In 1.1 you can already remotely change the direction of entities. The problem is, that you can do so only by ghost-rebuilding the entity, while the "R" button to just rotate doesn't work, which makes another inconsistency compared to local building. Internally we had quite a lot of logic related to "real direction" and "future direction", which had to be considered in a lot of places and it was always bringing more and more problems.