This is becoming an urgent problem.
I encounter more and more players in PvP (hotjoin and team arena alike) that lag like nobody’s business. Some of them are Brazilians, and since they don’t speak a word in English, it is impossible to communicate with them. Others, however, do it on purpose with the use of a lag switch.
Either way, exceeding a certain latency for an extended period of time in PvP should not be tolerated. The client synchronization issues it causes are devastating, and that gives the cheating team a monstrous yet absolutely unfair advantage.
The two most noticeable issues are:
- Lagging players are nearly untouchable. All skills turn the character automatically in the target’s direction, which in this case, turns you in the wrong direction, or causes your character to spin around spastically. This not only causes skills to completely miss, but it can also waste important cooldowns. Melee skills are completely useless as they go right through the target and do nothing.
From experience, a single turret engineer can annihilate an entire team by simply lagging. With lag guaranteeing their survival, all they have to do is keep their non-moving turrets alive to defend a capture point.
A solution to this problem would be matchmaking players from the same continent together, and allow to report hackers more easily. It’s not like you can take a screenshot of someone lagging, and not everyone can record in-game footage.
- When a player is downed, their coordinates are not sent with the packet. This causes lagging players to appear in a completely different position than they actually are, and causes them to be impossible to finish off. When pressing “FINISH THEM!!”, nothing happens, and when searching further away from the body to look for their actual position, the option to finish them becomes no longer available.
From experience, the distance between the rendered body and the actual position can be very long (around 1200 units). A ranger with a pet healing them back to life would require at least two dedicated ranged damage dealers to kill (you can’t melee something you don’t see).
I suggest sending the player’s position to other clients when downed so that they can all synchronize properly and see the players where they actually are.
That’s all for now.
PS: I ask my teammates every time I experience this to make sure it isn’t just on my side. We all do see the same thing.
