For an offline only game, how does not preloading sounds impact being able to play them the first time?
Even if offline, playing non preloaded sounds the first time can still result in a delay as the audio is loaded into memory from disk.
The delay may not be large enough to be noticable for a small file though.
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Oh yeah, you're right. A large sound wouldn't be able to play until fully loaded to memory because it isn't streaming like audio in the music folder.