People are not playing now because of d3/eso, but everyone will be back soon.

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Peapodsp wrote:

game is boring

quit now

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Peapodsp wrote:

^have fun doing maps all day lel

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:(

I want to fucking cry.

GGG turns your 5ms latency into 5000ms with shit servers and implementation (reliance on prediction). Don't get fooled into thinking latency doesn't matter when it's simply being dictated by their methods.

If for instance the server updated the client at the same rate as the server processes, even if you have 5ms latency, the simulation would be slightly desynced. That would be your typical 'lag'.

Now the thing is, if you take a value on the server simulated at say 60fps and you only update that value on the client, say, at 0.1fps, you have effective state latency of up to 10000ms.

This is kinda what happens with PoE, imagine you only take a snapshot every 10 seconds, or when a certain error threshold is met, in between those snapshots, shit is made up, because it's non-deterministic, the 'prediction' can't account for external shit and you desync.

Rubberbanding/resync is the visual result of error correction, desync itself is the buildup or more correctly the magnitude of error, if the error tolerance is lower, the state would update more and you'd see more rubberbanding. PoE relies on having to NOT update state but fails.

In the simplest way possible (and I don't claim it to be representative, just the basic mechanism), pseudocode for the major factor in state synchronization:

If (error<allowance) //desyncing, accumulating error (and effective state latency)
return;
else //resync
update(client, state);

FYI, that allowance, in the case of getting stunned(!) is 2 meters.

This also doesn't cover the potential of the system doing more forcible rate limiting, which I suspect is happening too (/oos style limit).

Edit:
Yeah, I'm probably being a bit critical and going a tad far as usual, but fuck it, PoE desync isn't acceptable.

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SuperDeathLord wrote:

I've never even died due to it, maybe once or twice

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glh5 wrote:

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SuperDeathLord wrote:

I've never even died due to it, maybe once or twice

I've not eaten an apple today but maybe three apples though.

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Peapodsp wrote:

^have fun doing maps all day lel