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2010-05-15, 15:00
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qqshka wrote:
blAze wrote:
How does your own location affect to hitting with antilag btw? What exactly is sent to server, the point that your lg would have hit, or your position and angle u shot at?

Nothing additional sent to the server right now, server may guess all it need on his own, well, it should be so but unfortunatelly there is things which make this state fail. So let me explain AL yet more time and why own location have issues.

Basically, when AL is ON server just keep in mind history(origins) of where players was, so server receive packet from the player and place players at origins where they should be from the client point of view (own position not changed!!!) but that all you know alredy. So what with own location. Let use some weird example so you can get it, say you have ping 300ms (!), packet travel 150ms from server to client and 150ms back to the server. You aim at some point but while you do so you experience rocket hit (for example) and you will gain some knock back which result in you location change but because of high ping you will know about it in 150 ms late and whole 150ms you will naively aim even your own position completely different which ofc result in miss(or at least may result). Well, we all know how RJ looks at high ping, you shoot rocket but you does not see knock back and only after some delay you will notice it, that means what for ping/2 your client show you wrong own location. But luckily, we does not play on such pings so influence of this effect is yet again minimal.

2everyone:

All this flame about how AL drastically changing game is EXREMELY exaggerated if we imply sane pings, simply imagine 50ms fraction time and speeds, which is not so common anyway, more like 39ms and 26ms, right?

Stop to fight windmills, k?

Well, aim getting messed up because of rocket hit is still more an exception to the rule. More often than not your location will NOT be changed by knockback effect. I was mainly interested how your own location affects in hitting the target with hitscan weapons.
2010-05-18, 07:58
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Here's another interesting summary of wtf we are talking about here: http://www.fabiensanglard.net/quakeSource/quakeSourcePrediction.php
2010-05-18, 11:04
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bigfoot wrote:
qqshka wrote:
[SNIP - Qqshka completely unable to understand time]

Slightly ironical, but you can get the point.

Qqshka, we already know that you don't understand the concept of time. See here for a thorough explanation. You've tried for how long now? Half a year? And you still don't get it. It's OK, though. I'm sure there are other things you are good at.

OK. Bigfoot, I described the situation. Could you tell how extremely lagged player (bigfoot) could see nonlagged (B1aze) before nonlagged?

Seems like YOU don't understand the concept of time.
The situation is very simple:
Non-lagged player sees position of lagged player which he had 10 seconds ago. Non-lagged player could use any weapons he has.
Lagged player sees position of non-lagged player which he had 10 seconds ago. Lagged player could use any instant-weapons he has. (sg, ssg, lg)
For me it is quite obvious who has upper hand in this situation.
With best wishes, B1aze.
2010-05-18, 15:09
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I would really like to see a set of screenshots or a side-by-side splitscreen view of the situations discussed here.

What I'm talking about is recording the aforementioned situation with one player at 13ms and other at say 300-500ms, what ever is enough to bring out the effects (and unintended side effects) _clearly_. I think this kind of demonstration would be very useful to people who don't fully understand what principle issues bigfoot and qqshka are discussing and in general, create more awareness of what antilag is actually doing. The demonstration could also show how small the effects are when playing with normal ping differences for comparison.

I can even volunteer to help with recording such demos (as a player), but I don't feel that I have a good enough grasp on AL to actually setup the situations etc.

Medar ^?

I truly feel that Bigfoot in all his splendid candor is on to something, but as a scene I think we need more information and easily understandable presentations to draw conclusions about what the inherent problems actually mean in-game. In this way we could have a much more constructive discussion and point out our wishes concerning fine-tuning etc.
2010-05-18, 16:25
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You can record a demo when hpw will have some advantages and another demos when lpb have upper hand.
What I trying to say that OVERALL even with high ping there are no clear advantage for HPW.
It will be even for instant weapons and LPB will have big advantage for rl, gl and sng.
With best wishes, B1aze.
2010-05-18, 16:32
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B1aze wrote:
bigfoot wrote:
qqshka wrote:
[SNIP - Qqshka completely unable to understand time]

Slightly ironical, but you can get the point.

Qqshka, we already know that you don't understand the concept of time. See here for a thorough explanation. You've tried for how long now? Half a year? And you still don't get it. It's OK, though. I'm sure there are other things you are good at.

