Comments on: New network test

By: Blacksheepboy

Blacksheepboy — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:27:05 +0000

Cool.

By: ZeroG001

ZeroG001 — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:37:52 +0000

O_o….looks fine to me. I see what you may be trying to fix though. But in all honestly, most great games have the same ‘choppy animation from lag’ thing too. Your progress looks awesome keep going =D

By: RungAaz

RungAaz — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:28:20 +0000

Oh yes, a Demo or a Beta version would be awesome!
But do not rush, just take the time you need, we can wait for the best game 😉

By: darDar

darDar — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:01:11 +0000

nice 😉 really

By: nint22

nint22 — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 08:18:25 +0000

Hey MM, congrats! Glad to see all of this amazing work, especially with something as complex as networking code.

Keep rocking the world, get us a demo soon!

By: MM

MM — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 07:51:15 +0000

LadyLoe: yes that’s why soldat netcode is hard cause it’s very fast. High lag is not a problem in itself, lag spikes and varyiness is the problem. If it varies from 300-400 it will be very hard to predict were the player is.

2nd question: I can make it look like 0ms. Look at the server screen, if I didn’t tell you what the lag is and you wouldn’t see the client screen you would not know where the player really is.

By: LadyLoe

LadyLoe — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:11:41 +0000

It would be impossible to hit that soldier. I know a 400ms ping is high.

But isn’t the only reason soldat’s hit detection is so bad because a soldier can move about once his own height and 4 times his width in 150 ms?

Another question: Are you able to make a 400ms lag look like a 300ms lag with a good netcode or are you able to decrease the lag to 300ms with a good netcode. How could you possibly decrease the effects of lag? Movement prediction? Wouldn’t that make a nice ‘worm-evasion’ bug?

By: Clawbug

Clawbug — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:38:18 +0000

Death to nonbelievers indeed.

By: mmankt

mmankt — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:34:07 +0000

always nice to see something shaping up like this.

By: m!nus

m!nus — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:58:40 +0000

Very well done. I’d love to see how well it works with hit detection. I hope it doesn’t end up like in Soldat.