How does FGU connect to other players?

[Larsenex]

Greetings Team Smiteworks!

I was just curious how the game connects to players for FGU. I am not a network guy at all and was just trying to visualize how the connection process works.

We are not having any connection issues. Things are just fine. I was just trying to understand how things work a bit better.

Does my computer connect to a virtual server to the cloud or is there a real physical server that is housed (and owned) by Smiteworks somewhere?

Larsenex

[LordEntrails]

There is a real physical server... but it does not host your game.

Assuming you are use a "Cloud" connection, in general the cloud server attempts several methods to 'broker' the connection. Depending upon what is successful, it may do one of several things. It might just point your players to your IP, like the FGC Alias system does. But if that doesn't work, it may go through several things until it actually becomes a packet handler, where it remains a fixed server in your connection and transfers all the data back and forth between the host and the clients.

[Larsenex]

Now that is pretty cool! Thanks for the info.