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Awesome insight. While playing FPS', I wondered why corners were a point of contention for me, both in dying or killing, and now I have additional insight. I can sit at a corner and die from an oncoming enemy, or I can take the corner and take the enemy. I assumed it was all due to my own biological perceptual system, and now I see the synchronization would be giving each player an advantage depending upon who's over…
A related article on refining their netcode to minimise the usefulness of wallhacks: https://technology.riotgames.com/news/demolishing-wallhacks-... Not many first person games have that "fog of war", it turns out to be quite hard to implement well.
My fun anecdote... Some of Valorant's game servers are hosted in a data center very close to my house. When I played, my ping was in the single digit milliseconds. Some people accused me of being a Riot employee. Of course, that low ping didn't prevent me from being utter trash. My K/D ratio was usually around 0.3. Come to think of it, seeing the network buffering they perform, I wonder if having such low ping actual…
Those timestamps are compared to a window against the server's and other players'.
A related article on refining their netcode to minimise the usefulness of wallhacks: https://technology.riotgames.com/news/demolishing-wallhacks-... Not many first person games have that "fog of war", it turns out to be quite hard to implement well.
I'm not sure if the fog of war anti-hack applies to League of Legends: Wild Rift (mobile version of LoL) since there are map hacks where you can see enemy positions going around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGKZCQoqEOk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V600M8NqpzM
Any discussion of the game’s requirement to install kernel-level anticheat hooks that inspect the memory of every process running on the system?
But any process your user runs can read memory of other processes of the same user, Windows provides an API for it. So its not just kernel stuff that is scary.
A related article on refining their netcode to minimise the usefulness of wallhacks: https://technology.riotgames.com/news/demolishing-wallhacks-... Not many first person games have that "fog of war", it turns out to be quite hard to implement well.
A related article on refining their netcode to minimise the usefulness of wallhacks: https://technology.riotgames.com/news/demolishing-wallhacks-... Not many first person games have that "fog of war", it turns out to be quite hard to implement well.
IIRC Counter-Strike had it back in ~2002.
https://old.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/37ebes/maj...
> Added trace-based visibility checks to prevent networking invisible enemy players.
If you're remembering playing with the r_drawothermodels console command to get a faux-wallhack effect, that was still subject to the engines clientside occlusion culling so it didn't show everything the client (and real cheats) were actually aware of.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Didn't most first person games have this automatically because of using the Quake engine due to their PVS system? It was used to reduce drawing overhead but also beneficial in not sending more data than needed and preserve bandwidth serversided.
AFAIK no they didn't, Valves engines are from the Quake lineage and still use PVS but they only added serverside fog-of-war to Counter Strike relatively recently in ~2015. As the Valorant article goes into, it's a harder problem than it appears because you need to allow the client some wiggle room to know an enemy in coming around a corner before the player sees them so that lag compensation and shadows work correctl…
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Games are really magic, especially on bespoke engines, not slapping Unreal on some assets but making something like God of War 2 or FFXII run on PS2. Or yes online games.
(yes i know valo in unreal but very custom)
A related article on refining their netcode to minimise the usefulness of wallhacks: https://technology.riotgames.com/news/demolishing-wallhacks-... Not many first person games have that "fog of war", it turns out to be quite hard to implement well.
Didn't most first person games have this automatically because of using the Quake engine due to their PVS system? It was used to reduce drawing overhead but also beneficial in not sending more data than needed and preserve bandwidth serversided.