I'm creating sets of entities (characters) that independently move/function but are also repeated x10 into a superset. Then that superset of 10 characters is repeated 10 times. This creates over 1000 individual Source 2 entities. To reduce the total entities, I gradually replace the original supersets of 10 characters with a single set of entities that appear the same as a group of 10 characters moving together in synchronization but are actually only one character and are 1/10th the number of entities of what they replace. So on completing the creation of what looks like 100 moving/functioning characters, there are in fact only 10 characters, each consisting of about the same number of entities as an original single character at the start.

The above setup works well as long as the player remains active in the map at least until all the replaced character entities have been killed. If the player's headset goes to sleep before the above replacement/kill cycle has completed and the player returns after it is complete then there is a frame time that is more than 2x longer than if the player never left. That's about a video killing 16ms average frame time verses 6ms.

So I'm using templates to create all this and I tried using the kill hierarchy commands but they would never remove any entities created by the templates. So I resorted to just making Logic Relays that destroy the entities in a hierarchy of least parenting first. That appears to work fine.

So while this issue does not stop the map from working it does prevent the player from leaving the map and expecting to return until this entity replacement completes. So am I causing this issue by not using the template kill hierarchy ?