Lag Compensation, how should it be handled?

[Ghosthree3]

That’s because the spectator client is not lag compensated, you see what the server sees before lag comp is applied. They are actually hitting the target on their screen. If someone were to spectate you, they’d see you missing all your shots too. It’s pretty shit and they need to fix that.

It does make spectate pretty useless.

[Dirmagnos]

BS. If hits weren’t registering then we wouldn’t have lag compensation, that’s what it does (Though with packet loss, not high ping, it can become inconsistent). As for feeling like you’re shooting a wall, that’s what happens when you’re the high pinger, doesn’t matter who you shoot, it takes longer for the server to relay info back to you so it feels like shooting walls, and you waste ammo. Shouldn’t be a problem for a low ping player. If it is it’s not cause of lag compensation, it’s because of how the game relays information.

BS back at you. High pingers get hits registered with delays, but they do register, thats the thing with compensations. But when you shoot a lagger and nothing, not now nor later, then its bs.
And dont give me that crap about high pings or packet loss, its not my first rodeo. My average ping is around 40 and ive alredy seen players lagswitching couple of times.

[Amerika]

Lagswitching is a term that gets thrown around a lot even though it’s rarely ever a thing. Most people who randomly ping spike simply have bad internet in their area that chokes at certain times (I used to have this issue myself). Others are on a WiFi connection that has somebody else taking up all the limited bandwidth streaming Netflix. Or their WiFi is being interfered with baby monitors (a problem for people in apartment buildings mostly) and other similar devices that use the same frequency and channels at traditional 2.4ghz WiFi. Or they have torrents going in the background and don’t realize it.

When a person “lagswitches” it means that they know they can gain an advantage in a situation where they lag like crazy. It’s something that is a lot more common in fighting games because people will do it when you’re trying to do a combo to them and the lag makes you drop it. It’s not as prevalent in FPS games because there is little advantage to be gained other than trying to make them get near the end of their mag while trying to hit you. And then unload on them.

So most of the time you see peoples ping spiking or warping it’s due to the other things I mentioned and isn’t intentional.

[avidCow]

Haven’t seen any lag switching since killzone 2. It was proper bad back then.