Aug 19, 2008, 12:02 PM
Oh! Oh!
Seconded.
If I understand things right Valves implementation of lag compensation actually penalizes low pingers by jittering their timeline to compensate for the difference between you and your high ping buddy (sniper).
Good reading:
http://tf2wiki.net/wiki/Lag_compensation
An older but still pretty nice walk-though of the feature:
http://rocketland.planetquake.gamespy.co...1100.shtml
And from the source:
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/...mpensation
edited to remove the endlagnow post which was more ad then info (DOH!).
Seconded.
If I understand things right Valves implementation of lag compensation actually penalizes low pingers by jittering their timeline to compensate for the difference between you and your high ping buddy (sniper).
Good reading:
http://tf2wiki.net/wiki/Lag_compensation
An older but still pretty nice walk-though of the feature:
http://rocketland.planetquake.gamespy.co...1100.shtml
And from the source:
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/...mpensation
edited to remove the endlagnow post which was more ad then info (DOH!).