MMO-Champion Feed - CodeCraft – Under the Hood with Blizzard Engineering, Part 1

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CodeCraft – Under the Hood with Blizzard Engineering, Part 1

Mythic Plus Systems

• Record a watermark of mythic + level when determining keystone level
• Design team determines what combinations of keystone affixes are possible
• Dungeon reads keystone when it's placed and allows design team to modify dungeon based on what the key turns on.
• Design team also is responsible for implementing the chest and rewards at end of keystone dungeon

Overwatch Patch Days

• Patch cycle starts days to weeks before patch.
• Red and blue deployment cycle for patches. Testing happens on one cycle to prepare for launch day

Technology Challenges

• Team had to deal with the growing pains of being a multiple platform system
• Integrating all games through one platform helps immensely

Learning from Warcraft Patch Days

• Try to avoid surprises and downtime
• Went from over 8 hour deployments to much faster with red/blue deployment

Getting into Design Industry

• Look at team culture and your fit within it
• Try to do side projects and consider the scope
• Finished projects are much better than larger scope projects
• Don't forget a cover letter!

Mythic Plus Affixes

• Wasn't necessarily an engineering challenge
• Content creators design the affixes, designers just see code and implement it
• Designers run scripts to add additional functionality based on affixes (such as conditional upon enemy death)

Lag in Blizzard Matchmaking

• New technology also involves infrastructure
• Data centers all over the world
• Evaluate where players are coming from
• Understanding where to put servers
• Always trying to reduce ping
• Data collection helps the speed at which network team can respond to concerns

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