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Oct 13, 2014 @ 4:42pm

Bad Charger hit detection on surviviors in versus

Does anybody else see their Charger model just sliding past surviviors when they charge but the game went nope your charger missed even though it looks like you should have hit them? I'm not saying it always happens, just sometimes. Moreover, on rare occasions it looks like I miss my charge on my screen but then the survivior suddenly appears to be grabbed by me and my "missed" charge actually registered.

My ping is good i.e. 30-60 and my internet connection is 50Mb up/3mb down and does not have packet loss.

Last edited by apple; Oct 13, 2014 @ 4:50pm

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Plus_√

Oct 13, 2014 @ 4:47pm

A thing called lerp affects the position of players in the game. Its hard to explain, but its the primary cause of going through other players.

Dharok

Oct 13, 2014 @ 5:22pm

For more: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_Multiplayer_Networking#Lag_compensation

Rumi

Oct 13, 2014 @ 8:03pm

If targets you were charging at had bad ping or lagged, the hitbox could be inaccurate as well.

MaybeWaitNevermind has Left 4 Dead 2

Oct 14, 2014 @ 5:41am

I know that feel... Today I was going for a karma charge on the bridge on The Parish, but my Charger just slided past the survivor instead of grabbing him, fell into the water and died. Such a nasty bug.

m30w

Oct 14, 2014 @ 8:09am

change ur lerp to something lower, it brings the server side hitboxes closer to the models. If you're playing at 100 lerp(default) you have to lead the survivors a little bit to land the charge. Theres a good video on youtube about it..nvm here u go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctHercXfABQ

Blaquicat

Oct 14, 2014 @ 1:25pm

Originally posted by lil_meow:
change ur lerp to something lower, it brings the server side hitboxes closer to the models. If you're playing at 100 lerp(default) you have to lead the survivors a little bit to land the charge. Theres a good video on youtube about it..nvm here u go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctHercXfABQ

The latency is lower than the actual lerp (0 ping/100 lerp, because its a bot)
Lerp is how much ahead the hitbox will be, in this case 100ms in front.
If you got 200ping and 100lerp the hitbox will be placed after the model insted of before.
The best lerp is the actual latency, so the hitbox will be placed exactly where the model is, or where is "supposed" to be depending on the conection quality.

Last edited by Blaquicat; Oct 14, 2014 @ 1:29pm

apple

Oct 24, 2014 @ 7:00am

Originally posted by Blaquicat:
Originally posted by lil_meow:
change ur lerp to something lower, it brings the server side hitboxes closer to the models. If you're playing at 100 lerp(default) you have to lead the survivors a little bit to land the charge. Theres a good video on youtube about it..nvm here u go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctHercXfABQ
The latency is lower than the actual lerp (0 ping/100 lerp, because its a bot)
Lerp is how much ahead the hitbox will be, in this case 100ms in front.
If you got 200ping and 100lerp the hitbox will be placed after the model insted of before.
The best lerp is the actual latency, so the hitbox will be placed exactly where the model is, or where is "supposed" to be depending on the conection quality.

Thanks