Hey folks!
Just dropping our latest update on the recent anti-cheat progress.
Work is always ongoing on this front, but here's a quick look at some of the improvement we've seen since the recent changes.
@BallisticMVPThe 20 "ticks" arent that huge of an issue. At least not to the extend some ppl might think. You can read about it over here :
https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/apex-legends/news/servers-netcode-developer-deep-dive
Bad Serverperformance and the resulting bad server frametimes are imho a much bigger problem.
Also that the matchmaker still sends you to servers that are routed poorly by your isp. In lots of other games, i can just avoid playing those by choosing a different one in the server browser.
I get having a lobby combined with a matchmaker, but it should be possible to flag certain servers as bad , so you wont be connected to them again.
Also the fact that a lot of high ping players play in regions they shouldn't be able to connect to, eg. (Australian/Indian Players connecting to Europe for various reasons) attributes to a weird game feeling.
And i also read somewhere that Apex combines multiple shots in larger packets ... if one of those packets get lost or being too late all of those shots go into the void ...
Wrong client prediction also can * up your gameplay, the main reason for weird behavior, the game client presents you with a state that is fictional and when reality kicks in ... its like in fast forward. (Those : I get shot in split seconds wth moments).
Partly the Game isnt responsible for eg. the bad routing, which would show as loss/choke/bad ping in the performance overlay .
But the game is responsible for wrong predictions, bad server frametimes and a variety of bugs that play into that.
a lot of those game servers dont belong to EA itself, are rented by other companies.
EA relies on the server providers not to interfere with the gameplay ...
So it might be difficult to pinpoint the culprit for some of the issues.
Serverproviders could easily throttle traffic or throttle cpu cycles :
As a real life example : you cant hold Jack Daniels responsible for the barkeeper to "water-up" your drink.
