How to tell what your ping/connection latency is?
I have played killer/survivor at my house without many (if any) problems. And for a long time, I was playing at work when we had downtime and were allowed to do whatever we wanted. However - I had a few games last week that I was getting told I was "lag switching" and cheating with wall hacks and the like and I was completely confused until I went to the streams of these players and noticed how horrible I had been lagging.
On my end - it looked fine, no jerkiness, no problems.. So I'm not sure if there is a way to tell what your own latency/connection to a game is before playing? I sometimes play fine at work - and others I get told I'm cheating - when I don't intend to be gaining an advantage. The connection to the work wifi works fine without any disconnects or drops - so I know it's not my laptops connection to the wifi.
The laptop plays smooth as silk at home, so I know that's not the issue - which means the issue must be connected to the stations internet connectivity itself. So I guess my question is... is there a way to tell your personal connectivity - and if not, can we get one added perhaps? I would like to keep playing at work - I often am the only one on duty for 24/48 hours at a stretch and it gets quite boring. But I don't want to do that at the expense of a VAC ban because I didn't realize that my connection in that game was a piece of crap.
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If you play killer you can see your ping to survivors by hovering over their names in lobby, it's the number between name and ms. ms means milliseconds between you and the survivor machine.
It also has a color scale, green, yellow and red.
If you play survivor you will see the ping between the killers machine and yours at bottom of the chat box.
How many users does your workplace have? Heavy load can increase the latency.
This game uses EAC not VAC.
EAC does not automatically ban you for lagging, if anything it needs to be a manual ban applied by the game developer - but that is very hard to prove if it's on purpose or not etc.. Very unlikely you will get banned for that.Only way to make it better is to use wired connection if possible.
Also some workplaces can use VPN connections which increase the latency depending on how far away the VPN end point is from your geographical location.As a killer your ping will always be 0-10 ("hardware lag") to the "game server" because you are acting as one, but if you play as a survivor your ping will be whatever it is between your machine and the killers machine in milliseconds. And ping isn't everything always, the killers PC may lag causing jerkiness even with low ping, where it fails to report back to clients (survivors) in time which is reasonable to the compared milliseconds (ping).
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At the time of the issues - there were 3 of us on station. My partner who was on his phone, and our administrator who was in the same office as I was set up in working with her emails I think at the time. The Television in the day room was on - but I don't think it uses the internet - I think it's direct cable.
If my partner is cruising netflix - I tend to stay off the multiplayer games because that does bog it down a bit. I haven't tried a hardwire as the router/modem setup is locked in the closet with the station cameras. So no access to that unfortunately.
So if their ping is green/yellow - for survivors at least.. Outside of the after-game chat is there a way to tell in game if you're lagging behind and causing issues in the game itself for others?
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You cannot see if you lag as a killer because you are the game server yourself, only way is to ask survivors or see if they are streaming live.
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Ohhh.. well... Crap. That's unfortunate. I appreciate the answers, Slay.
Guess I'll do my best to make sure that if I play it's when I'm the only one there - and stop if I get a chat that says I was laggy. Lagging in game as surv is no fun - I've been on the survivor end of things.
Thanks a bunch!
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