stackyFACTSThe joy of sitting next to your friend on the couch comes at the horrific cost of rendering the entire world twice simultaneously. Because the poor GPU has to process two completely independent viewpoints, the engine typically aggressively downgrades texture resolutions and cuts framerates in half just to avoid bursting into flames.
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