The Game-Ending, Keyboard-Breaking, World of Lag (and how to fix it)
▻https://hackernoon.com/the-game-ending-keyboard-breaking-world-of-lag-and-how-to-fix-it-3a5c524
If you’ve ever played an online multiplayer game, you’ve probably suffered from some sort of lag. When Ronaldo is kicking the referee in Fifa 18 (instead of the ball) or your character in Counter-Strike starts teleporting around into different walls, its the nasty result of high latency, the slow connection speed from the games servers to your #gaming system. And this isnt a trivial problem. Newsweek wrote about Fortnite’s game-breaking update that introduced lag effects while building and graphic rednering issues that made the game “almost unplayable”. There are 1000’s of videos on YouTube that show hilarious (and soul-crushing) moments of defeat, as gamers lose control over their characters and die mysteriously in the heat of an intense skirmish.Jitter, lag, and slow ping are all results (...)
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