GHOSTSHOTS

[Uhtdred 238]

I saw less ghostshots in the beta..

 

Do we have to wait until beta to see ghostshots fixed? Can't you fix ghostshots in the current APB??

[wHisHi 206]

9 minutes ago, Uhtdred said:

I saw less ghostshots in the beta..

 

Do we have to wait until beta to see ghostshots fixed? Can't you fix ghostshots in the current APB??

I believe they cant

[vsb 6171]

you're asking orbit to fix something that's already been fixed in the future, essentially doing extra work that will all be wasted once they delete the current engine version of apb

[NotZombieBiscuit 3146]

Na. 2014ish had the most ghost shots.

[Uhtdred 238]

9 hours ago, 404 said:

you're asking orbit to fix something that's already been fixed in the future, essentially doing extra work that will all be wasted once they delete the current engine version of apb

that's like saying "nvm this current engine, don't fix any issues with it, because engine update is coming".

 

 

that makes no sense at all.

[vsb 6171]

2 hours ago, Uhtdred said:

that's like saying "nvm this current engine, don't fix any issues with it, because engine update is coming".

 

 

that makes no sense at all.

it makes perfect sense and its already what's happening to a lot of stuff (e.g. mobile radar tower), everything on the current engine is likely being weighed on a scale - is it worth it to pull devs off the engine upgrade for this or not?

 

i assume ghostshots are a time intensive problem, so it doesnt make sense to delay the engine upgrade looking for a fix when the engine upgrade is the fix

 

 

Edited September 4, 2020 by 404
typo

[Flaws 1033]

Some people still don't seem to understand that what happens on the current live game doesn't matter all that much. The game is not being advertised or marketed anywhere and the game is kept on more or less life support so we can play it in the mean time. They are doing some band aid fixes that can be done easily on this engine (like they have) so they can later port them to the new one but there are other issues they cannot fix easily on this engine. What matters in the end is what the end product will look and perform like whenever they decide to market the game and actually try to gain players. That is after the new engine does come out and many things (ghost shots included) are hopefully fixed. This is how I see it at least.

[R3ACT3M 489]

What is a ghost shot?

 

Is that because the guns are server sided so sometimes you shoot but nothing lands because the bullet never existed in the first place?

[BlatMan 711]

What do you mean by ghost shots? Reloaded partially fixed the issue with weapons shooting client sided but not shooting server sided.

 

If you mean shots not hitting, that's a network problem. It's been bad since they switched from Softlayer to Amazon AWS .

[Uhtdred 238]

18 minutes ago, SquirrelFace said:

What do you mean by ghost shots? Reloaded partially fixed the issue with weapons shooting client sided but not shooting server sided.

 

If you mean shots not hitting, that's a network problem. It's been bad since they switched from Softlayer to Amazon AWS .

 

with oscar, for example, I shoot 4 times but APB only register 3 of them.

 

I hear the sound of the gun shooting 4 times, and the animation of 4 shoots, however, in the magazine at top right of the screen, only spent 3 shots.

let's say you sucesfully shot 4 times to the enemy, u should have killed him, however, due to ghostshots, you only hit him 3 times, and not 4, so enemy is still alive.

 

Edited September 4, 2020 by Uhtdred

[PingOVER9000 189]

12 hours ago, Uhtdred said:

 

with oscar, for example, I shoot 4 times but APB only register 3 of them.

 

I hear the sound of the gun shooting 4 times, and the animation of 4 shoots, however, in the magazine at top right of the screen, only spent 3 shots.

let's say you sucesfully shot 4 times to the enemy, u should have killed him, however, due to ghostshots, you only hit him 3 times, and not 4, so enemy is still alive.

 

Oscar fire a shot composed of 2 bullets , when meanwhile u fire u have to have a good tracking for letting the burst of 2 bullets hit every time your opponents, otherwise u will need more than 4 shot times for killing your opponent.

For tracking well a opponent u have to decent aim/ predict (improving by playing).... and a good latency.

 

before when I have a better connection I didnt have a lot of matter killing with 4 shots (after 500 hrs of solo oscar v.v ),  I dont know if APB dont register one or two of it for the higher difference between my client/ server side, we know some weapons suffer more than others a little higher latency than others.

 

Weird, I Tried Oscar with CJ in closer ranges I see a improvment, maybe if Lo JUST improve  a little the fire rate between each burst of the burst, it may a be democratic solution

[BlatMan 711]

22 hours ago, Uhtdred said:

 

with oscar, for example, I shoot 4 times but APB only register 3 of them.

