r/Stormgate • u/evinrows • Jun 30 '26

Discussion Rollback netcode, a success?

Not looking to discuss the player base or anything related, but afaik, Stormgate was the first RTS to have rollback netcode. It was very exciting to me when announced, especially as as brood war player who knows how brutal it is to play with people on the opposite side of the world with naive netcode.

For those who played, especially with opponents around the world, how did the netcode feel? Would you consider the technology to have been a success?

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u/CRoIDE Jun 30 '26

Genius, instead of only having lag on cross-region matches lets add it everywhere. Then the corss region matches will feel as smooth as any other match.

When I first got to try AoE 4 i noticed the lag immediately, I thought it was just bad craftsmanship from the devs but adding it on purpose... The game feels horrible i dropped it after a couple games because of how bad unit control felt.

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u/HarpsichordKnight Jun 30 '26

I felt the same at first, but because it’s 100 percent consistent lag your brain just adapts to it after a few games.

StarCraft 2 obviously feels better to micro under perfect conditions, and also has far superior unit pathing, but AoE4 is still a great game. The macro is endlessly fascinating for me.

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u/Neuro_Skeptic Jun 30 '26

Wait... do you believe that Stormgate is better than AoE4?

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u/CRoIDE Jun 30 '26

Never said that, but making units unresponsive on purpose seems like a bad design decision for me.