That's weird, top-down games usually have a clearly defined fog-of-war so it's relatively simple for the server to withhold information that clients don't need

That's weird, top-down games usually have a clearly defined fog-of-war so it's relatively simple for the server to withhold information that clients don't need to know. Maybe they cheaped out by using peer-to-peer netcode in that version, so there isn't an authoritative dedicated server?