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My fun anecdote... Some of Valorant's game servers are hosted in a data center very close to my house. When I played, my ping was in the single digit millisec
by Sohcahtoa82 2y ago
My fun anecdote...
Some of Valorant's game servers are hosted in a data center very close to my house. When I played, my ping was in the single digit milliseconds. Some people accused me of being a Riot employee.
Of course, that low ping didn't prevent me from being utter trash. My K/D ratio was usually around 0.3.
Come to think of it, seeing the network buffering they perform, I wonder if having such low ping actually gave me a disadvantage when peeking towards someone with a 30 ms ping?
- ncr100 2y agoHa! "Hax0r!1!@~" Did you feel it potentially made the game MORE fun for you, having that high ping? I presume yes?
- legohead 2y agoBack in the early days of the internet when it was mostly connecting to universities, there was a popular PK mud hosted at the university I went to. So I had a massive advantage in that game. Game hackers weren't really a thing so people just assumed I was amazing at the game.
- andrewmcwatters 2y agoMost likely not, because modern game engines take a timestamp of your command packets and do relativistic calculations on when you clicked versus another player, and how that affects hitscan and projectile-based weapons. Those timestamps are compared to a window against the server's and other players'.
- bob1029 2y ago> I wonder if having such low ping actually gave me a disadvantage when peeking towards someone with a 30 ms ping? Yes. Counterintuitively, the players with the worst connections often get away with the most ridiculous nonsense.