OK. Bigfoot, I described the situation. [SNIP]

Unfortunately you still didn't learn to follow the discussion, and you didn't take your time to read the posts you are replying to either :/

Here's a list of the more important posts, in chronological order, which you might find interesting:

http://www.quakeworld.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=55227#p55227
http://www.quakeworld.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=55239#p55239
http://www.quakeworld.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=55269#p55269
http://www.quakeworld.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=55270#p55270
http://www.quakeworld.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=55274#p55274
http://www.quakeworld.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=55276#p55276
http://www.quakeworld.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=55278#p55278
http://www.quakeworld.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=55279#p55279
http://www.quakeworld.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=55280#p55280
http://www.quakeworld.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=55281#p55281
http://www.quakeworld.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=55284#p55284
http://www.quakeworld.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=55286#p55286
http://www.quakeworld.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=55320#p55320
http://www.quakeworld.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=55324#p55324
http://www.quakeworld.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=55336#p55336
http://www.quakeworld.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=55351#p55351
http://www.quakeworld.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=55366#p55366

Although it may be easier to just read pages 6 and 7. Happy reading!
2010-05-18, 16:33
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niomic wrote:
I would really like to see a set of screenshots or a side-by-side splitscreen view of the situations discussed here.

Make sure you don't miss prolag.qwd. It's not a side-by-side comparison, but it clearly does show one of the problems.
2010-05-18, 20:35
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I made some video clips to visualize different levels of lag.
2010-05-19, 06:56
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Would be nice with a description and explanation...
ready!
2010-05-19, 11:27
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What is there to explain? The red image is Xms behind the green one.

I uploaded the Avisynth script used to create the clips.
2010-05-19, 14:09
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bigfoot wrote:
qqshka wrote:
[SNIP - Qqshka completely unable to understand time]

Slightly ironical, but you can get the point.

Qqshka, we already know that you don't understand the concept of time. See here for a thorough explanation. You've tried for how long now? Half a year? And you still don't get it. It's OK, though. I'm sure there are other things you are good at.

Sorry, but its you who failed to understand time.
<3
2010-05-19, 14:21
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qqshka wrote:
bigfoot wrote:
qqshka wrote:
[SNIP - Qqshka completely unable to understand time]

Slightly ironical, but you can get the point.

Qqshka, we already know that you don't understand the concept of time. See here for a thorough explanation. You've tried for how long now? Half a year? And you still don't get it. It's OK, though. I'm sure there are other things you are good at.

Sorry, but its you who failed to understand time.

Nuh-uh.
2010-05-19, 14:44
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Ah, a replay of Argument Clinic is starting \o/
2010-05-19, 15:30
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Ok, this thread was going very out of proportions, out of what the forum rules and standards of civilized debate allow, so a moderator action was taken by me.

There are many other posts in this thread already which also are very problematic, but at least contain something that has some point relevant to the topic, that's why I left them untouched even if many pointed out they contain insults or provocations. From this point on I am not going to use so much tolerance.

Make sure further posts in this thread are to the point. As I've already said elsewhere: feel free to attack other persons' arguments with your arguments. Attacking other persons themselves is forbidden on this forum. If you are unable to make your point without insulting, provoking or being arrogant, do not post to this forum.
2010-05-19, 15:37
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zzzz if you're a big boy you can take it ;p
2010-05-23, 08:26
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lets just use bigger player models with normal bbox and call it 100ms supported..
2010-05-28, 03:41
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Quakeworld finally has antilag? Definitely have to test this out.

All I've seen from reading this drama is that people can now hit what they aim at and blAze accuses them of cheating because well... hitting where you aim... preposterous!
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2010-05-28, 19:29
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meez wrote:
Quakeworld finally has antilag? Definitely have to test this out.

All I've seen from reading this drama is that people can now hit what they aim at and blAze accuses them of cheating because well... hitting where you aim... preposterous!

I think you have to read again, cause it seems you miss the point.
2010-05-28, 20:03
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meez wrote:
blAze accuses them of cheating because well... hitting where you aim... preposterous!

Really? Where?
2010-06-02, 16:17
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fog wrote:
I think you have to read again, cause it seems you miss the point.

I'd much rather play a game that has antilag than one without. Games without it generally feel awful on anything above LAN pings afterwards.

blAze wrote:
meez wrote:
blAze accuses them of cheating because well... hitting where you aim... preposterous!

