Prediction
Prediction
The last days, I have been playing with prediction enabled (Game->Network Game->Network Setup). It worked better than expected. Sure, the enemy cycles jump around a lot, but that only makes the information that they turned arrive faster at your brain. Also, it get MUCH easier to judge who will die in an upcoming collision, you or the other guy.
Small bug fixed in CVS: Unfortunately, the laggometer in the betas takes too long to grow to the correct size.
What are your experiences? What is better: Prediction (=> more accurate enemy positions) or no prediction (=> smoother enemy movement)?
Small bug fixed in CVS: Unfortunately, the laggometer in the betas takes too long to grow to the correct size.
What are your experiences? What is better: Prediction (=> more accurate enemy positions) or no prediction (=> smoother enemy movement)?
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I don't know if I have prediction on or off. Heh. I'll go find out, I remember not seeing a difference, though.
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I had it off, so I turned it on. Not sure how much I'm noticing is different or just the players that were there, I'll play like that for a little while and get back to you. Also, I noticed the lag-o-meters being smaller.
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I had it off, so I turned it on. Not sure how much I'm noticing is different or just the players that were there, I'll play like that for a little while and get back to you. Also, I noticed the lag-o-meters being smaller.
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Prediction
It helps tremendously on fortress servers especially because I have a bad ping on those servers (pretty much always over 200). It helps me kill people with much lower pings as before I thought I was getting "lag-killed" by them. Now I kinda know where I "actually" am and can see where my opponents are without lag taking much of an affect. It is annoying watching people once I'm dead (if I ever die...lol) because they are really jumpy, but it's worth it. But if you see that I'm in the game with you, please turn it off so I can kill you. Thanks. O and by the way, I was wondering what the console command is to turn it on and off. Thanks.
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I've always played without it, but then I'm one of those who adjusts to game environments that others might deem unplayable (I've even been accused for cheating for doing well in such a situation). But I do acknowledge the disadvantages of lag; in fact that's the way to deal with it, as far as possible.
PREDICT_OBJECTS is the prediction setting.
PREDICT_OBJECTS is the prediction setting.
Re: Prediction
both are goodz-man wrote: What is better: Prediction (=> more accurate enemy positions) or no prediction (=> smoother enemy movement)?
while playing fortress i'm changing prediction many times in one round for differnet goals, it depends from what am i doing on the grid
and therefore i can't wait when the new .3 version will be out (instant console commands )