remus, Maquina keeps killing me from around corners...
Uggg.. This happens to me all the damn time from players. I will try to explain here what's going on to the best of my knowledge.
If I screw the pooch technically, Remus can, I'm sure, step in and correct me.
Some players have horrible Internet connection to the game. It's a fact of life. You don't have to like it. Lord knows I don't. But if you want to play this game, then you just have to put up with it.
What happens sometimes is that you and another player aren't on the same page.
The constant is the arena - the map. Each player inhabits his or her own universe, however, and their movements and behaviors are translated to you in live time (your time; not necessarily theirs).
If this player has severe enough connection issues to where thery're sending/receiving packets at wrong intervals, not communicating with the server, the result is going to be: delayed, bad-looking, fire bursts, no damage, walking in walls, etc, etc...
So, when you were really shot, you were in this player's purview per his or her screen. Maquina sees you different than you see Maquina. So, while you might be around the corner by now, Maquina pulled the trigger a long time ago and you're just now receiving the packets (because you have to receive the packets if you're able, especially with the new updates) that he or she sent you.
It sucks that there are conflicting realities in the game. But there obviously is no fix if Remus has no fix. He's the expert here, and a lot has been done.
Trust me: you should have seen how bad it was for good connection players only a few months ago!
It's the exact same thing happening for both players, really. But they happen different per your perception.
I would go off on a rant and curse about them, but I promised Kiren I would try to be nicer to these bad pingers.
A lot of them can be found on this forum and in the top list of most frags.
It's evolution, baby.
Nothing to do now but play with it. It's too late to segregate or to change it.
Get dialup connection and you'll blend right in. The stuff doesn't seem to bother players if they too have dumb behaviors. They just wonder why it bothers the rest of us.
