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+This method's progress can be seen in the "Downloading workshop addons..." dialogue box while joining.
 The following Steam Workshop collection is used to carry out this process along with some serverside scripts: [[https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2459565773]]
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 ===== Hotloading =====
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-While not an official term, hotloading is a very effective way of fetching sounds and models lazily. This is done by asynchronously downloading addons from the workshop and then slowly mounting them to mitigate crashes. This, being a non-sequential process, allows the player to join the server without having to wait for the files to be fully downloaded first. **The tradeoff of this method is that they may see missing textures and errors for a bit depending on their setup.**
+While not an official method, hotloading is a very effective way of fetching sounds and models lazily. This is done by asynchronously downloading addons from the workshop and then slowly mounting them to mitigate crashes. This, being a non-sequential process, allows the player to join the server without having to wait for the files to be fully downloaded first. **The tradeoff of this method is that they may see missing textures and errors briefly.**
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-This method can be seen doing its thing when a workshop popup that has the word "Hotload" appears. Although, subsequent joins will see it using local files instead, which are shown as numbers.
+This method can be seen doing its thing when a workshop download popup with the word "Hotload" appears while joining or in the game. Although, subsequent joins will see it using local files instead, which are shown as numbers in the popup.
+When the downloads are finished, it will begin mounting the downloaded contents, which can be heard as "tu-tae-tu" sounds in regular intervals.
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