if you got a bunch of people that have hella different pings on a server like some people got 50 and then 20 and then some have 120 and a couple people have 250 how much does this hurt your framerate, hit detection and how much does it increase the chances of problems occuring on a given server?
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Re: differing pings effect
High latency will not affect your framerate, even though it might look like it
Hit detection becomes very random at pings over 150-200, because the actual hitboxes lag behind the visual soldier.
I don't know if high pingers can have an effect on servers stability :S
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Originally posted by Shazanelliif you got alot of people with high pings on the server you are on, it will most probably cause you to lag more.
Ping is the time, in milliseconds it takes for the information to travel between your computer and the server and the back again, much like a radar gun works for measuring something speed.
If you have too high of a ping, f.ex. well over 200, you won't be getting information back to your PC as fast as necessary and you will start to experience "lag" between your commands, the information being sent to the server, and then showing up on your monitor.
This is not the same as choppiness though. Stuttering movement is almost always a system problem (you're PC can't handle the amount of information that is being sent). That can be fixed by lowering the settings or upgrading hardware.
The effect of too high of ping, which causes lag, would be when you fire at an enemy, and he doesn't die. It is because you are firing where the enemy used to be, but your PC hasn't caught up yet (because the response time (ping) is too high). High ping WILL NOT affect FPS.
Under normal circumstances you won't experience lag if you keep your ping well below 200 (I don't play on servers where my ping is above 150-ish.
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actually when i was playing on the NFB server i had 250 ping (not so good but commanding goes fine) funny thing is i couldn't kill with the damn scar so i took the voss rofl i managed to kill 2 people and on vent my mates were like did DT just made a kill with 450 ping? but it seems people with lower ping are able to kill high pingers faster
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Originally posted by Dtneter View Postbut it seems people with lower ping are able to kill high pingers faster
The information takes longer to travel back from to server to you, than it would for me.
When there are a lot of people with a high ping, it doesn't affect you directly, but you will be observing the effects of their high ping.
It's a cause/effect confusion.
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Originally posted by Chris--My--azz View Posthaving a high ping actually affects the feel of teh game aswell it's alot more glitchy and less resonsive .. ur controls will feel "floaty" and you will clip and catch on objects all over the place
i think it has more to do with your processor, ram, and the server that you are playing on rather than simply what your ping is
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