Slow Motion Servers
What is up with those slow motion servers? Today i've been in one every 10th game or so. This latest one was REALLY slow! 10 sec in game took like 1 minute in real life. AND NO! Admins, the problem...
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It the problem where on clientside, i would be the only one affected. But in the cases of slow motion from start, it affects everyone. Me and my whole squad and everyone in the match. That would be if one client can affect a whole server, but a config like that would be redicilous. :P
So i'm not alone when it happens. I will try to get my friend to post his recording of the game.
The upside is that you have so much time to aim, that every shot is a headshot. :P
So i'm not alone when it happens. I will try to get my friend to post his recording of the game.
The upside is that you have so much time to aim, that every shot is a headshot. :P
It can be client-side and still affect everyone equally. E.g., imagine a line of code (client side): "slow game down, if 10 players within 1km distance". Most of the 11 players would be experiencing that slowdown when they group up. And if a squad moves together, they would all be affected equally.
Of course, the reality is probably not a line of intentional bad code, but the idea is that client-side doesn't mean that everyone can't be experiencing the same thing at the same time.
IF this problem IS actually client side and PC-dependent then it is a very serious problem giving a huge disadvantage to anyone with weaker PC's.
- Hence me doubting it can be clientside at all. Because it seems to affect the whole server, not a limited zone of the map. You clearly see it when you drop as well.
Since EA run their game servers of Amazon, wich are not gaming servers, and where never made to host gaming servers. You have issues there alone. Could be some of the their servers that is hosting a game or two that can't handle the incoming requests and actually slow the whole thing down as a solution, to be able to handle the incoming data?
I'm no network engineer here, but i do know when it is on server side and not client, in most cases. :P this is one of those cases.
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