Ping Exploit : the "legal" cheat.

(aherys) #1

Hi guys, since two week, i see many team who play from other continent (like USA team play on EU team, or Asia team…). Where is the probleme ? … this game favorise high ping, if someone have a high ping, he can hit, but he can’t be hitten (or it’s very hard… i don’t know how to work the hitbox on DB, but, it’s just insane to hit someone who lag).

So, now, i see many team just going on another continent to have free win in ranked, like them :

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I also try this, i go to NA, and… same story, i have 260 ping, i can hit w/o any probleme everybody, but, maybe i should screen the chat… they can’t hit me (one bullet on two just pass over me). To add more fun to this experiment : just jump, and, no one can hit you. And if you are a bad person, just go with phantom, they will just rage quit to see someone run on a straight line, take no one bullet and can kill you.

(Volcano) #2

my group plays on US or Asia because we cant find a game on AUS or we are dodging a known hacker in our area. i also get 200 ping to my aus servers in mm despite being in the same country as it so thats always nice to play with

(aherys) #3

i understood what you say, the probleme is it’s… unfair for others.

Paradoxally, players with an higher ping should be disadvantaged, but the netcode of DB (look like) give too much importance about client position, and not server position.

The good solution is to implement a ping limite, like 150 for ranked.

(Violator) #4

There were talks of ping limiting to stop this happening (its bad for high pingers in different ways as well). Anyone above 100 ping will start to get corner kills on you but it was a lot worse in alpha / early CBT.

(Mustang) #5

That is not the solution, that is a solution; another possible solution would be to improve server-side checks.

(aherys) #6

Not really… server-side check have his limits, and it’s very hard to have a netcode who work well with different pings.
Dont allow high ping -> better game for all, except, people, who wanna want to play on another region server.

(Phantomchan) #7

I think this is something being quite abused. I personally think people with a ping higher than 150 shouldn’t be able to play on that server.

(Ashog) #8

Imho the advantage of hpb’s was always persistent in DB and is still a huge problem. As Vio said it was much worse at some point, but the problem is still there lurking, maybe not so visible nowadays since people just mostly gave up on playing intercontinentals. But it seems now after ranked was brought to life some people realised how they could abuse this problem in their favour.
Not being an expert in “this fings”, I am afraid that limiting pings could be the only solution…
At least I have no problems with this limit, but asia and australians might have problems to find any mm games at all then.