Forgive my ignorance, but does a high ping player not have to deal with their enemies jumping around as well? I'm pretty tech savy, but am somewhat networking ignorant.
If a ping is how long it takes to send/receive data from the server, would it not work both ways?
@blkarmphoenixwas typing out an explanation but confused myself cuz apparently I don't know English.
Pretty much, with the way they tackled this issue, the player with highping is only moving around kinda slugish while the player viewing them sees them skipping around. I've played on a highping before and everything seems normal unless the action gets really intense, in which case the game kicks you.
The high ping player freezes in one spot (from the POV of the normal ping player) but if you shoot at that spot, the player is not actually there but in a different location, thus they appear to be skipping.
(FYI - Not savy myself in this but taking basic ideas from what I've seen)
@hayhoranything over a 100 is high. I play on EU as well and its only 75ms which is acceptable. Players lets say from brazil trying to ping on US servers run around with over 150ms which is a problem. Also, dont forget there are third party programs that throttle your connection raising your ping just to try to gain an advantage in fights, so yes. Every fps needs to have ping lock with out question. Thats the main reason we need ping lock to combat throttlers, period.
20 years ago Counter-Strike auto kicked high pingers. 15 years ago BF2 had auto kick for high pingers. Modern gaming is sad compared to the kind of net performance you could expect and that was with much less bandwidth all those years ago.
The integrity of the game performance should be something very important to gamers yet it isn't. Discussions like this need to more common. People will use VPN's still to abuse ping and get around region locking so kicking high ping has to be the way to ensure good performing servers.
I agree with @notCatnip,i play from the middle east and we have no choice because the closest server we have is the singapore server.which is like 100 ping,and i have the same issues which @notCatnip had,People always had an edge over me.i couldnt even shoot the enemies properly,I thought i was really bad at the game,and i looked up countless guides but nothing helped me.In the end,i started reading about hackers and stuff prominent in the asian servers,so i decided to shift to the next closest server,which was the belgium server(around 139 ping)
Then the tides turned in my favor.I was able to hit targets more consistently,and i felt like i became a god at the game.
So I really dont know if auto-kicking can be a viable option for many.If u dont believe me,feel free to try out one of the asian servers like singapore and hong kong.Even my man @jumanjaydazed would agree about hackers in these servers
