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All models use an input buffer. The new options handle maintaining it differently, similar to how Overwatch does it. (See Tim Ford's GDC talk around ~25minutes in for more context on their approach)

The Overwatch approach involves very very subtly slowing down or speeding up the client's game simulation to maintain an input buffer size that can handle variation in network traffic.

Not exactly. The new methods are just that - new - so we just didn't want to oversell them until people get some hours into testing them out in a variety of real world conditions.

The new stuff is closer to how Overwatch does latency mitigation, which has some advantages over the Legacy model in theory, but real world is always different.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueEmiDM94IE

Also worth watching Tim Ford's talk on Overwatch architecture (Network stuff around 25 minutes in)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3aieHjyNvw...

You are correct, the ends of longer cars have a higher velocity than shorter cars when dodging. However the bulk of the impact force between the ball and the car comes from the extra forces that we add after the collision response is calculated by the physics engine, and these extra forces depend entirely on the relative linear velocity between the car and the ball. Angular velocity does not factor into the extra forces.

Slick!

That's... incredible.

Our tentative plan is to 'squish' the curve to maintain everyone's relative placement, but reduce how extreme the outliers are on the top end numerically so it plays nicer with Matchmaking.

It will probably be nonlinear so we can account for the extreme edges of the MMR curve without putting them right back into a situation where they have few valid opponents in queue.

This is something we'd like to address soon. I don't have a firm timeline on it right now to give you yet.

Come together! Seriously, though, thanks for the kind words. :)

“wHy DoEs ThE oThEr TeAm AlWaYs GeT bEtTeR pOwEr-UpS, wHy DoN’t I eVeR gEt SpIkEs???”

Lot to unpack here, here we go:

• No "Party Up" quick chat, but something I can circulate internally for adding.
• You send Party Invites to Friends (platform or RocketID) and they'll get a notification they can accept asynchronously. If you're talking about inviting non-friends, you'd need their RocketID and have to friend them (and they have to accept) before you can party up. Given that you can't chat cross-platform by default, this is tricky, however...
• There's a "Recent Players" tab in the in-game Friends List you can use to friend people you played with recently without them having to chat their RocketID to you. The Friends List is part of the bottom panel next to Party Chat and can be accessed mid/endgame, you don't have to go to the Main Menu to use it.
• Chat Waivers aren't unique to any particular qualifications e.g. Club Membership. It's simply only allowed for Party Chat specifically. Private Match "open chat" would require us to ...

Pog

Solid work!

Dat form! Dat poise!!

Classy!

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Dig the clear line style on Merc!

Scarab Power! 💥

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No chill with that skill. 🥶👍🔥