The update landed on Vanar' Virtua game world, while players were already inside the session.
A VGN lobby on Vanar was running hot. No downtime window. No empty room to patch against. A creator pushed a small change... asset order, timing tweak, nothing dramatic.
Half the lobby saw it. Half didn’t.
No crash. No rollback. The match kept moving like both versions were fine. Then the chat line hits: “why is mine different?” Another: “same lobby, bro.” Two screenshots show up back to back. Same minute. Different state.
Ops looked at logs. Clean.
Support looked at clips. Conflicting.
In Vanar’s VGN rooms, the update doesn’t wait for a clean handoff. It just arrives mid-session, and players become the diff checker.
Nobody has a version number.
Just receipts.