Server tickrate

They introduced the information compression with BFV, I believe to compensate for the bigger maps.

The code is still in there, and I doubt it is working as well as in BFV ...

So Magic Bullets are still a thing, and the "feel" like you got a tank shell to your head.

Well could be all fixed if the community would be able to rent servers like in the good old days.

Magic bullets are due to people playing with poor connections that have high jitter or packet loss….the server is struggling with inconsistent information being sent from the client so it’s bullet bundling multiple hits into a single packet

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@kregora wrote:
@AdamonicThe "getting killed around the corner" issue definitely happens more often on low tick servers. But the "magic insta-kill bullets" happens more often on high tick servers.

So 60Hz should become standard, but when @CyberDyme observations are correct, I wonder if there maybe is an issue with migh ticks on previous gen consoles?

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Hi @kregora ,

No the old gen consoles (certainly like the PS4 i used to play BF3/BF4 on), did perfectly well also connecting to and playing on higher tick servers!

We had a shorter period of time when EA/DICE had indeed some servers running at 60Hz and some even up at the 120Hz rate I think it was.  Some other vets may recall this for certain, but think that was the highest we got for the PlayStation.  So the consoles can definitely handle it.

But as said by @emerson1975 and others, it all down to the money that EA./DICE are willing to spend on it, because its more expensive to rent the higher tick servers from their server park partners vs when just getting some 30-45Hz servers instead.

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@emerson1975 wrote:

Magic bullets are due to people playing with poor connections that have high jitter or packet loss….the server is struggling with inconsistent information being sent from the client so it’s bullet bundling multiple hits into a single packet

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BINGO!

Exactly right @emerson1975 !

And the player's connection quality is also an important part of why EA/DICE Sr Mgt have simply just concluded: "Why should we spend money and drop our profits by offering high tick servers, when the many players connecting, are connecting with so poor line quality that the game experience will be suffering anyway!?"

This is understandable to some degree, and then again not.  Mainly because it is EA/DICE themselves that have not enforced minimum restrictions of players for them to be able to connect to a given game server.  E.g. we have Japanese and South American players that have no restrictions in forcing themselves onto playing on European based servers, despite such players have a ping rate of e.g. 700-1,600ms!!!  By connecting to such far out of own region servers, they cause these servers to instantly start lagging for everybody else playing on the same server and also causing the bullet sponging in the game play that are frustrating everybody. 

Its ok to want to play with some of your far out of region friends, but can we please agree that you should then host servers for that purpose and not just allow this misery to be spread across all other servers at the same time, causing the gameplay to be terrible for the vast majority of other players who do not enjoy such poor gaming experience.

Just reading some online notices that COD MW offers 4k at 120Hz screen refresh rate for both Xbox and PS5 gameplay.

Is this really true? 

I am not playing COD myself, but if so, definitely then another area where EA/DICE appear to be loosing out badly and have done nothing for BF2042 to be a modern produced FPS game, as the specs mainly remained exactly the same as previous already released games in the franchise.

E.g. as we just debated here in this thread, the 45Hz server tick rate in BF2042 is nothing new and more actually a step back compared to what we have tried with higher tick rates in previous battlefield games.  So why this degeneration?

They moved?

But the issues are still there after half a year. In this period Dice LA joined BF4 to fix the game. But it dont looks like they did anything or planed anything.

Season one starts with the same server problems as they  had at the launch. So the servers doesnt handle the ammount of players (looks like nothing has upgraded)

Low tick rate along with players playing non local servers has made the game a complete mess and far worse than launch ever was in regards to netcode!

Bullets not getting hit markers but getting blood splatter along with a weird delay in hit markers and kills then we have insta deaths eighty percent of the  time and dying meters behind cover, this has made the game completely unplayable with my massive ping of 20ms