Re: internet latency & effects on hit registration
Posted: 08 Jul 2021, 13:29
Where do you live? I wonder if this issue is more prevalent in a specific country. I live in Canada (Quebec) and what you've explained is pretty much the same situation I'm in right now. I am considering moving and living somewhere else with FTTH internet but i cannot know for sure if this will do the trick.Silverkuki wrote: ↑19 May 2021, 20:49I want to chime in and add my own personal experiences to this thread so that the others who believe they have a problem don't feel crazy.
Quick backstory, I've been ranked top 1% in a handful of shooters from console to PC. I've been pulling my hair out for about a decade due to numerous "abnormal" issues. It wasn't until I stumbled across this forum that I found a potential answer to the issues... And the issues are numerous:
- interpolation issues where enemies move at lightspeed (sonic the hedgehog strafes)
- bullet refunding, bullet eating, ghost shots
- dying egregiously behind geometry (not a few inches, like 5+ feet)
- shoulder peeking for milliseconds and dying only to see via replay you apparently just stood in the open while the enemy lit you up
- missed/dropped inputs
- feeling like you're moving in mud on certain servers
- entering lobbies where everyone seems a half to full second ahead of you
- miscellaneous but frequent abnormalities
And like everyone else has said, you start to feel crazy because the issues aren't 100% persistent, but they're persistent enough to where you cannot play or game at a competitive level. I thought everyone struggled with these issues back in the day but with the surging popularity of gaming youtube VODs, and justin/twitch livestreaming, it became readily apparent to me that almost no one experienced these same issues I do. And of course, these issues manifest differently in every game so you can't just google what happens and find a rational explanation. But when you see people consistently winning 90% of their gun fights with first shot, and I'm sitting here losing 90% with first shot and perfect accuracy, something is wrong.
I always have decent latency metrics; lowish ping (30 - 60), no packet loss, low jitter, and yet it's obvious to anyone who plays in my home that something is wrong. I fully realized the severity of the issues when I used the LTE hotspot on my phone and had far less "unexplainable issues" but much worse conventional lag (rubber banding, teleporting, ping spikes, packet loss, etc.). How is it possible that it feels better to play on a laggier connection than a "perfect" wired cable connection?
I only know one other person who experiences these issues to the same degree that I do, and he has experienced them in two different homes. When I'd play on my setup at someone else's house everything felt so much slower, effortless, and smooth. I've tried three different ISP's with no success; but varying severity of experienced issues. They all suck, some just sucked less than others. No fibre is available in my area, and I never gamed competitively when I lived elsewhere.
I have tried literally everything; new modems, new ethernet cables, changed location of consoles/pc, new hardware, different ISPs, cable/DSL, etc. Nothing has eliminated these issues. Currently, the plan I'm on is the best it has ever been; but there are still days that I'd rather bash my head against cement than try to play because of how unfair it feels.
The casual players will never recognize the nuances that go into playing a game competitively, and are thus unable to pinpoint when something is wrong with the game, connection, or combination of both. This isn't simple regular every day lag that goes along with the nature of online games, and no one except mello has ever been able to articulate a theory (to me) as to why it happens. The vast majority of people I've spoken to don't even believe I experience these issues because they don't. I'm here to tell the naysayers that it's not just a "git gud" solution.