It is the lock-step model but with state rewind, so that you get near zero apparent latency from your own actions (at the cost of animations from other player actions starting a few frames in). You occasionally see things like a successful hit from you on an opponent be rewound and applied to a block from him/her instead.
For co-op games where aren't you aren't closely interacting (like in riding along in a vehicle) it can be a near conflict free and zero latency experience.
You can use various levels of it, accepting a reducing a 100ms ping into a 50ms delay will get less conflicts than reducing it all the way to 0.
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It is the lock-step model but with state rewind, so that you get near zero apparent latency from your own actions (at the cost of animations from other player actions starting a few frames in). You occasionally see things like a successful hit from you on an opponent be rewound and applied to a block from him/her instead.
For co-op games where aren't you aren't closely interacting (like in riding along in a vehicle) it can be a near conflict free and zero latency experience.
You can use various levels of it, accepting a reducing a 100ms ping into a 50ms delay will get less conflicts than reducing it all the way to 0.