Multiplayer

GeneRacing´s multiplayer mode is based on a cloud-solution with different name-servers, master-servers spreaded in 14 countries and gameservers.

Default Ports By Protocol And Purpose

Port Numer	Protocol	Purpose
5058 or 27000	UDP	Client to Nameserver (UDP)
5055 or 27001	UDP	Client to Nameserver (UDP)
5056 or 27002	UDP	Client to Game Server (UDP)
4533	TCP	Client to Nameserver (TCP)
4530	TCP	Client to Master Server (TCP)
4531	TCP	Client to Game Server (TCP)
19093	TCP	Client to Nameserver (Secure WebSockets)
19090	TCP	Client to Master Server (Secure WebSockets)
19091	TCP	Client to Game Server (Secure WebSockets)

Upcoming

The network core will be remaked to achieve more flexibility, more functionalities and host servers by GeneRacing and the users himself

Migration to Mirror - 09/2021

Due to general problems with collission we decided to switch to the high level Networking API of Unity - Mirror.

Following changes will be documenated here for you posterity and some other developers to have a bit more insight.

Migration was started at September 2021 - while Alpha 0.0.7o is released.

Following functionalities will be changed/adjusted/implimented:

• Server
  • Full server authorative movements and calculations of car physics
  • Headless (dedicated) server for windows + linux
  • Steam server integration
  • Server authentication
  • Adjustable server tickrate
• Client
  • Lag compensation
  • Network compression
  • Snapshot
  • Serverchat
  • Console commands
  • Ping Server <> Client, see ping of all players