>>23321680
but it wouldn't be an 18-year-old engine, now would it?
the only thing that's actually server-sided are the tokens, everything else is free reign, sadly
like I said, even tokens were obtained by just abusing client-sided ways to obtain them, such as the case with the clan/monthly tokens

if you actually check the things that are server-sided, it's your matchmaking rating and clan servers. whenever you save the game, you also have a huge ass delay before you can do anything, for what should only take like a second at most. going into the clan terminal also takes fucking years if you do it straight away instead of letting the game cache it in the background for you

in short: the reason why GBO2 is still alive is purely because of how client-sided it is, they must be spending very little on servers due to the peer-to-peer networking, since GunEvo died and that game had dedis