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Catch up Impossible

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2 hours ago
Can someone tell me why when I lag out and rejoin, I have to go through the entire game again? It takes like 15 min to go thorough 1.5 hours of gameplay before I can actually play again. Why can't we just jump to the latest moment instead of going through everything again?
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118 minutes ago
yeah, wish i knew too. I feel like it's the way games are recorded in spring rts
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Its a lockstep engine, most or all of the data that is exchanged between clients are the commands that players give to their units. Everything else is simulated locally. There never is a definitive gamestate that could be downloaded that would allow you to jump in at a specific point in time.

The reason this is done so is among other things the sheer amount of data that would have to be sent to do it any other way.
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