If a game has the same lines of code across all players, then why do some bugs only affect certain players?

Question

I was playing a game earlier when a friend was experiencing a bug. Wouldn’t it make sense for me to be experiencing the same bug since were playing the same game that’s coded with the same lines of code?

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Answer 1

The code contains lots of conditional statements, e.g.

If this happens, do that.
If this hardware exists, do this.
If these conditions happen, do that.

So when the code executes, it doesn’t always follow the same path. Some players may take the code down a less used path where the bug exists.