game, my thanks and high fives to your team for your work!

I'm having a kid-in-the-tunnel-meeting-Mean-Joe-Green-in-the-commercial moment, I just started my own game development journey about a week ago so it's neat getting to run across a full-on developer!

To stay on topic, I often thought how cool Abzu would have been with multiplayer but it's a good lesson to me that some features that might be desirable might also be a hindrance to some degree.

Okay, enough fanboying!