[Full Release] Ship Fair And Competitive Games with Server Authority
Key Takeaways
Server Authority is now available for all creators to run their core game on the server while maintaining instantaneous, lag-free player responsiveness. This unlocks new dimensions of gameplay through consistent, fair physics and blocks exploits like speed hacks without requiring custom anti-cheat code.
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Hi Creators,
We’re launching Server Authority for all games today. Based on your feedback, we want to help you build fair and responsive multiplayer games. This feature makes the server the single source of truth for your game’s state, letting you protect your games while keeping physics responsive.
Why Use Server Authority
Cheating ruins gameplay and hurts your communities. Server Authority solves this at the engine level by running your code authoritatively on the server, which automatically rejects invalid client movements. It’s paired with client prediction and rollback, so your client predicts inputs instantly and resimulates to match the server if a misprediction happens, keeping gameplay snappy. The result is consistent, fair physics for character movement, vehicles, and sports across every device and connection. In short, this new netcode empowers you to write server-side behaviors without latency, unlocking more gameplay options for any game.
What’s New
Boosted Performance and Reduced Mispredictions
We’ve made some improvements since launching the Client Beta. We’ve built a stronger foundation by boosting performance and reducing mispredictions across the board. Server Authority is easy to turn on for basic characters and objects simulated by the engine, and it protects your games from cheating while keeping physics responsive.
• Mispredictions: Lowered mispredictions across a range of gameplay scenarios.
• Performance: Improved framerate on lower-end devices
• Backpacks and Tools: Now fully supported…