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David R

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Posted: 5th Jul 2009 21:48 Edited at: 5th Jul 2009 21:53

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Quote: "The infamous myth of "inaccurate hitboxes"."

That's a real issue, but it's certainly not a bug: it's a very well known side effect of how Valve implement their networking. It's an inaccuracy caused by speed/bandwidth trade-offs, not a logical flaw.

e.g. See this:
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_Multiplayer_Networking#Lag_compensation

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Roxas

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Posted: 5th Jul 2009 21:56

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I hate the networking aspect in source games, that if you get hit you get snapped to the position where you got hit. So if you get behind the corner and server tells you get hit you snap back

There is nothing you can do for it tho.

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AlexI

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Posted: 5th Jul 2009 23:32

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Quote: "MSN Messenger has little flash adverts at the bottom, some of these adverts consume large amounts of CPU time just by having the window open, minimizing does not help."

Just block the page