Suggestion: 120 tick rate servers

[MoshPete]

Dear Psyonix,

now that you've got a massivly successful game on your hands and truck loads of cash, would you concider implementing 120 tick rate servers, at least for ranked games? That would decrease the sync problems and ghosting in Rocket League.

Thanks for the best game in the world, cheers!

[MoshPete]

are you sure? last time I checked it was 60, but I'll have to verify that

[MoshPete]

Hmm, not so sure about that, I'm relying on this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unzRzLKg7Mc

[MoshPete]

Also in your video he doesn't explain WHY the game servers should have a tick rate of 120, in mine he does support his claim of the game servers running on a tick rate of 60!

[lolschrauber]

cago forums leaking or something?

[MoshPete]

Also it doesn't "feel" like 120Hz and it's very much unconventional, especially for a non-FPS.

[MoshPete]

Originally posted by lolschrauber:

cago forums leaking or something?

No, just suggesting an improvement to the game....you escaped the academimimi?

[MoshPete]

Yeah, but if they had made any changes tick rate-wise, he would have re-reviewed the game and we probably would have heard of it in the last year!

[MoshPete]

The thing is that there is ghosting/desync on public servers and a 120 tick would improve the situation.

[MoshPete]

It sure would! But one would thing that they had the money for it. I'm not sure about the current state of the servers, but if there is much potential for further improvement, it probably would be cheaper to take advantage of those beforehand.

[MoshPete]

Originally posted by •_•:

Isn't it more likely to be the ping compensation? It's over-generous imho. Playing in a match with people who have ping over 150 is like wading through mud, particularly when dealing with fast incoming long-range balls. A 200+ ping should be an almost unplayable disadvantage, all things being equal, but instead those players seem to win disproportionately more.

I would rather Psyonix allow us to specify "my region only" matches, but they won't do it otherwise players from minor regions would struggle to find any matches at all.

Haven't though about that, you're probably right! There are certainly many trees to bark on when it comes to ghosting etc.

[MsCinder<3Rawr<3]

I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to answer both of your concerns. The game runs its physics rate at 120hz, even on the dedicated servers. They always have. However, in online games, the server sends updates at a rate of 60hz, aka a tickrate of 60. So both the server and the client runs physics at 120hz, but the server sends information to the client 60 times a second on average. Hence why there seems to be a contradiction between Rocket Science's and Battle(non)sense's videos. But actually they both support this.

From Psyonix_Cone, network developer: https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeague/comments/67nvlb/octane_glitch_update_with_new_evidence_not_server/dguny50/

[MoshPete]

Cool, thanks for the info, cheers!

[Alican]

Afaik virtual servers has 30 and main servers has 60 tickrate. Thats why people trying to avoid (and leave) playing in virtual servers.

[Poor Bastard]

Just like with PUBG, many have the misunderstanding that a higher tick rate would signficantly improve the game when in reality, you likely wouldn't notice any difference, and the server expense goes way up.

[Alican]

Originally posted by Out:

Originally posted by PriZm:

Afaik virtual servers has 30 and main servers has 60 tickrate. Thats why people trying to avoid (and leave) playing in virtual servers.

Nope, wrong.

Explain to me why they tend to lag / rubberband more often compared to actual servers.