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The noticeable effects of lag vary depending on the exact cause, but also on any and all techniques for lag compensation that the game may implement (described below). As all clients experience some amount of delay, implementing these methods to minimize the effect on players is important for smooth gameplay. Lag causes numerous problems for issues such as accurate rendering of the game state and hit detection. In many games, lag is often frowned upon because it disrupts normal gameplay. The severity of lag depends on the type of game and its inherent tolerance for lag. Some games with a slower pace can tolerate significant delays without any need to compensate at all, whereas others with a faster pace are considerably more sensitive and requires extensive use of compensation to be playable (most prevalent is probably the first-person shooter genre). Due to the various problems lag can cause, many players that have a lower speed Internet connection are often not permitted, or discouraged from playing with other players or servers that have a distant server host or have high latency to one another. Extreme cases of lag may result in extensive desynchronization of the game state.
[–]CoreyCCoreyFC {Reddit 360 NAE 2} 3 points4 points5 points 18 days ago
"I fire first, kill cam shows I never fired, I run safely to hide behind a wall, kill cam shows that I'm still 5 feet away and nowhere near safety.
All of these are problems that people who don't host have always had."
Etc Etc...
[–]CoreyCCoreyFC {Reddit 360 NAE 2}
"I fire first, kill cam shows I never fired, I run safely to hide behind a wall, kill cam shows that I'm still 5 feet away and nowhere near safety.
All of these are problems that people who don't host have always had."
Etc Etc...
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