PvE and PvP don't use the same code (Destiny)

by Earendil, Wednesday, December 16, 2015, 17:59 (3501 days ago) @ Kahzgul

They could share enough where it matters, but there was a talk by Bungie some time ago where they laid out some of the differences, and how PvE netcode was really whacked in an awesome way. The entire partial host and host bubbles for PvE, and how the player host for an area migrates on average every 8 (if memory serves) seconds. Truly amazing stuff for the PvE spaces.

But yeah, you are correct that the PvP doesn't use the traditional setup, and no doubt some of that was because they wanted to reuse some of the work they put into the PvE code.