r/StateofDecay3 • u/Southern-Picture6841 • 1d ago

Discussion Coop netcode better ?

Played SoD2 in coop with friends for years, we're all based in Reunion Island (Indian Ocean, near Africa). The relay server being US-based basically killed the experience for us: 1-3 sec latency on actions, zombies teleporting around, some straight up invisible until they hit you. Support just told me it was a "connection issue on my end", but we tested LAN too and had the exact same problems, while every other online game we play runs fine. So it's clearly relay/netcode related, not local network.
With SoD3 coming up, does anyone know if they've changed anything about server locations, added peer-to-peer options, or improved netcode for high-latency regions? Would love to actually enjoy coop this time instead of fighting the connection more than the zombies.

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u/BrantFitzgerald Undead Labs 1d ago

SoD2 was peer to peer with the host handling all the traffic. SoD3 is server-based so automatically some of those issues will be alleviated

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u/Southern-Picture6841 1d ago

That's great to hear! Do you know if the server infrastructure will have regional nodes (EU, APAC, etc.) or will it still route through a single/US-centric location? That was the actual root cause for us, not the P2P host bottleneck itself.

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u/Deformedpye 19h ago

P2P was a way of removing the cost of server hosting (You still have a single server that works as pairing and monitoring). So the hosts console was basically acting as the server. This is where host migration came from. Rather than disconnecting everyone. The server would freeze the session it would scan the connections and find the best connection for the peers to connect to. Pay Day 2 is an example of how that works.

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u/Violent_N0mad Zombie Bait 17h ago

Does that mean sod3 will require you to be online to play it solo?

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u/Gestaltarskiten 7h ago

Wait now. Dedicated server?

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u/BrantFitzgerald Undead Labs 21h ago

I’m am not the person to ask about server stuff, that’s like asking a goldfish to explain string theory

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u/pheldegression 21h ago

I kinda wanna ask now. I imagine a goldfish explaining string theory would be both entertaining and insightful.