Sure, it's theoretically possible, but so what? It would be a bit of a pain in the butt to create, when you could just use one of the many generic UE hacks that already exist and get results almost as good.
Antilag: a network hit detection mutator (now white-listed)
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It's probably a net performance gain, rather than a loss. You're doing more work for your own bullets, but not a lot more because of some efficiency gains I was able to make. The real difference comes in the bullets of other players. The stock game sends you only the initial impact of other bullets and then your client computes its penetration on your side for the secondary impact graphics. My approach sends you all the impacts individually, so there's no computation required to place them, just more bandwidth use.
To be fair, it's not a big deal either way. Shot computation is, from the POV of any single player, a fairly intermittent affair and not one that will push a system very hard. It's only really significant for the server, which has to handle everything for everybody all the time.
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With advanced ballistics and tracers, will you see the ricochets of other players on your screen?
You'll see tracers ricochet, but not necessarily the same ricochet angles/etc that anybody else will see. RO2 tracers are just fluff graphical fx that have no actual gameplay effect, so I didn't deem it worth the extra overhead to make them synchronized across clients. The game also doesn't synch up the firing angle of other players' weapons all that accurately, so you won't see the tracers coming out from exactly the right position or at exactly the right angle, so you might sometimes see MG tracers appear to be firing directly into a hill or windowsill when the bullets are really clearing it.
For the actual bullet ricochets, however, you'll see the surface impacts exactly as the bounce dictated. It's done the same way as wall penetration.
For the actual bullet ricochets, however, you'll see the surface impacts exactly as the bounce dictated. It's done the same way as wall penetration.
Ok, that makes sense. I was afraid that other players won't see the tracers ricochet when I'm using the machine gun.
Thank you it's now working, the client must download the mutator and not have it on his folder.
No populated servers ever running Antilag.I refuse to play without it.
Aye, same here :*(
The Aussies all run it, but then the servers aren't often full. It would be great to play with the Americans again, in full servers.
Happened to me once today. I am still impressed, as I accidentally forgot to turn off BitTorrent and was playing with 300+ ping, and didn't really notice.
Did you try it on our 10-78 server? The advanced ballistics are turned off on our servers. Give that a try.
http://www.gametracker.com/search/ro2/?query=anti&=GO
Other way around. No more walls can be penetrated than could before, only fewer. I fixed the bug where walls could be penetrated one way but not the other.
Yeah, I noticed this a couple of times... lead to rounds with 1 or 2 kills (come now! I am not that bad a player!!
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Sometimes a mutator just unloads if the servers configuration has some problem. That might be the case.
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