I've noticed in a few games played that I was getting serious lag issues (nothing new) and the same guy was topping the opposition board.

I hunted him out the next match I saw him in and sure enough he was jerking side to side instead of strafing and my bullets were not registering at all. He was getting 4 on 1nd and still walking away with full shields and armour most times.

All in all if he can get away with whatever he's doing it's not an issue for me, just putting it out there for the community.

Anyone had a similar experience?

Lag switches don't work on dedicated servers.

You were on a different server, and you fought a good player.

Framerate issues+Strafing glitch=basically invincible congratulations that thing people call a skill works even better when the game client glitches out what a coincidence

I don't really know much about this.

Heavy Breaks, could you give me a quick explanation of how lag switches work, and how they create the behaviour you've described?

there's also a common framerate problem when trying to track a target at point-blank. they seem to stutter-skip when they strafe rather than move fluidly making it hard to predict.

Also I have had issues with the Forge Gun charging animation causing my framerate to turn stupid, causing things like stuttering dropships and such.

These problems are consistent enough for me that in order for me to buy into OMG LAGSWITCH! theories, everyone would have to be using them.

or CCP hates me and has nerfed me.

I don't really know much about this.

Heavy Breaks, could you give me a quick explanation of how lag switches work, and how they create the behaviour you've described?

I know the difference between different regions and something dodgy.

This thread says otherwise.

They can do all sorts of things. The main one is freezing time ingame and unfreezing it very rapidly. It causes you to kinda phase in and out making it really hard to kill or even be seen sometimes. Not that clued up on them myself but come across lots of people who've used them in my time.

Thanks Heavy. How does a lag switch freeze time in game?

I have my own theory :

CCP is ninja testing NPC's for PVE.... have you seen some of the names in the pre-match board ? Also the way that people seems to mysteriously appear behind you, and shoot you down ?

Or maybe is just me been paranoid .... or do i ?

By flicking your connection off and on.

I'm not sure exactly, like I said not used one.

To people that say they don't work on dedi servers. Lag switching started on Counter strike. CS was/is a dedi only game. Explain your reason they don't work on dedi servers please.

In your opinion.

No, it's a fact, well established by the evidence.

No, it's a fact, well established by the evidence.

Ah, good you just clarified how unintelligent you are.

I play with and against most of the most skilled players in the game.
Generally on the US region from the UK and I haven't come across anything like this before.

So you had no evidence and it seems you are wrong. And so am I to some extent. Or am I....

If must have been a really bad server translation or severe lag that just happened to give him an advantage. If as the above poster stated they really won't work.

From my understanding a lag switch either interrupts server traffic or floods it with datacausing everyone but the lag switcher to slow down as the server catches up but everything I know about such things states that a lag switch should not work in games with an online architecture like Dust

No. A lag switch momentarily disconnects the owner from the network, and then reconnects. This can happen several times a second. This makes the lagswitch owner lag to other players, thus making the owner harder to hit. This doesn't really work in a situation where the server authenticates everything, like Dust.

This is my understanding.