How do multiplayer shooter video games track bullets. In games like Battlefield thousands of “bullets” can be fired in a round. How does the game know who fired what and who hit/killed who?

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How do multiplayer shooter video games track bullets. In games like Battlefield thousands of “bullets” can be fired in a round. How does the game know who fired what and who hit/killed who?

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Answer 1

Many shooter games don’t even track bullets. They just see what you’re looking at when you click the mouse to fire a bullet. Then they do damage to that thing. At no point does the game actually create a bullet. It’s just “click to do damage”