Antilag: a network hit detection mutator (now white-listed)
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Try deleting ROEngine.ini. Someone said that it stopped crashing for him.
You mean server or client crashes?
I'm becoming more and more convinced that everyone will crash with it, eventually, it's just measured in hours for many. The game has a memory clean-up bug, and I go through, over a long enough time, a fairly decent amount of memory, as each bullet you fire (or tracer you see) keeps track of its path and apparently fails to properly clean itself up when it disappears from the game world. Those people with higher graphics settings or lower amounts of RAM run into it faster than others, as they have less open memory to work with.
Appleshampoo's win7 with 4gb of RAM is an excellent example there. He would probably have to turn graphic settings down quite far to get much in the way of free memory for the game to fill with gobbledygook. That's why I think people are having success with deleting ROEngine.ini - by doing so, you revert your graphics settings back to the defaults (which, for most people, is probably turning them down)
If I'd known about this when I'd started, I'd have designed the system in a way that gets around it, but doing it now would require throwing almost everything out and starting from scratch...and really, who expects something as staple as an array to not work properly
We're all waiting on TWI to work it out, at this point.
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Whatever happens, thanks very much for all your effort. The changes brought about by running your mutator are akin to a blindman suddenly being able to see :IS2:
Hopefully this will get sorted out, sooner rather than later, and we can benefit from the other improvements/changes to ballistics in the mutator.
Hopefully this will get sorted out, sooner rather than later, and we can benefit from the other improvements/changes to ballistics in the mutator.
I was just playing on a UK server running this with AB on, and it was like a whole new game. Hitting what I want feels so nice, although I still have to stop myself from leading too much
I did some spraying with the machine gun and seeing the impacts scatteri all over the place was just amazing! One of the ricochets also caught a friendly though, so machine gins are certainly even more deadly with this
Amazing amazing stuff, thanks for your hard work on it!
I did some spraying with the machine gun and seeing the impacts scatteri all over the place was just amazing! One of the ricochets also caught a friendly though, so machine gins are certainly even more deadly with this
Amazing amazing stuff, thanks for your hard work on it!
Played it out. I didn't really see any difference when dying (but I still have to test some maps for this, like Pavlov's or Comissar's House on the Soviet side) and it looks like it's easier for me to hit target on the move. I still need to be used to it, but so far it works and feels good.
Good job.
Good job.
Sry... posted this in other discussion thread about "antilag"
Isnt "clientside hit detection" the reason I own a PC.
I thought this was reason I didnt play and "AAA" console port for years?
Why would any PC gamer want this?
Its VERY annoying dying 2 seconds behind cover.... VERY
Can someone pls explain?
Isnt "clientside hit detection" the reason I own a PC.
I thought this was reason I didnt play and "AAA" console port for years?
Why would any PC gamer want this?
Its VERY annoying dying 2 seconds behind cover.... VERY
Can someone pls explain?
This doesn't happen in RO, due to a slower movement speed, bullet penetration, slow death. You shoot much more often then you die, so the mutator brings more than it takes away. You should try it at least once.
I don 't see what the big deal about dying behind cover. It's not like the person who shot you got an unfair advantage. You were shot on your way to cover but it took 2 seconds to register so you should be dead anyway. And I'd rather have dying behind cover than missing shots because of lag when it should've killed your target. And I haven't even died behind cover yet. The compensation is very good. You should give it a try before complaining about it.
The console port problem of dying behind cover is only noticeable in rare occaisons that happen a lot more in fast paced games, but also because the netcode in battlefield is some of the worst I have EVER seen. To give you a picture of it, all physics is calculated on the server....
Quick & dirty:
200m / 800m/s (rifle muzzle speed) = 0.25s (time of flight)
0.25s * 5m/s (run speed) = 1.25m (lead required)
So, yeah, pretty much.
Well i was against this in principle due to the horrible way its been implimented in other games ive tried... BUT it works really well here. Havnt experience an obvious "death behind cover" incident yet, i think the bleed to death disguises some of it and the slower gameplay accounts for the rest. I'm still learning to avoid leading my target by a few meters tho One of the added benifits is that it makes mgs a lot more deadly > Will be much nicer when it doesnt cause crashes every hour tho. yes Win7 64bit & decent graphics on.
One of the added benifits is that it makes mgs a lot more deadly > Will be much nicer when it doesnt cause crashes every hour tho. yes Win7 64bit & decent graphics on.
+1
I'm glad I'm not the only one
PC gamers in 2012 asking for clientside hit detection. Goodbye PC gaming, was nice knowing you. There will be a campaign for listen servers next.
I don't know what exactly is wrong with client-side hit detection if it works without a problem. The "dying behind cover" thing is something I have yet to experience using the mutator and it seems to be the only "problem" that the mutator could (but doesn't) have. The only chance of "dying 2 seconds cover" is being killed by a guy with a ping of 2000ms. Being killed behind cover by someone with a ping of anything less than 500ms is barely noticeable, so only on very exceptional cases you could die behind cover.+1
I'm glad I'm not the only one
PC gamers in 2012 asking for clientside hit detection. Goodbye PC gaming, was nice knowing you. There will be a campaign for listen servers next.
I still don't understand how can someone prefer to play with a ping that can easily range from 50-150ms, leading to unpredictible behaviour of bullet speed and hit detection and depending a lot on luck to hit a moving target. Test the mutator and see for yourself.
...and really, who expects something as staple as an array to not work properly
Being a programmer myself...I know what you mean. I'd expect all the standard data structures to work properly.
Having problems on that level is extremely frustrating.