Faster joins during busy periods
A wave of players logging in at once no longer stalls everyone - joins got their own dedicated handling.
What changed
- When many players logged in at the same moment - restarts, vote pushes, events - each join competed for the same thread of work as everything else, and everyone felt the stall.
- Joins now run on their own dedicated handling, so a busy login rush processes in parallel instead of forming a queue that delays the whole server.
- You will notice this most right after a restart or during a drop party: getting in is fast no matter how many others are arriving with you.