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by foota 25 days ago
How would it help? MMOs generally don't need to know where things are right now since it's mostly static, no?
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WoW has a lot of mechanics involving line of sight (eg a spell you begin casting when the target was in LOS will fail when the casting time finishes if the target moves out of LOS) and positioning (AOE spells, spell ranges, NPCs/objects you can interact with only within a certain range, among many others)