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Thanks for the link! Looking into this as well.

Not confirming or denying that any of these are happening (or if you're decoding the scribble text on those stickies correctly :D), but which of those ideas is most exciting to you?

This has been fixed, but just barely missed the 0.50 build cut - enjoy it while it lasts, next patch it'll be gone xD

One quick comment - the Phoenix clip, there is a network indicator in the top right.

Latency isn't displayed anywhere in the clip - but if your ping to the server is high enough (well above 100ms), you can actually be beyond the maximum hitreg rewind limit on the server (we cap it to prevent cheaters & bad feels for the victim - nobody likes getting killed after-the-fact when they duck behind cover).

^ When ping is beyond max rewind, it can cause visual desyncs with what you see on the client compared to what happens on the server.

- David

Thank you for the post (there have been several on a similar topic).

We adjusted Deadzone accuracy with the 0.50 patch (details here: https://beta.playvalorant.com/en-us/news/game-updates/valorant-patch-notes-0-50/).

Those deadzone changes exposed some movement accuracy desync between client and server. Your shots process correctly on the server, but the feedback you get on you local client can be at times incorrect.

This issue has been in the game code for a long time, but was previously quite subtle. It took the 0.50 deadzone changes to make it super ...

Crazy bug - thank you for the video!

We have a hunch that this is related to the gun firing off a round as you drop it - and since you a no longer an "owner" of the weapon, the bullets can deal damage to you. The one or two times we've had it happen with internal playtests it was with the Bulldog (more common of a repro because of the bursts). Hopefully we will find a fix soon :)

You're not wrong! Sometimes it isn't a priority, some projects just don't really care about CPU performance.

Everything is a trade off so it's not too surprising that my hypothetical dating sim isn't trying out new tech to try and use all cores and get to 1000fps. Big name cinematic console games are also happy running at 30fps (though these are normally GPU bound so they're preferring higher resolutions over high frame rates).

In fact one reason we don't see more progress in multi-core computation for games is that most modern games are limited by GPU power rather than CPU power. Spreading the game work over multiple CPUs might not even help the frame rate if you're stuck waiting for the GPU to do its thing.

In most games changing your graphics settings will have a massive impact on your frame rate, this generally means that the GPU is the limiting factor. It's actually rare to have a game like VALORANT where the graphics settings don't actually do a lot ...

The industry is getting there but it's hard because there's a lot of state in a video game and each object that needs to be updated is often dependent on a lot of other objects.

Modern engines are building task dependency graph systems that let subsystems updated independently from each other on different threads but for many engines these subsystems aren't first class citizens and a lot of programming effort is required to get them working.

To process a frame you generally have to read network updates from the server, read input from the player, use this information to update the state of each game object, prepare a list of things to be rendered and send that list to the graphics card.

You can add some threads here, for example you often have a input polling thread and a network packet handling thread (checking for input/messages etc). There's also often a rendering thread that is responsible for shuffling objects to the graphics card when they're ready to...

This was just the first go-around adding Logout. The version I really want to try is a checkbox next to the Exit button that says "Log me out", and the preference would persist between sessions.

I figure you're either the type of person who needs to log out because you're on a shared machine (or similar), or you never log out. Hopefully we can get a revision done sometime soon.

| 192.168.0.1 - 0 | 426 | 426 | 1 | 5 | 119 | 1 |

Hop 1 has a worst ping of 119 - please make sure you're wired to your router and if so, maybe try replacing your cable etc. Something in your home shouldn't be responding that slowly.

6 19 ms 33 ms 59 ms bu-ether19.chctilwc00w-bcr00.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.42]

This hop is sick. You can run longer type traces with pingplotter etc. They may try and blame CPU on the device or schedulers for a slower response but the honest truth is you can see 16ms is possible to this location yet you have variance up to 59ms. This could be for a lot of different reasons but more commonly, some interface is running hot and your packets are waiting in buffers.

Where VPNs may help is that they tend to have unicast addresses and your can route 'around' these spots. Unfortunately if everybody starts jumping on those same routes, they'd just end up overloaded too.

Like I suggested above, logging these issues with Spectrum does help. Their own data will show spikes in complaints about poor performance. from pockets of their user base and it may help them prioritize upgrading vs all the other engineering opportunities their teams...

1 4 ms 4 ms 3 ms 192.168.0.1

2 17 ms 28 ms 14 ms 072-031-129-005.res.spectrum.com [72.31.129.5]

3 17 ms 24 ms 18 ms 071-046-027-061.res.spectrum.com [71.46.27.61]

4 31 ms 136 ms 40 ms bundle-ether28.tamp27-car1.bhn.net [72.31.208.77]

5 27 ms 43 ms 30 ms 072-031-006-000.res.spectrum.com [72.31.6.0]

6 51 ms 166 ms 60 ms hun0-0-0-5-tamp20-cbr1.bhn.net [72.31.3.51]

7 74 ms 49 ms 61 ms bu-ether19.chctilwc00w-bcr00.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.42]

8 81 ms 49 ms 67 ms bu-ether17.hstqtx0209w-bcr00.tbone.rr.com [66.109.1.70]

9 61 ms 78 ms 69 ms ge-3-1-0.cr1.sea20.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.90]

10 44 ms 99 ms 47 ms 66.109.5.121

11 * * * Request timed out.

Hop 4 shows some huge issues before you're even out of the local area. Can you log a fault wit...

More bandwidth wont improve your latency in most circumstances. In case I've missed it - which ISP are you with and what city are you in? If you want you can DM me your IP address as well and I will see if there's something that we can do.

Agreed!

I'm really bad about Discord pm's- I'll try to check them more often (I'm sure other there are probably other messages in there I've missed by now). Easiest way to reach me is through DM on reddit or Twitter (mostly twitter tbh).

As for the Bucky bug, I would love to see the clip! If you're right clicking at point-blank range, you should only deal minor damage (the shell has to go a minimum set distance before exploding into the shotgun blast, like Roadhog's. But if it's dealing no damage at all that's something I'm not currently aware of!

Videos of bug reports are the best. Thank you for recording your bugs, once again recordings are hugely helpful to the team.

Heya! I work on the team that's responsible for hitreg, and spent a ton of time digging into this stuff this patch (I care a lot about hitreg- that sh*t's important).

We can't confirm my theory is 100% correct yet (working on validating it still) but there's two things I believe are happening here.

1.) Tracers fired while inaccurate from movement are not synced to the server like they are when you're standing still or from firing error (those two are synced, so the tracers you see on your screen are what's happening on the server). This means that when you have movement inaccuracy, you may see tracers pass through an enemy and not deal damage. The changes we put in increase the time it takes to become accurate from running and we increased movement inaccuracy while walking, which means it's likely people are movement inaccurate more often. I know I am, re-learning the muscle memory timings for stop-and-shoot is hard.

2.) The spark hit impacts aren't helping ...

You could try manually disabling the integrated GPU and see what happens (there's some risk that you'll have no display device and you'll end up in a bad state if you do this)

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