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by VohuMana 1026 days ago
This is really cool, I play Star Citizen a bit every time they release a new version just to see what they are up to. Persistent Entity Streaming was tech they were working on for a long time, it had a bit of a rocky launch but seems to be pretty smooth now. Crazy to see how much went into shipping that.

For anyone curious what PES does, when a player places an object somewhere or for example their ship explodes, that object will remain on the server in the same place even if you disconnect. Seems fairly simple from a user perspective but required a lot of changes to make work apparently.