[GI] Unknown Damage?

I was watching my recordings and I found something weird. Somehow fighting these two guys I got excess damage (140k n 173k) after I insta and emp. The only one shooting me that time was their pet.

So where did that dmg come from ? Here's the link




Look carefully at 0:10 and 0:32 s

 

My guess is lag or a mine...

 

There were no mines and if you look carefully my shields also took the damage.

I really doubt for any lag cos even in the recording everything's looking quite smooth. I checked the damage and almost all his damage seem to appear on screen (while he was shooting) and neither time any of them shot me after I emp.

 

Sometimes it takes a while for damage to be recorded, often the next time you're hit that's when it shows.

 

When it comes to lag there are generally 2 types, FPS and latency.

FPS lag is when the game doesn't run smoothly and it feels choppy, which you are not experiencing. Latency on the other hand can be hard to see sometimes then other times it will be very obvious and often people don't even know what it is.
For example if you press C to change configs and it takes 2 seconds between pressing C and the config changing then that is latency issues. They can be caused by lots of things, either your ISP, BP servers, communication between your ISP and connecting to BP servers etc.

It's also important to know that the speed of your internet doesn't mean you will have no latency problems which is a common misconception, your ping could skyrocket for 20 seconds then return to normal and not happen again for hours or days. It could literally just jump up for a couple of seconds and you wouldn't notice it but it would have an effect on the game. Then if you have really unreliable internet like mine you will notice latency issues that continue for days x)


What you are seeing in your video is latency issues, as NOOB-BULLY has mentioned it is taking a while for the damage to be 'recorded', just a couple of seconds delay. Then what the client does to save memory is it will add a few the damage values together and display it as a single value at once.

 

Ah, explains a lot. Delay in confi changing is so usual for me, always kills me :/
I guess my ship position bug (actual position of my ship differ than my screen position) also cos of latency.

Anyways Thank you Okapi and others

Can be closed now.

 

I guess this is Amerika 4? I play in this server too. The guys from the clans TOTE, PvP, SAN and other turks and some of the mexicans are really strong sometimes How is possible, that full lf4 on level 16, full bo2 on level 16 and another 2, 3 players cant kill one player from these clans? We have boosters too, its impossible that we attack him and his shield (600k) was not damaged. But sometimes we kill them too easy, 1v1 too, not 5v1 So its possible that they use programs. Other reasons, why i think that they use programs:
when i use insta shield, they can attack me through the insta shield
i cant point them when they use emp, but they point me really good when there are too much npc's and i am with camouflage
they can point me from a long distance really fast - i havent seen them on the minimap, but they already lock me
when they fight, they do really big damage, its just impossible
when they come - i become too much lag (doesnt happens when my alliances and friends are near me)
the npc's dont attack them very often and begin to attack us

I think, that this is so, because the turks have friends from the turkish admins. It isnt possible that no one cant kill them and that they are so strong. I asked my support, but they told me, that admins cant bann or check. There is system and the system checks this. But the system doesnt works for their programms Hope that their programms doesnt works anymore (like the other bots were stopped from darkorbit), because when they dont use programms, they are really weak and cant fight. With programms they doesnt have this problem
And no, i dont have problems with this if they are stronger or not. I just dont like that they become more rights in the game. We will still killing them and keep learning to play and fight better

 

Yes its GA4
These were recent recordings. I know what you're going through. I've similar experience with them. Well I won't go in too much detail (as you explained everything ) and that this is not the right place
Although I've so many wars now. Its always fun to pop them.

Good to see some1 from that server in here

 

Another way to know if you are experiencing lag is the time that a cargo box appears after destroying anything. Instantly = no lag, delayed = lag and the longer it takes to see it the more lag you have.

 

Closing as requested.

Best regards,
.-Raijin-.