Tuesday, March 21, 2000

ZeroPing's Author Answers -- 10:20 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Jibe, the author of the much-maligned ZeroPing mutator, responds to comments posted yesterday if Cliff Bleszinski and Brandon Reinhart's .plans. Here's a snip, check out the rest of his homepage:

Zeroping is an experiment, not a crusade. It may be that client-side hitscan's never been done because there's something horribly wrong with it; if so, I'll be happy to let it go -- you learn the most from the experiments that fail. But the hundreds of technical arguments I've read against ZP seem more like relfexes than anything else, and I've yet to hear any complaints that I don't feel I can address. I'm happy to have Epic in the conversation (although not quite in the format I'd prefer) because I suspect they'll present the harshest and most weighty objections.

To state my position a little more clearly... We've all seen the odd side-effects of client-side movement: warping from one location to another, lifts changing state to compensate, etc. I doubt anyone would call client-side motion a bad thing any more; it's much better to accept the occassional eccentricities than to have a 200ms delay on your "forward" key. I'm arguing that the same is true for the fire button, and whatever oddities client-side hitscan presents.

The "warping" his refers to is, for me, the most annoying thing about Unreal Tournament and makes it very difficult to compensate for lag.

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