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Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by troad on Thursday May 01, 2025 @08:28AM (#43856804)
Good faith question: why is the server not the source of truth? With local interpolation for things like character movement, reconciled in heartbeat updates?
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Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by dijit on Thursday May 01, 2025 @08:34AM (#43856855)
FD: Still on a phone on vacation. :)

The reason is the round trip time mainly.

Server corrections will feel like “floaty” or “banding” behaviour, we used to do that and people get upset because it “feels” wrong.

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Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by looperhacks on Thursday May 01, 2025 @02:34PM (#43861622)
Not all cheating sends "bad data" to the server. Cheats like wallhacks or aimbots are purely clientside and can't be detected on the server
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