How are trajectories calculated and transmitted to other players in Multi-Player ?

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Published on 2011-06-15T05:06:42Z Indexed on 2011/06/20 16:40 UTC
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I play alot of COD4. And can see tracers for gunfire, missles, care packages fall from helicopters etc.

There is alot of activity. I am curious to know the algorithm (at a high level) that manages all this action when you have 20 people on a map shooting each other to death ?

This question touches on the subject but doesn't ask for a more in-depth answer as to how you the developers go about calculating and transmitting movement and collision detection for projectiles, be it missles/bullets or any other object that is flying through the air in real-time.

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