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and Day is right. Latency affekts how often the game sends packets. Naturally, if the packets are sent less frequently, your command have to wait a while to be issued.
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ToKoreaWithLove
Norway10161 Posts
and Day is right. Latency affekts how often the game sends packets. Naturally, if the packets are sent less frequently, your command have to wait a while to be issued. | ||
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Ack1027
United States7873 Posts
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booooo
Singapore372 Posts
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amat
United States1788 Posts
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Muhweli
Finland5328 Posts
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nvnplatypus
Netherlands1300 Posts
On June 25 2004 00:14 Day[9] wrote: put in very simple terms low latency sends out very very small packets of information very frequently. hence it will be a tad laggier because the server will be looking for the information almost instantly, and if it doesnt come, it will pause and wait for the info to come extra high latency is similar to the shock memory on a CD player. It operates a few seconds behind so that, if any information lags behind slightly, it has about a second or two to catch up. This poses a problem because essentially, no matter what, your micro, macro, and etcetera will always be a second or so behind in any game. low latency is nice because the server will wait for all your commands, at the cost of the lag box coming. That is the right answer mostly. Except the difference in reponse times isn't quite as drastic as a whole or several seconds. It's a few hundred milliseconds difference, which is still quite a lot. | ||
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ToKoreaWithLove
Norway10161 Posts
On June 25 2004 01:25 booooo wrote: never cease to irritate me when someone changes latency to very high right at the start of a lag free game, proclaims you are a newbie when you change back to very low, and proceeds to engage in a F10-O-N-L/V keypress war with you, swears at you, get thrashed very badly, then accuse you of map hacking. I usually leave when people do this. That kind of newbies ain't really worth the time. | ||
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Mora
Canada5235 Posts
infact, i would rather play in a lag filled game with low latency than a lagless extra high latency. i hate ehl. | ||
Twisted
Netherlands13554 Posts
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Mora
Canada5235 Posts
On June 25 2004 02:36 iD.Twisted wrote: If people put it on ehl, and I put it on low, and they put it on extra high again, I leave the game. amen | ||
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Dave[9]
United States2365 Posts
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KiD[ReD]
Canada2103 Posts
On June 25 2004 01:01 Abyss_Bahamut wrote: Sometimes I worry about the community when someone with such high post counts doesn't know something I learned the first month I played multiplayer. Yeah.. well.. me suck. | ||
Klogon
MURICA15980 Posts
On June 25 2004 03:02 Dave307 wrote: blizzard once sent me an e-mail explaineing what lag and latency is and everything, go ask them, they know. -_-; Or you can read this thread. -_- | ||
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STIMEY d okgm fish
Canada6140 Posts
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AnOther
565 Posts
high is bad | ||
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amat
United States1788 Posts
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Pafnucy
Poland1124 Posts
after first minute of the game: <random Korean sets latency to EXTRA HIGH>! -I set it to low again, explain there is no lag, make barrack earlier, scout diagonally, prepare for a rush -rush comes, I defend Korean: "map map! ;;; ????????" and leaves -People who set it to extra high when there is no lag often intend to have more effective rush/pressure/cheese -diagonal scouting = "map" ;D | ||
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Drazzzt
Germany999 Posts
On June 24 2004 23:16 KiD[ReD] wrote: That's strange.. I never noticed a difference between them.. maybe I'll try it sometime.. BTW.. I made that conversation up obviously guys.. heh.. I don't know what race you are playing. But as protoss, a zealot rush with extra high latency is a rather stupid thing to do. If you try to run the most damaged zealot away, it will most of the time just die, because it takes so $%&$&% long for the move-command to take effect. It's like using drums instead of radio communication. I usually leave the game, if it is lag-free and my opponent refuses to play with low latency. Drazzzt aka ShortNotice | ||
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Drazzzt
Germany999 Posts
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Liquid`RaSZi
Netherlands2766 Posts
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