Respawn Leisure shall be publishing the weblog publish copied under asserting the migration of Apex Legends to Amazon GameLift Servers on AWS.
The goal is to enhance the expertise for players by making behind-the-scenes adjustments that may have an effect on issues like ping time, lag, and disputes about who actually shot who first.
As a long-term funding within the tech powering Apex, Digital Arts’ Respawn has formally migrated our recreation servers to Amazon GameLift Servers. This partnership provides us extra flexibility to determine and deal with points throughout areas, in the end serving to Respawn ship a extra constant expertise over time.
It’s price noting that each participant’s connection is exclusive, and no single change will have an effect on everybody the identical manner. However this transfer provides Respawn stronger instruments to dig into particular downside areas and, the place doable, make enhancements.
One early signal of progress: Respawn has seen a noticeable drop in recreation server efficiency degradation, issues like rubber-banding and hit registration points. Submit-migration, matches experiencing these points have decreased. Whereas this impacts a comparatively small proportion of complete matches, it’s a significant step ahead.
To rejoice the transfer and thank gamers for being a part of this journey, Respawn has lined up some enjoyable issues for gamers. For April 17 to April 24, EA is giving 1.5 instances XP on all sources in addition to two instances XP when taking part in in a celebration. And from April 18 to April 20, Respawn is giving Double Battle Cross Stars on Weeklies.
Why this occurred
I requested Apex Legends precept technical director Rob LaCruise what Amazon GameLift Servers on AWS can do this wasn’t accessible to with the earlier tech. In a message, LaCruise stated the crew determined to maneuver to Amazon GameLift Servers on AWS as “we imagine their providers supply the very best general participant going through efficiency when in comparison with different alternate options. Moreover, AWS servers are commonplace for a lot of different FPS titles and we imagine our gamers will see the advantages of this migration globally.”
Relating to server efficiency degradation, he stated, “Efficiency degradation might be measured in a number of methods akin to packet loss, latency, and error charge as examples. These and different components can negatively impression the participant expertise akin to experiencing rubber banding. With our engagement with AWS, we’re persevering with the hunt of straight addressing and decreasing how and when these points present up with the objective of bettering the participant expertise.”
He stated that Respawn and EA preplanned for a number of months to verify the execution was seamless and in solely 10 days they have been in a position to migrate all of their gamers. As for the tangible advantages for gamers?
“We are actually in a position to leverage the worldwide infrastructure of AWS to continously optimize server and community efficiency. We’ve extra choices and adaptability on the brand new infrastructure platform,” he stated.
