How would you account for an event during which time is very important? Most games use frames and the simulations take place in time steps. What if an event occurred that needed a specific time to take place on?
For example, in a game like DOTA, attack speed is very important. Now, let's say the time-step for this game is 50ms. Two heroes are fighting. HeroA attacks HeroB and lands a "killing blow" at 14ms into the time-step. HeroB attacks HeroA and also lands a "killing blow", only this occurs at 40ms into the time-step. However, neither one of these blows will be simulated until the 50ms time-step. Therefore, at 50ms, both heroes will be killed when really only HeroA should be left standing because he managed to attack first.
Is there some way to account for this?
I don't know how your game architecture is designed, but if you are able to get the timestamps of your events, you can easily put them into a buffer with another
Threadand process them in the time specific order every 50ms.