How to improve the shots registration or hitbox?

[TormenTor]

Sometimes when I shoot someone my shot doesn't register and the guy I shot doesn't take any damage, and that even happens to me with the kar98 which is the most accurate weapon, and I have a ping like 130, not such a bad ping, besides that in DOD1 I have the same ping and I don't have that issue.
So I was reading some guides and I found out that it is possible to improve the connection and improve the shot registration or the hitbox, through some codes that are inserted in the console, but I read that this is done according to the specifications of your PC or something like that.
So my question is, what specs are those?? And what are the codes that help to improve that?
I found some guides with some netcode, some "cl_cmdrate","cl_updaterate", and other things, but I inserted those codes and my game got worse, my shots were barely registering..

[Jack Schitt]

This could be due to your connection quality. Either your connection quality in general, your connection to the server(s) you're playing on, or your connection between you and the opponent you've shot at / has shot at you. There may be nothing you can do about it. Other than join servers you have a really good connection to but that doesn't guarantee there won't be any lag. There will always be some lag in a multiplayer game.

cl_cmdrate and cl_update rate attempt adjusting your connection rate. There are also other tick rate commands we can attempt adjusting however some servers you might join don't allow custom CL's and VAC will detect some of those adjustments and ban you / accuse you of cheating so be careful which ones you mess with and how far you mess with them.

As far as I know we cannot adjust where the hit box is. As we've always had to do playing online we just simply have to adjust our aim to compensate for lag: Where we aim isn't going to be where the bullet(s) we shoot hit. Shoot at a wall from different distances to see where your shots are landing compared to where you're aiming. Adjust how you aim to where your shots are actually landing, don't rely on the reticle because that's almost never been where shots landed in older online multiplayer FPS games.

[Firehex]

This game always was very bad with hit register no matter which rates you use in console. Sometimes you couldn't kill someone point blank with BAR and sometimes you kill with it enemy far away with random headshot.
From my experience only sniper rifle did good with registration

[m4Rn1tSCH]

Up until around 2013 I think, this game also had a much better hit registration. The problems came when they upgraded to the Source 2013 engine that Team Fortress 2 uses.
That net code is worse and the interpolation causes a wrong position being guessed by the game in between two packages.
It works and feels normal for tf2 but there were definitely more awkward moments in dods.

[Grandpa Major]

Originally posted by Firehex:

This game always was very bad with hit register no matter which rates you use in console. Sometimes you couldn't kill someone point blank with BAR and sometimes you kill with it enemy far away with random headshot.
From my experience only sniper rifle did good with registration

The game was never bad. You raider from the TF2 forums.

[Firehex]

Originally posted by U.S.S-MAJOR:

Originally posted by Firehex:

This game always was very bad with hit register no matter which rates you use in console. Sometimes you couldn't kill someone point blank with BAR and sometimes you kill with it enemy far away with random headshot.
From my experience only sniper rifle did good with registration

The game was never bad. You raider from the TF2 forums.

After playing it almost 1300 hours and also playing battlfield 3 and some other shooters i know what i'm talking about. But keep defending this piece of stone age with misirable online

[Grandpa Major]

Originally posted by Firehex:

Originally posted by U.S.S-MAJOR:

The game was never bad. You raider from the TF2 forums.

After playing it almost 1300 hours and also playing battlfield 3 and some other shooters i know what i'm talking about. But keep defending this piece of stone age with misirable online

This game is a timeless classic that will always be better than Battlefield. You raider from the Battlefield forums.

[Firehex]

Timeless classic =)) Ok. Doom, Quake, Unreal, Half-Life and Call of Duty left building in shame