Really? Where?

blAze wrote:
Clearly there is something wrong with the feature if it has to be slipped in secretly like this. I was almost certain some players were using aimbot in povdmm4s, but this would explain it.
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2010-06-02, 16:34
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obviously the cheat was not that they hit where they aim. But because they utilized a feature, they knew the opponent didnt knew about.



After some playtesting i noticed i did get better results with 50ms and antilag compared to 13ms. Because opponent would start dodging later when geting hit, most of the time.

Only 3 povs tho.
2010-06-02, 20:03
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Lol, how is that accusing anyone of anything. On the contrary. I just mentioned that I had noticed hpws hitting too well for their ping under normal qw physics. Only one I ever accused of anything was the person who secretly turned antilag on, and it wasn't about cheating but being lame. Learn to understand what you read.
2010-06-04, 02:04
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Willgurht wrote:
After some playtesting i noticed i did get better results with 50ms and antilag compared to 13ms.

Intentional.
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2010-06-25, 13:25
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On second thought and giving the antilag some time and some games as well, I must say that I'm converting my opinion.
My game has benefited from it: now I'm able to compete pretty well at WG whereas it was pretty burdensome without it (ping +50).

All the problems with finding a server for an official game will be diminished now for antilag makes it preety even for almost everyone.
All in all, I'm a convert now and give my thumbs uo for the concept
2010-06-26, 20:05
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Can someone plz enlighten me what the drawbacks are? I don't really understand.

/jOn
2010-07-12, 13:35
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I see (as much as I understand it) only one drawback which is just the other side of its advantage:
cl_fakeshaft 0 (lagged shaft) is no more a real shaft.

With high and medium pings cl_fakeshaft 1 and cl_fakeshaft 2 are more close to reality.

cl_fakeshaft 2 is available in ezquake nightly bulds and it tries to imitate 13ms lagged shaft witch is roghly equal to antilagged shaft.
2010-07-12, 17:52
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se-sss wrote:
I see (as much as I understand it) only one drawback which is just the other side of its advantage:
cl_fakeshaft 0 (lagged shaft) is no more a real shaft.

With high and medium pings cl_fakeshaft 1 and cl_fakeshaft 2 are more close to reality.

cl_fakeshaft 2 is available in ezquake nightly bulds and it tries to imitate 13ms lagged shaft witch is roghly equal to antilagged shaft.

So its recomened to use cl_fakeshaft 1 with ping 13-25? Right now im using 0,8 dont know why, but it feels ok

/jOn
2010-07-13, 14:22
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:-) With low ping everithing is OK. At least difference is not too big.

Probably number 0,8 makes sense because real shaft now is somewhere between cl_fakeshaft 0 and 1 and it is quite close to 1
2010-07-15, 02:52
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Loooong thread, have to admit I didn't read all of the posts

Played some with this earlier tonight and I have to say it feels ..... weird, using lan-like shaft on wargamez weird in a good way though!

But I dont know if this is a good change. And not just because it favors more LG-based players over RL-based players . It completely breaks the game physics. I don't think anyone can deny that (otherwise, why not implement it for RL as well? but that would only show the flaw more I think?).

In the end it probably comes down to what we feel is worth breaking the underlying physics for To me personally, even if the flaw is only slightly noticable in actual games, it doesn't outweigh the advantages.

reppie
2010-07-20, 02:11
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We all know that qw players play because there are no compromises, (compared to other games). As I said when this was news, you can't get something for nothing, privileging erroneous viewpoints is a drastically perverse compromise to high ping. As we all know clientside prediction of self-movement is very nearly perfect except when perturbed by weapons (including your own), but your clientside's prediction of other players gets worse and more filtered/simplified as your ping increases, because all it has to work with is current velocity, orientation (viewing direction, which of the 4,294,967,296 different points you can be looking at from a given position), and last known movement commands, (and i learned thanks to sputnikutah's link it doesn't attempt to use velocity of changes in orientation in its prediction). The only time a latent client will represent other players' movement accurately is when he is moving in a straight line or not moving, otherwise it will be more or less distorted, this can be overcome by retrospective hit calculation (using server's memory of motion that really occured plus hits that would have occured) rather than using the clients pov, but it's still a drastic perversity, because it places the onus of mentally correcting (or accounting for) erroneous motion on the nonlatent player.
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