Offline mode for Ares Alpha App
Thank you for the information; it’s very helpful.
Could you also tell us how quickly players locations were updated?
Hi!
Location update time set at 60s.
Your points line up with what we’ve seen too. LoRa works fine for smaller groups, around 10–20 players, but it starts to struggle once the games get bigger. Ares Alpha needs to also cover large events with hundreds of players—LoRa just can’t keep up. Also, player locations on Ares are usually updated every 10–30 seconds.
Getting feedback from a game with 100+ players using ATAK over LoRa would be super helpful. Real data from a big event would make it much clearer how well the system actually holds up.
We get why an offline mode sounds useful, but with all the limits LoRa has, it’s hard to say if the effort needed to build it would really pay off. I get the feeling it’s also going to be tough to explain to players why things start breaking on larger events 🙂
We haven’t completely dropped the idea, but my guess is that the real solution won’t come from LoRa. It’ll probably have to come from satellite internet instead.