VPNs need to be moderated at minimum
Correct me if my understanding is wrong: 1. A VPN allows you to spoof your location and connect to out of region servers, including 2042. 2. 2042 (and possibly other games) use network balancing / ...
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@ATFGunr A player with a worse ping will not get a "better" ping. The server might decide to sometimes give priority to hits and such for that player, though that depends on the game. Lag compensation also doesn't have to extend to infinity and favor players with 1000ms ping (I have seen such ping, in another game). But we don't know how DICE have decided to do things.
A VPN will not make your data magically travel faster to the server, it just tricks the server into thinking you're elsewhere. You've tricked a US server into thinking you're in the US and not the EU, you're still having your data go all the way there, which will take ~130ms. As a bonus, since you're also going through a VPN, some of them might be laggy and add a few more ms.
The possible issue with VPNs is that the game might favor players with high ping too much, and that there is no hard cap on how high your ping can be and still get favored. The more ping you have, the more delayed everyone else's actions will be (on your screen), giving you a decent advantage as those people 'didn't react' (yet, on your screen). The alternative to this is to make it so when you press W, you only start moving after the server sends the movement data back to you, which will give you heavy motion sickness and explosive vomiting with ping >=50ms, and will still feel bad before you reach extremely low values like 5-10ms.
A VPN will not make your data magically travel faster to the server, it just tricks the server into thinking you're elsewhere. You've tricked a US server into thinking you're in the US and not the EU, you're still having your data go all the way there, which will take ~130ms. As a bonus, since you're also going through a VPN, some of them might be laggy and add a few more ms.
The possible issue with VPNs is that the game might favor players with high ping too much, and that there is no hard cap on how high your ping can be and still get favored. The more ping you have, the more delayed everyone else's actions will be (on your screen), giving you a decent advantage as those people 'didn't react' (yet, on your screen). The alternative to this is to make it so when you press W, you only start moving after the server sends the movement data back to you, which will give you heavy motion sickness and explosive vomiting with ping >=50ms, and will still feel bad before you reach extremely low values like 5-10ms.
A way to visually see lag compensation in action that anyone with a PC can test is to minimize the game window with alt + tab. Wait a few seconds then open the game window.
You'll notice all the players running around really fast like watching a video in fast forward.
This is lag compensation adjusting the game clock on your client to get it synchronized where the game server wants the client's clock to be.
The game server uses lag compensation to adjust the game clocks on all the clients. When you see everything moving in fast forward after minimizing the game window, that's the game server instructing your client to catch it's game clock back up with the server's clock.
- @OskooI_007 I experienced that last night in a bizarre fashion, I couldn’t get a screen shot unfortunately. I jumped on a pondhawk, and rather than the animation the character model stopped and went into a seated position, levitated, turned and lowered into the pondhawk. Not on, into. It then took off and the pilot was floating behind the pondhawk about 5’. I tabbed out, and in the ensuing window minimizing the pilot snapped into the normal riding position. When I went full screen, the whole map was on fast forward for a second or two. This happened the entire round, and was repeatable. Next round, perfectly normal. Some maps even feel “fast” and can last the whole round. Others are the exact opposite and it feels slow. Noticeably fast and slow.
What nobody has really said is if the network compensation can manage the additional load a VPN introduces to a server? I didn’t really explain myself well in the OP.
I’m pro-ping limiter if you’re curious.I'm not too too tech savvy, but how does this work? so, am I only playing people in my region. What would be the radius?
I think it's cool to play with people on different continents. I notice different attitudes and playing styles.
