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To be clear, not all games are networked using the deterministic lockstep technique but most realtime games (FPS and so on) do use UDP to send time critical data, and implement some aspects of reliability, ordering and congestion avoidance within their own custom protocol.



Yeah sorry -- I should have been more clear. I didn't mean to imply most games use deterministic systems.




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