High Ping = explosions to other players?

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crycrytax
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High Ping = explosions to other players?

Post by crycrytax »

I was playing online today, and one of the players had 600 ping. After few minutes of playing, 3 other players suffered great distruction after all of their buildings/units exploded. A bit of the opponents army was visible for a bit, but it disapered and everything was blown up. I thought that it was a cheater, but someone told me that with high ping this happens. Is this true?
if so, it should be taken care of in the next update
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Re: High Ping = explosions to other players?

Post by NoQ »

It is pretty common. High pings = bad bad bad sync problems. Don't play with players with high pings.

You can't have a proper sync when it takes a second to send a message to other PC, but there are still even more hard-to-find bugs here.

No, it's not cheating.

upd: Well, i actually remember meeting a few players that cause terrible lags even despite good pings. Just try to avoid them.
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Re: High Ping = explosions to other players?

Post by Buginator »

It isn't just pings, it is how fast the user's machine is as well...
You can have excellent in-game pings, and still have tons of sync issue for you, (and everyone else), since your machine is too slow...

We are working on fixing these issues though. :stressed:
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