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Right, and that's why I like this approach (that I'm doing and it seems the Ambient lib is built for from the examples I looked at) because there is an actual architecture that is designed for networking from day one and visiting netcode isn't as bad an issue because it's mostly just regular game-code as long as the core principles are followed.

We've had generations of games that was built as webs-of-objects (and popular engines that still default to it), and yes, adding and maintaining netcode with that is like pulling tooth because you need to manually keep track of so much.

This puts netcode mostly as an automatable task with clear default rules, stuff like hiding players/entities out of sight becomes filters (in the same way as not updating far-away stuff).