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This talk from the Halo: Reach team might be one of my favorite game networking talks I've ever seen: link to this video
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I Shot You First: Networking the Gameplay of Halo: Reach
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- Recommended by 4 people: 4 on Hacker News.
- A classic. People kept recommending it from 2022 to 2025.
- Presented by David Aldridge, Bungie
- May be out of date. Uploaded 8 years ago, in an area where tools change fast.
Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
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Game developmentDistributed systemsGame programmingNetworking and protocols
Bungie's David Aldridge details the networking architecture, state synchronization, and latency compensation techniques used in Halo: Reach.
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4 people recommend thisWhat people say. Widely recommended by game developers as one of the best and most detailed talks on multiplayer game networking.
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A great talk about this is about halo reach'es networking: link to this video I haven't seen it in a few years (re-watching it now), but IIRC they talk about how they do forecasting of things like shielding, grenade throws but need to reconciliate state after.