Ping Difference

[Arma]

So there has been a player on the server who kills everyone, never dies, seems to pull of amazing almost impossible level shots while you are behind doors, walls, ect 80% of all his kills are headshots roughly and so we assumed cheater.

Well according to the admin it's not cheats he's got a lot of hours in the game however they said as a reason for some of his insane shots and never dying it might be due to the fact he's playing from Ukraine and the ping difference.

So my question is. If ping is allowing him to see and shoot us when on our screens we are behind cover and make almost every shot we get on him either projectile invalids or projectile LOS error isn't that basically like cheating? Since we can't kill him because of how the ping seems to favour him so much that he sees us before we see him and he can shoot us while on our screens we are behind cover and every time we shoot him we are getting errors then... Please explain to me how we are supposed to win. In the 1 hour it took him and his group to raid us my friends managed to kill his team mates multiple times but when it came to him they didn't manage to kill him once they hit him plenty of times but he just never went down. Now I'm awful at PvP in this game I deal with the base building and farming but one of my team mates is a damn good shot in a 1 vs 1 he comes out on top I would say 75% of the time but the fact he never EVER once knocked this dude during the entire one hour raid is insane. Even more so this guy's team mates were very easy to kill and in fact died 5-6 times during the raid. In the end they hid while their unkillable god level aim ping master stood on the roof without any cover killing my team over and over again while seemingly just eating bullets like candy.

[DICKENS CIDER]

There are servers like werewolf gaming that will protect cheaters if they bought vip .

[Security Cam #7]

Unless his ping is way lower than your own, these things shouldn't happen.

Having a lower ping than the opponent gives an advantage in rust, not the other way around. Some games have it differently, like minecraft or team fortress 2 for example where if your ping is high you teleport on screens of others making it harder to hit you. This does not happen in rust. If your ping is high enough you will actually be the one being teleported back to where you stood while for other players it will seem like you are just standing still and not moving.

If your ping is high you'll be the one always getting invalid projectiles when shooting at someone because you are receiving and sending data too late. This also means that on your screen it might seem like he keeps prefiring corners, but on his screen he actually walks around the corner and then starts shooting. I have it happen often on US servers where my ping is 130. Makes it difficult to detect ESP cheaters.

But yea, once again, this will happen ONLY if your ping is higher than the enemy's. Not the other way around.

Ping difference in itself isn't a cheat and it's stupid to say that it is. I cannot control whether or not my ISP will decide that it's time to throttle my internet and give me 100 ping on EU servers vs the normal 30 I get. And yes, this throttling stuff happens and no, it's not against the law.

The person you were fighting either has a much lower ping or really has some cheats. Though I do not know of any cheats that would forcefully generate projectile invalids.

I'm bad at explaining stuff so in case you don't understand from the gibberish I wrote, here's a video that covers the exact same thing I was talking about, just explained more thoroughly and easily:
https://youtu.be/Mbx1z62uecw

[DySFunction]

sounds like staff protecting a cheater from the outside looking in. 2cents.