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Lag Switchers
Hi, it's me, DoomOrb. Today I'll be talking specifically about Lag switchers. Now for those of you who don't know I'll tell you what lag switchers are.
Lag Switchers are people who usually mess with their internet on purpose so they have a significant advantage in game.
Now usually I get lag switchers as survivor, killers who lag me on a window so badly that I stay frozen or when I think I'm far away I appear in front of them and get hit. While is not exclusive to killers, survivors can lag switch too, but less effectively. Lag Switching survivors tend to teleport in front like some sort of infinite dead hard. While sure is less effective as a survivor is still there and thus an unfair advantage.
Now I'm unaware where they are more lag switchers, I tend to find them more on console than on PC personally, but hey they still exist. Now I might be a mid salty survivor player but I imminently disconnect when I'm facing a lag switcher. Never in my life will I allow myself to give a bbq stack to a lag switcher. Is not even worth being there.
Now I understand bad connections, but when you face a lag switcher, you know what they are when you play against them. You can just feel the difference when playing against a lag switcher vs a person with bad internet.
Now I have heard that when dedicated servers come, this will solve this issue permanently, and I do hope it does. I do hope and pray that the devs do solve this with dedicated servers. Because when they do I would actually play more survivor than killer. Because I'll be honest, we can all agree that is never fun to play against a lag switcher. Like ever.
Devs if you're reading this, I wish you success in making sure these dedicated servers are a success. The game depends on it. We're counting on you. You've done a good job so far, so I'm expecting great things.
With love, DoomOrb
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People who you think are lag switching, are not. They just have bad internet. "A lag switch is a piece of equipment installed on a home network that temporarily delays the flow of traffic to the internet. In an online gaming context, the physical toggle can be switched on to delay gameplay to give the lag switcher the upper hand."
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You absolutely don't need anything physical to cause lag
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Who cares, lag switching is history soon with dedicated servers. Just eat it till the release, that's what I'm doing.
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Not to cause lag, no. Like I said, he is mistaking lag, caused by bad internet, with lagswitching, which requires a actual lagswitch.
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It's the wifi at the mcdonald
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No its a method of messing with your ethernet cord, I've been in matches where every chase starts out fine. But then the killers stand still and it ends with me being picked up
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On consoles you do but yeah PCs can download throttling software. "Lagswitch" is used to describe both nowadays I guess /shrug
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I have been in those chases as well. It isn't lagswitching, trust me.
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End of September Bud Until then suck it up.
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It literally is
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Please, look up the definition of lagswitching that I copy and pasted above.
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"A lag switch is a piece of equipment installed on a home network that temporarily delays the flow of traffic to the internet. In an online gaming context, the physical toggle can beswitched on to delay gameplay to give the lag switcher the upper hand." Like I said, its a process of messing with your ethernet cord, like pulling it out for a small periods of time to stop survivors in chase, as it shown in the photos releated to the term lag switching. Trust me I use to be a sweaty sad person back in the Xbox 360 days lmao
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As did I, friend. Pulling the ethernet cord out USUALLY makes you DC in DBD.
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That is true, But it still happens. Ethernet cable has something to with it
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I'm not sure if you're trolling or if the site you used to find that definition is trolling.
I'll just say that "lagswitching" is defined by saturating your internet connection to cause a massive number of dropped or delayed packets during a multiplayer game.
Just trust me on this bud, the internet is flooded with incorrect and mis-information - and this is a great example.
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Other guy supported my definition.
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well that just simply makes 2 people wrong in this thread. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure they exist. But they exist, because people who know, are capitilizing on the people that don't know. Lag switching has been around since the beginning of online video games.
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Let me put it another way.
You can hack a computer, but you can't use a "life" hack. It's a word that people who are ignorant to the real definition, use. That same thing has happened because a bunch of kids bought little boxes to go on their controllers. It's funny to see it as the "definition" though now, on several of the top Google results for the definition. Again, all created out of ignorance.
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i rare see lagswitching in dbd. and even then it's debatable. i think i've seen one real case and it was so obvious. but that was a long time ago
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People here must be so lucky
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I fully agree that a LOT of lagswitching accusations are BS, but it is very much a thing that is possible and that some people do.
If "convenient" lag happens once in a game or something then whatever, it happens. But when someone outplays the killer and then the gamestate freezes as everyone starts running into walls, and when it resumes they immediately teleport onto the killer's shoulder... and this happens THREE times in a single game... with NO connections hiccups otherwise, then it's not very likely that it's just a coincidence.
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I’m not sure if the dedicated servers happened or not, but if that did happen? Are people still seeing lag switching? Over the last two or three days, I’ve had some terrible games where the killer practically teleported right in front of me, doubled my vaults to the point that the killer could hit me twice, etc. just curious after reading this thread. I play on Xbox one, so I figured lag switching wouldn’t be deliberate, but I’m also not super tech savvy. Please let me know!
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Woops, sorry. New to the forums. I’ll start new discussions from now on. Thank you for answering
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