Netcode almost comically bad at this point.

smsuperfly wrote:

I honestly think they cant fix it at this point or they would of by now.

I genuinely wonder if it's a lack of in-house expertise or a more general issue.

I went googling a few games, and it turns out netcode is an almost universal complaint. BO6 and BO7 have been panned in that regard. So has Valorant, and even CS2, a game I've never had issues with (I wish BF6's netcode was as good as CS2, but then BF6 is tracking so much more stuff). Same for Tarkov, Helldiver 2... I haven't gone too deep, just looking at top results, but over and over again, the same issues seem to arise. 

I have zero experience with netcode, my knowledge is entirely superficial. But I'm starting to think that perhaps there is just no way to manage the delays in a way to feel satisfactory. Dying behind a corner can be mitigated, but never eliminated, you're always going to have that fraction of a delay where you're diving/hiding and they're shooting, and if their information arrives at the servers even 1ms before yours, you'll get a validated kill despite being in cover on your end. 

Note I'm not defending DICE, their game feels a lot worst in this regard than anything else I have played. And they have made design choices that make the netcode feel worst: the fast movement, the low TTK, the slides... All those things that play out in milliseconds, so the slightest delay turns into an unwarranted death. And of course, the way they lost so many players and closed down servers, leading to higher pings and worst experiences.