Ping bar is messed up explain 🤯
When you have bad ms as killer survivors will see your bad oing and you will obviously lag but when you have bad packet loss you won't lag at the survivors will still get the bad ms bar
Which is really messed up
I still, dont know what lacket loss is but it doesnt lag you so it's good
I recently saw a video of sweh which had both killer and survivor pov and he had red packet loss the whole game and he didn't lag and the survivors had the bad killer bar ms the whole match
They need to make a different bar for packet loss becaus it's way different than ms
But can someone explain what packet loss is? And why it doesnt lag you but still shows the survivors bad ms??
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Everything sent over the web are pieces of data broken down into many TCP/IP "packets".
So if you click M1 in the game, the key code might get sent in its own packet over the internet to the game server. Hundreds or thousands of packets can be sent/received in a short amount of time.
Sometimes if your internet modem is getting overloaded, or any number of network issues occur, that packet might get dropped by a router and never sent to its destination.
Normal TCP/IP (Transmit Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) has ways to re-request that packet to be re-sent by your computer, but by the time that negotiation takes place, hundreds of milliseconds could go by.
As you can imagine, a dropped packet at a critical moment can indeed cause a lag effect, especially when many packets are being dropped. Not every packet contains critical information that would cause something like a missed M1, but as packet loss counts increase, poor gameplay experience will be noticeable.
It is possible that dropped packets are what can cause high ping return times, but you could also have high ping return times without any packet loss. That is good for you to know when troubleshooting, Sometimes actual packet loss can occur because of networking hardware issues (network card or cable, wi-fi access points competing for the same channel, flaky modem firmware or hardware) whereas high ping return values can just be caused by your Steam app downloading a 1TB update at the same time someone in your house is streaming Netflix at 4K.
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Yeah but this youtuber had very high packet loss but he didn't lag at all
How
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It is possible that they were playing from an extremely great internet pipe connection. In that case, your computer could be dropping 6% of all its packets. If running over huge bandwidth/fast speed internet, the transaction to re-send a missed packet would still be a pretty short round trip time.
It could also be that the streamer had some kind of packet shaper running that prioritizes important or preferred packet types but drops packets with less critical priority. That way, packets get dropped but not the essential ones.
I'm just guessing here because there are so many factors to consider.
The incident you report seeing is interesting indeed. I think BHVR will be tuning those indicators to ensure it is giving useful and correct information. Could you post the link to the YouTube video you are referring to?
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