- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Synthmilk
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It is by far easier to get a kill with low ping, your poll and question entirely miss the point I was making.
However, if we are talking someone with low ping, and someone with a significantly higher ping (say, +100 relative to the lower ping person), it is possible that the higher ping player will have an advantage, due to how the 56k netcode compensates by favouring the higher ping player's signal above the person with the lower ping, thus causing the lower ping player to experience a higher degree of lag effects when playing the high ping player, while the high ping player will have less lag effect against the low ping player, thus making it more difficult for the low ping player to hit the high ping player, and visa versa for the low ping player, I bet most of the time the differences are not noticeable and player skill nullifies it, but sometimes it can have a great affect and result in those rare instances that I am positive many people have noticed where somone is just owning, and it's less that he is a really good shot and more that people just can't seem to hit him.
I was being general and just using the most basic of examples with my +100 ping statement, so don't go arguing numbers.
Why would a more lag for the high ping player make it more difficult for him to get hit? It obviously would NOT. Both players connections fo to the server, then to the opposition. This means that if you have lower ping to the server, you lead less. You would not have any advantage what so ever with a higher ping unless you were downloading in which case you would warp.
You should blame so much of gameplay on ping, high ping is obviously a disadvantage in all scenarios unless you are capping, then it can sometimes be an advantage. When killing if you get a lower ping, and face a guy with higher ping, you have the advantage always.