On 6/9/05, Jeffrey botman Broome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff Fearn wrote: > > > > Clearly I am missing some fundamental understanding of how the lag > > compensation works because I don't get how you come to this conclusion > > from this scenario. Can you recommend a good discussion on lag > > compensation? > > > > Lag compensation basically allows the server to move everyone back in > time to the point when I fired my weapon to see if I hit anybody. > > That's how people can run around behind cover and still get killed by > somebody that they just hid from. > > The "multiplayer networking" tome does a pretty good job of explaining > this... > > http://www.valve-erc.com/srcsdk/general/multiplayer_networking.html > > (scroll to the bottom, see the pretty pictures).
hmmm I suppose what I need is a discussion of the flaws and exploits of such a system, because I still can't get how the server can allow someone to say I did this at tick 4000 and have the server process that at server tick 2000. I can see how exploiting lag compensation could allow you to speed up by a factor or two, but the hacks I have seen have been measured in magnitudes. "Let's say a player shoots at a target at client time 10.5. The firing information is packed into a user command and sent to the server. While the packet is on its way through the network, the server continues to simulate the world, and the target might have moved to a different position. The user commands arrives at server time 10.6 and the server wouldn't detect the hit, even though the player has aimed exactly at the target. This error is corrected by the server-side lag compensation" According to this it should be time based, if I speed up my comps time I'm sending commands from the games future, how the hell do these get processed when no one else is at that time? How would setting sv_unlag 0 affect a speed hack? Jeff _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
