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		choo-t on Sept 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses Making occlusion calculation sever-side during multiplayer have nothing to do with "owning" a game or not. You can even do this calculation on community-run private server.

dumbo-octopus on Sept 7, 2024 [–]

If all surfaces are fully opaque, maybe. The second particle effects and volumetric effects and all sorts of advanced techniques play a role in actual gameplay, no. And that’s only for this one type of cheating.

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