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What exactly is Lag Switching and how do you know if you are a victim of a player using it?
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Usually its some one who purposefully makes their own connection worst to gain the upperhand since they can actually control it.
This use to be an even worst issue when the game was P2P and the killer was always the host.
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It's usually, but not always, a literal switch that interrupts the connection between the server and player just long enough to avoid being kicked from the game. Sometimes it's software that intentionally taxes the user's connection to deliver the same effect without physically breaking the connection. Those few offline seconds can be played "normally" without the other players being able to do anything, then everything gets re-synced once the connection is reestablished. Short distance teleports, avoiding damage, dealing mass amounts of damage in an instant, etc. Depends on the game, but the effect is usually weird and advantageous.
TL:DR; Za Warudo.
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Short and simple: Weaponized latency. Its name comes from the times it was a literal button on your net cable that pressing it would make you have an spike of lag and would give you some kind of advantage.
Nowadays, usually lag don't suppose any kind of advantage unless you find some kind of bug / exploit in how the game handle lag that allows to basically cheat. In DbD right now there is people that use it to make short jumps forward when you are not looking... :
... or to maintain speed from perks or getting hit for more time than it should:
But in other games, things can get really crazy:
The only way to "detect" them is if they have being playing normally all the match, but suddenly they get an spike of lag and start doing strange things (like the Bill on the first video) or they seems to casually have an high ping only when is convenient for them (all the chase was fine, but just when you are going to hit them they start lagging, etc.). By the way, in DbD high ping is indicated by a red bar besides the survivor's name and an icon on top of the survivor's names for the killer.
Also, you have to take in count that many times lag switching and "regular cheating" look the same, so the cheater won't have an high ping when doing it because they are simply not using it, and also that just because someone have high ping doesn't means they are lagswitching.
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Well today, just before I got face camped and hit on hook through all hook phases with no teammates around and with literally no progress on the self unhook option, just before I was hooked, the indicator popped that the killer had high ping. My self unhook bar didn't gain an inch throughout both hook stages.
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Were all Gens done?
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No, not a single one
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That sounds like some hacking program had being used, more than a lag switch. There's have being a lot of cases of both things lately and there are numerous post in the forum documenting them.
The best thing you can do in those cases is recording it (if you have an Nvidia card you can use Geforce Experience and the "Replay" recording to save the last couple of minutes of gameplay without having to record the whole match, and there is other programs with the same functionality if you don't) and open a ticket so BHVR can ban the cheater.
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