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New Veteran

1 month ago

Netcode badly needs a good cleanup

I know, yet another net code thread... But I wanted to report a weird one today:

Playing with a 65ms lag (not ideal obviously, but no servers left in my region, so...), I'm waiting beside a door for an enemy marked on the mini map to come through. What I see is them running through and past me, never stopping, but I do die, and the death cam shows their outline in red facing me right after they went across the doorway. So running guy in normal colors on the far left, red outline shooting in the middle.

So what am I supposed to make of this? What did actually happen? Did they stop, turn around and shoot me, before resuming their run? Then they couldn't possibly have run as far as what the game showed me. And if not, why does the game shows me they did? Or was it a sideway slide and somehow the game showed me something entirely different, yet still internally inconsistent?

It's not lag, not rubberbanding, or any of the stuff I would usually see with other games. It's a completely nonsensical scene. It makes every kill and death untrustworthy, because you cannot trust what you see.

You can't have a ttk this low and netcode this bad, it just feels horrible. Please sort it out.

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12 Replies

AlphiB
New Veteran
1 month ago
Another one today, still with similar lag (65ms):
I engage with an enemy in the open street. We're both crouching, strafing, and he gets me. Except...
The log shows he shot me 5 times with his main gun, and once with his secondary pistol. But he never changed gun on my screen, and he's still holding his main weapon on the kill cam. Not only that, I seriously doubt he would have won if he had had to change weapon. Clearly there was a complete mismatch with what I was shown and what actually happened.
This net code is complete and utter garbage. I have never, EVER seen a game that so often misrepresents on screen what is actually happening.
Conotocarius
New Novice
1 month ago
I regularly get 12ms ping, when I squad up with some friends, I sometimes get 70ms ping. The netcode seems to be just as bad with lower ping. I don't know how many times I've cleared a corner and still get shot. They are trying way too hard to "accommodate" the lesser skilled players by messing with the hitreg to the point where it doesn't work properly at all.
The base mechanics of the game are broken. They really need to divert all resources to fix this first.
I'm not sure who's in charge and making decisions but they really need to get rid of that person or people. They want to layoff the programmers who are necessary to fix these issues but these useless execs keep their jobs?
Its like, the ship has holes in the hull and they've decided to upgrade the gps, sonar and ice machine first while the ship is sinking.
They've released a roadmap primarily based on the whining of unskilled players and influencers.
And they really need to give up on redsec and battle royale. They keep trying to entice people to play it by offering rewards. Its a stupid idea and the people behind it need to be fired. They can polish and gussy up that **bleep** all they want, not gonna make it any less of a **bleep**.
Its quite unfortunate since this game has so much potential.