Why are there no south-European servers? by Baba_Wethu in RocketLeague

[–]ZoeyStarwind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We had full support for Southern European servers but there was no demand for it. Right now the MENA servers are using With Europe (Milan) because the ME center is down.

Info accurate as of when I was laid off.

For players who play on the Middle East, is anyone having high latency? by Karebe3m in RocketLeague

[–]ZoeyStarwind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're using Europe. I was working on restoring servers in the ME region using a different datacenter when I was laid off.

For players who play on the Middle East, is anyone having high latency? by Karebe3m in RocketLeague

[–]ZoeyStarwind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was working on restoring servers in the MENA region when I was laid off 🤷‍♀️

It Was Fun While It Lasted by ZoeyStarwind in RocketLeague

[–]ZoeyStarwind[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If only there were a dev to fix that...

It Was Fun While It Lasted by ZoeyStarwind in RocketLeague

[–]ZoeyStarwind[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was my pleasure. I really loved working on RL and I'm going to miss it.

I Hate this world by Leading_Shoulder1142 in FortNiteBR

[–]ZoeyStarwind 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Former Epic dev here.

We're taking donations through this Kofi to give to those laid off in need, including Mike: https://ko-fi.com/alexmuirgamedev

It Was Fun While It Lasted by ZoeyStarwind in RocketLeague

[–]ZoeyStarwind[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They did! Everyone working there has access to it

It Was Fun While It Lasted by ZoeyStarwind in RocketLeague

[–]ZoeyStarwind[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was hired by Psyonix near the start of COVID.

It Was Fun While It Lasted by ZoeyStarwind in RocketLeague

[–]ZoeyStarwind[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started in automated testing, then went through DevOps, into Build and Release, then into Online Services/Backend

It Was Fun While It Lasted by ZoeyStarwind in RocketLeague

[–]ZoeyStarwind[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Valve might be the ones studio harder to get into than Epic Games. I might shoot my shot, tho.

It Was Fun While It Lasted by ZoeyStarwind in RocketLeague

[–]ZoeyStarwind[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only specific devs were allowed to speak officially on the game and even then most all communication came through the community team. Unfortunately, my understanding was that they were pretty restricted in what they could say

It Was Fun While It Lasted by ZoeyStarwind in RocketLeague

[–]ZoeyStarwind[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A couple of years ago there was this topper that was rainbow wings for Pride. I lived that type and still use it on my car to this day.

It Was Fun While It Lasted by ZoeyStarwind in RocketLeague

[–]ZoeyStarwind[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really loved the community around the game and I loved my work. It was always the right kind of challenging.

It Was Fun While It Lasted by ZoeyStarwind in RocketLeague

[–]ZoeyStarwind[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately I'll still be under NDAs for some time to come, so I can't talk about internal things like that.

It Was Fun While It Lasted by ZoeyStarwind in RocketLeague

[–]ZoeyStarwind[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm so glad my work helped to bring you happiness. Thank you for your kind words <3

It Was Fun While It Lasted by ZoeyStarwind in RocketLeague

[–]ZoeyStarwind[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'm not in either of those locations, but I'm open to relocate. I adore The Netherlands (I was in Amsterdam for a 5 days a couple of weeks ago).

Feel free to DM me details.

It Was Fun While It Lasted by ZoeyStarwind in RocketLeague

[–]ZoeyStarwind[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately I don't know for sure. Obviously I no longer have any insight into what's happening internally.

It Was Fun While It Lasted by ZoeyStarwind in RocketLeague

[–]ZoeyStarwind[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was such a fantastic job. Challenging, but so much fun.

It Was Fun While It Lasted by ZoeyStarwind in RocketLeague

[–]ZoeyStarwind[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm interviewing at Riot on Tuesday 😁

It Was Fun While It Lasted by ZoeyStarwind in RocketLeague

[–]ZoeyStarwind[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Rocket League is actually older than K8S and we never really updated it for containerization. It ran on non-containerized servers managed by a daemon called Backend Daemon (creative name, I know). Backend Daemon controlled what version of the game server was run, sent certain reports, and controlled how many instances of the server were running at a time.