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AI-generatedSource engine concurrent client input serialization latency limit
The goal is to define the concurrent client input threshold at which a Source engine server's deterministic lock-step simulation begins to serialize inputs across a single tick and produce measurable latency spikes. The server processes client commands sequentially per tick, so rapid simultaneous input from many clients can exceed the simulation step budget,
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