转至内容
商品 Matchmaking for Unreal 的媒体 1

描述

Unreal matchmaking made easy.

Edgegap’s matchmaking for dedicated servers enables any multiplayer game to automatically group players & instantly deploy game servers.

Documentation - Tutorial Video - Discord

Our Unreal SDK makes integration a breeze, and matchmaking logic is made easy with our no-code, simple configurations based on parameters - just upload your JSON and you’re done! If needed, customize your matchmaker’s logic to fit your game’s unique needs using our sample configurations and rule expansions for all game types.Once online, our fully managed platform streamlines your DevOps workload and eliminates the need for on-call duty, maintenance, scaling, and hosting. Backed by 24/7 live support from Edgegap’s team of experts.

Key Features

  • Rule-Based Team Matchmaking: Join as a group or fill multiple teams with players with any team arrangement (e.g., 1v1, 1v3, 8v8, 16v16, etc.).

  • No Code with Customizable Parameters: Group players based on unique rules tailored for your game across players, latency, string equality, intersection & number difference. Which enables you to match players across any unique ruleset - from skill-based (SBMM) ranking, ELO, latency, region-based / geo-based, group-size parameters & much more.

  • SDK: Edgegap’s free SDK for Unreal, developed by Betide, makes integration a matter of minutes.

  • Rules Expansion: Avoid endless matchmaking queues and speed up matchmaking with incremental rule extensions that relax restrictions over time, ensuring players are always grouped and deployed in a match—regardless of your game’s player base size.

  • Latency-Based Matchmaking: Edgegap’s matchmaker is the only (that we know of) matchmaking system with latency-based rules that ensure an lag-free online experience for all players.

  • Any Game Genre: Our matchmaking solution provides you with both a simple configuration template to get you started & matching players quickly, alongside genre-specific samples to tailor matchmaking rules to your game’s unique needs - competitive (e.g., shooters, MOBA, fighting, battle royale, strategy, sports, trading-card, etc.), cooperative (e.g., COOP, PvE, party, etc.), social (e.g., casual, hypercasual, etc.), and games requiring lobbies (sandbox, MMOs, racing, survival, roguelike, metaverse, etc.).

  • Automated Backfill: For games with lobbies, reuse server seats when players leave the sessions with automated backfill.

  • Cross-Platform: Edgegap’s matchmaker is cross-platform compatible, matching players regardless of their hardware - mobile, web, console, PC, VR, etc.

  • Fully-Managed: Hosted & managed by Edgegap, it streamlines your DevOps workload and removes the need for on-call duty, maintenance, scaling & hosting.

  • Instant Deployments: Edgegap’s matchmaking is fully integrated with Edgegap’s game server hosting & orchestration whose Unreal SDK is free for personal use. Edgegap allows you to deploy game server in less than 3 seconds on average, reduces latency by 58% on average for your players and, in demand, tap into the world’s largest cloud network with 615+ locations worldwide for flawless hosting.

  • Inspect APIs: Access analytics and monitoring that empower you to improve your matchmaker’s decision-making logic alongside player traceability. A/B test to your heart’s content too!

  • Zero Downtime Updates: Automatically progressively roll out updates with no impact on your live game.

  • (Coming Soon) Go Beyond a Server Browser: Allow your players to browse active servers and join games on the go.

Q&A

  • Is Edgegap’s Matchmaker functional with authoritative (”dedicated”) servers?

    • Yes! Edgegap matchmaker is fully integrated with Edgegap’s game server hosting & orchestration platform that deploys game servers on the world’s largest network. Learn more from Epic Games on their blog.

  • Why is the Edgegap matchmaker using clusters?

    • Matchmaking requires compute resources on a server to receive the matchmaking tickets and then send a game server deployment requests.

    • This allows for dynamic matchmaking, unlike P2P-based matchmaking solution that are only creating a list of player-hosted lobbies through platforms like EOS or Steam, and aren’t automatically matching players in group/teams.

    • Matchmaking without clusters eliminates decision-making logic, which preventing the use of rules like ELO, skill-based (SBMM), and other popular matchmaking decision-making used in commercial games.

  • Can I use Edgegap’s matchmaker for peer-to-peer (P2P) networking

    • Edgegap requires dedicated servers or smart relays for peer-to-peer networking. For more details on which option is right for your game, please refer to our explainer on different types of game servers. Please note that, as of today, EOS relays are not supported.

标签