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Been reading a lot about udp based game networking and quite amazed at how much data you can send with very low latency, if you're clever

By custom handling acks, you get a lot more freedom to multiplex with varying degrees of ordering and reliability. This frees up your protocol to do things more concurrently and redundantly to counteract network unreliability.

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