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Posted - 2014.08.25 14:39:00 -
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LOL, people who still blame lag-switching in a game where lag-switching doesn't work.
zzZaXxx wrote:lionshead nebula wrote:if i remember correctly you usually have worse lag than others, mainly your internet may be to blame. Whatever. Do your corpies know you're a lying backstabber?
He's a Goon. That's a point of pride.
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Posted - 2014.08.25 15:14:00 -
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zzZaXxx wrote:Soraya Xel wrote:Devs are not mysterious. Devs are busy. There's a difference. Yes yes but why doesn't lag switching work in Dust? If it's not that what is it?
Okay, so lag switching works on games where a player is the host. This was done notably in Call of Duty, to save money. Rather than Activision actually host their own servers, they would allow the lowest latency player to be the server for the rest of the team. Lag switchers would have a great internet connection, and be selected the host for the game. Then, once the match started, they'd flip on the lag switch, and while they continued to have 0 latency, other players would experience soul-crushing lag.
Unlike these games, DUST uses battle servers that all players connect to, and no user has control of the server. This means that a player who lag switches actually slows themselves down, not everyone else. Lag switching does not work in DUST. It never has, it never will. Anyone who says otherwise, is clueless.
The reason there's more lag in DUST is because most games are much more compartmentalized location-wise. In a lot of games, you're playing mostly people in the same geographic area, not just "in the US" perhaps, but "on the west coast". On the other hand, DUST places all people in North and South America in the same battle server. And in PC, it's even common for players to be playing against people on another continent.
The very selling point of DUST and New Eden, that it's all one universe, is actually what causes the lag. Because on almost no other game will you ever be fighting people over an ocean.
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Posted - 2014.08.25 17:58:00 -
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zzZaXxx wrote:Less players so more bad combinations being forced to fill matches?
We're actually not down on players really... at all. Statistically, I actually think we have more players now than we did before Fanfest on a regular basis.
http://eve-offline.net/?server=dust
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