Lag switching in DUST is detrimental to the person using the lag switch. Although there appears to be alternative means to purposefully inducing lag. Such as spamming equipment, filling a squad with vastly different servers, etc. I don't know which ones cause the lag, but it's in there somewhere.

Id like CCP to make a page to report hackers/moders in Dust. For instance, Clips A'hoy uses a lag switch mod, please look into it. Thank you

Id like CCP to make a page to report hackers/moders in Dust. For instance, Clips A'hoy uses a lag switch mod, please look into it. Thank you

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Do you have proof to support this claim other than "he was lagging when I tried to kill him"?

(FYI, server lag and client lag are two different things.
Server lag translates roughly as internet connection lag, and client lag just poor framerate as your system (ps3) can't draw the screen fast enough.)

And you sir are stupid. Lag switching in dust will just screw you over. Because it is not based on console being the server. Dust is build into a server. Therefor when someone lag switches they freeze themselves into a still target and the server will register all your shots as they sit still. or else the server will compensate and keep the body moving slowly.

lately whenever I squad with people in my corp I get really Laggy (I'm canadian and lots of them are british) and I mostly Nova knife. I'm always afraid someone might think I'm lag switching when I'm not and I don't like people thinking of me as a poor sport. Maybe it's just he squaded with a laggy/other country person :/

please take my limited knowledge into gaming as decent and relevant but inorder to use a lagg switch dont you require to be host of said game???????????? in order to lagg the server how ever dust514 doesnt run on player run servers like black ops 1 for exsample but i may be wrong but the fact that you would almost have to ddos tranquility to do it or the psn network at said time precisly for less than 6 seconds to preform a tricky manouver just seems like your crying over some one lagging get used to it and play pc and tell me if 100% of players are lag switching

[quote=Maken Tosch]FYI, server lag and client lag are two different things.
Server lag translates roughly as internet connection lag, and client lag just poor framerate

Id like CCP to make a page to report hackers/moders in Dust. For instance, Clips A'hoy uses a lag switch mod, please look into it. Thank you

Lag switching does not require making the server lag at all. Lag switching is manually changing your upload speed to something lower to create the illusion of lag on the server side while keeping it smooth on the switchers side by keeping download speed high. make sense?

A dirty Minmatar accusing a true son of God....typical Matari rhetoric.

please take my limited knowledge into gaming as decent and relevant but inorder to use a lagg switch dont you require to be host of said game???????????? in order to lagg the server how ever dust514 doesnt run on player run servers like black ops 1 for exsample but i may be wrong but the fact that you would almost have to ddos tranquility to do it or the psn network at said time precisly for less than 6 seconds to preform a tricky manouver just seems like your crying over some one lagging get used to it and play pc and tell me if 100% of players are lag switching

a lag switch would cause rubber banding, shots on target counting for nothing, clip glitches, and all sorts of other unpleasantness. basically your PS3 is not making the battlefield CCPs servers are and your PC is little more then a viewing window, a workstation building the visuals for the world the servers are building, with out a reliable connection the game is laughably unplayable.

now modded controllers can be used to great effect to give you high fire rate on pull per shot weapons, keep your shots accurate on auto weapons with out a drop in dps, but in the console world modded controllers are pro not cheating. Soooo yea I would suggest getting one.

i dont see this as an issue.

what did concern me at one point in time was when i saw exploding sniper rounds during a pub stomp..
but it was probably just a 2 players shooting a fg and an sr in the same place at the same times.

Lag switching is not illegal. This is New Eden and most things simply are with no good or evil assigned to them by any CCP figurehead or grunt. New Eden is based on player versus player ganking. Get used to it, watch the CCP youtube video about HTFU, that will set your mind right.

Modified controllers are valid as anything that can plug into the PS3 USB port is valid as well. KB/M support requires that to be true, BTW as the PS3, and thus any game on it, is unable to determine that a USB device isn't exactly what it claims to be, modded or not.

For those that have little networking experience the answer is they work regardless of hosting the game or not. Hosting DUST is only possible for CCP as none other have the Ruby scripts to run the server code (some has been converted to C++, not all). The only real tweaking necessary is determining how long the switch needs to drop the network connection. Simply dropping ACKs in reply to a specific type of packet could solve it as well although that would be much more work than a timed button that drops the network connection for n number of milliseconds. Any reasonable adequate electronic tech could knock one out in 20 minutes and that includes rummaging around in the junk parts bin to find the pieces and a 555 timer.

Changing the speed of the network connection is not required as well. Simply have a jumper cable with an inline switch and drop anything that comes along when it looks like someone is gonna kill ya. The internet is built on hardware that was not expected to be perfect. Thus dropped packets and dropped connections in the millisecond range are almost always recoverable. Wires, switch and a little time. The version mentioned above is more elegant but is actually over designed related to the task at hand.

Now to add to our misery, there is no valid method established to determine the difference between a bad internet connection and a lag switcher obsessed piece of Kitten Excrement.


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i need 2 mil isk to alt2 acc please, lost 4 tanks to cheaters, i got some kid down to 500 armor, takew cover for 2 seconds, i go in, he comes out with 6000 armor again