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Comment by jaoane

4 days ago

That’s not how it works in World of Warcraft though. The server only sends the client the absolute state of the world on login. Then it’s all relative updates. Like: unit X lost 13 hit points. The client derives the current state from that. So UDP is inappropriate because you need things to be ordered.

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