Hm... Excessive Shot Lag with Weapons?

[elix]

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[Ga-Reef]

What really stinks is when I try to load my rockets up, go about my business only to have them randomly fire off at the most inappropiate times when I'm facing a wall or something else nearby. I guess it's another connection/lag issue, because it happens often and it's not my fault.

[Nightmare85]

I think Epic could solve the problem by changing the netcode from "server authority" to "client authority".
Even with pings of <50 you will have a delay/lag with the current netcode.

I cannot understand why they don't want to use another technique!
Is it really that difficult?

Greets

[theeDEATHMASTER]

We'd just need enough people to support that.

[CaptainSnarf]

There is a mutator 'zeroping' that does that, but I think it's only for instagib.

http://clanbase.ggl.com/news.php?nid=278764

I'm actually against client authority, as I have a decent ping to the servers I play on

[PR0V0]

I vote no because i dont feel the lag at all... maybe because i played too many silly other game engines. i tell u... please BE HAPPY with this... else u can check out other shooters... u'll see this system is uber.

[Moloko]

Interesting post here http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33820957 about netcode various solutions and problems with them.

[Benfica]

Tick rate too low?

May be related with this (utengine.ini)

[IpDrv.TcpNetDriver]
MaxClientRate=15000
MaxInternetClientRate=10000
RelevantTimeout=5.0
SpawnPrioritySeconds=1.0
ServerTravelPause=4.0
NetServerMaxTickRate=30
LanServerMaxTickRate=35
IdleServerTickRate=30

Instead of playing offline, how about testing by playing on you own server? Change the ini, host a game and join.

[CaptainSnarf]

Here is another one:

http://unreal.epicgames.com/Network.htm

[The Demon Slick]

Client side makes it too easy for cheaters. Don't get off topic, not trying to kick a hornet's nest here, just saying, keep it server side, let the admins and thier software be the boss.

[UTPlayer529th]

Hi there. Frequent player of some of the mentioned DM and TDM servers. UMGLeauge sometimes etc. I have to say, if its just a few people in the server the server feels responsive; shots are less delayed. As soon as 4 or more players, I notice a difference.

Q9650 @ 4.2Ghz under custom H20
Maximus II Formula - sucks 480fsb is my max with 8.5 multi - UD3 pwns the 775lga crown
1280x1024 19" 2ms & 4870 all low settings
Vista U. 64 -
DMZ zone enabled and ports 7777 & 6500 are forwarded

I say there is still something wrong somewhere. I stopped buying Computer hardware because I don't believe its my machine anymore. I've bought another mobo (UD3R,) another Q9650, and more custom water cooling pieces driven by the aggravation that is simply lag. But what I don't get is how can a guy with a 140 ping pwn!?? And against good players... something is a miss here

[node357]

I compared campaign mode against online mode, and all the weapons fire instantly offline, but have varying amounts of lag online. I'm not a great player, and the expense of having to lead my shots makes me that much worse. I've gone through a lot of trouble to get UT3 working on the various systems I have it for, and I'm still not having much fun getting destroyed because my shots don't go where I aim.

[Lucius2]

i myself consider the flak and igib rifle extremely laggy. i cant hit **** with them. shock prime and sniper are fine though imo.

well since the game is a huge bug anyway, i stopped caring about such stuff, because it wont change anyway.

[Nammo]

Yep there is a noticeable lag with the weapons but I guess it is too late to change anything as most players have adapted to the lag

[Nightmare85]

It will never be changed... I'm 99,9% sure.
It's the netcode, no chance!
Shots are server-sided, not client-sided.
Unless all players have a super fast Internet connection and the servers are extreme high-end machines, this problem will always exist.
Maybe in some years^^

Cheers!