Explorando a jogabilidade em um jogo FPS sob diferentes condições de rede

Abstract

Games are developed with the aim of transmitting good experiences to their users. Furthermore, for videogames to achieve their creation objective, important resources are necessary, such as outstanding network quality. This work aims to analyze the influence that different network conditions can have on gameplay and the experience generated in a multiplayer game of the FPS genre. Furthermore, evaluate the consequences of a streaming system when running on the same network as a game. The network scenarios were created considering variations in transmission rate, latency and packet loss factors. The game chosen to be evaluated for this work was CS:GO, due to it being an FPS game and having notable visibility in the games market. The criteria used to evaluate players’ performance in this study were KDA, number of rounds, gold, number of headshot and hit rate. Furthermore, it was evaluated how network variation factors in different scenarios can influence the defined gameplay metrics. Furthermore, to develop the test cases, Clumsy was used to emulate the different network states, and the Wireshark program was run to capture network traffic. With the analysis of the data collected, it was possible to conclude that unfavorable network conditions affect players at different levels. On top of that, it served as a meanstobalancethedisparityinskilllevelsbetweenplayers. Duringtestswiththevideoservice, it was found that this application interferes with the gameplay of the tested game. Therefore, in both scenarios, network conditions affect the game and players’ performance.