WHAT MAKES APEX TICK: A DEVELOPER DEEP DIVE INTO SERVERS AND NETCODE

They indeed talked about the package sizes before, @DoYaSeeMe. But never as in-depth as this article!

@BaldWraithSimp That is really far away from each other. Though, there are tools and things that require complete map updates in Apex. As they explained, Respawn is able to make tools that require those. I've tried to put some more example cases here:

• The update of usage of respawn beacons on the map.
• The update of trident locations in Olympus.
• The notification - and amazing far - transportation of a player in the phase runner.
• Sniper shots on long distances.
• Gibby/Bangalore ults raining down.
• Flyers that fly over/loot bot that you can see from the dropship.
• The World Edge train, obviously.

Like you wouldn't want to sit in Fragment East and suddenly the train pops out of nowhere because the server only decides to show that one in a certain range.