Dedicated Servers For All Versions Of Homefront “Means Everything Is Bigger”

Homefront senior designer Brian Holinka has said dedicated servers for all versions of the shooter will allow the game to support more airstrikes, weapons, and vehicles.

Speaking with Joystiq, Holinka said having dedicated servers for not only PC but consoles as well, helped the firm “offload” some of the work.

“You have to think about your constraints when you’re making a game,” he said. “If we host a server on a console, all of a sudden, that console is both server and it’s playing the game. That really lowers everything: player count, the number of vehicles, everything. Dedicated servers allow us to offload all that work and basically all the client has to worry about is running the game.

“It means everything is bigger — there’s more players, more vehicles, more targets, more airstrikes.”

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