 

I hear the sound of the gun shooting 4 times, and the animation of 4 shoots, however, in the magazine at top right of the screen, only spent 3 shots.

let's say you sucesfully shot 4 times to the enemy, u should have killed him, however, due to ghostshots, you only hit him 3 times, and not 4, so enemy is still alive.

 

Alright you actually mean shots not shooting server sided. Best way to combat that with semi-auto weapons is to use CJ3 or shoot slightly slower. The servers don't run at a high enough tickrate.

[Uhtdred 238]

On 9/5/2020 at 7:02 PM, SquirrelFace said:

Alright you actually mean shots not shooting server sided. Best way to combat that with semi-auto weapons is to use CJ3 or shoot slightly slower. The servers don't run at a high enough tickrate.

 

tried CJ3 but didn't fix it... besides oscar is useless with cj3 imo

[CookiePuss 5379]

1 hour ago, Uhtdred said:

 

tried CJ3 but didn't fix it... besides oscar is useless with cj3 imo

it is, it reduces the time between rounds in a burst, not between bursts

[BlatMan 711]

4 hours ago, Uhtdred said:

 

tried CJ3 but didn't fix it... besides oscar is useless with cj3 imo

For the most part ya it is, but thought it might help prevent ghost shots. It might be routing issue. I have issues to US-West, and every so often US-East craps out. I need to disconnect/reconnect to the district to fix it on east.

Edited September 11, 2020 by SquirrelFace

[Uhtdred 238]

1 hour ago, SquirrelFace said:

For the most part ya it is, but thought it might help prevent ghost shots. It might be routing issue. I have issues to US-West, and every so often US-East craps out. I need to disconnect/reconnect to the district to fix it on east.

yes, it's a latency issue.

 

When I had 50ms i didnt have ghostshots at all or very few ones..

[TheSxW 47]

well ghostshoots are mainly client predicting you shooted but that information didnt get into the server so server rejects the information you killed a player cause that ONE shoot didnt get delivered to the game server. There are numerous factors coresponded to this few of them: Low game FPS, high Latency, increased server latency, stutters, macro usage without knowledge how to setup it (aka 1ms clicks), high FPS and high latency, packet losses... etc and so on.

[Resine 144]

Ghostshots are wonderful feature, I love those situations where I play against someone that utilizes movement and cover well, you hit first SG in his face you miss the 2nd, and the 3rd that ought to kill him is a fucking ghostshot and you end up dead.

[Hexerin 1140]

Was wondering how long it'd take for a ghost shot thread to show up after the reversion back to BattlEye. Let this be your reminder that this issue is one of the many, many things exacerbated by BattlEye.

[Uhtdred 238]

5 hours ago, Hexerin said:

Was wondering how long it'd take for a ghost shot thread to show up after the reversion back to BattlEye. Let this be your reminder that this issue is one of the many, many things exacerbated by BattlEye.

No, I have had ghostshots with battle eye, easy anti cheat, punkbuster, fairfight, and whatever anti cheat u insert here.

Edited September 28, 2020 by Uhtdred

[BlatMan 711]

We can't even joke around in the general discussion forums now?

[CookiePuss 5379]

6 hours ago, SquirrelFace said:

We can't even joke around in the general discussion forums now?

So long as you follow the rules, joke all you want. 

Also, it's up to you to read and understand the rules. 

[Motorola 107]

i hit a 300 ping player 3 times with a sitting duck without missing and then died. he even had the duck tagger over his head. id say "hp hacks" but yeah thats not a thing.

[Hexerin 1140]

On 9/28/2020 at 3:42 AM, Uhtdred said:

No, I have had ghostshots with battle eye, easy anti cheat, punkbuster, fairfight, and whatever anti cheat u insert here.

Your internet service giving you packet loss is not the fault of APB. Ghost shots were non-existent during EAC, and only really showed up during peak hours after multiple weeks without server maint while under FairFight (although I don't think it was directly because of FairFight, but rather something else causing trouble during the same period of time). Punkbuster goes without saying of course, absolute garbage service that did nothing of value while simultaneously grinding the game into a miserable broken mess.

[cowhorseman 441]

Just blame the BRs for ghost shots. they get most of the blame already for what happens so why not add more.

or as I've seen about 100 million times "just buy a new pc, there not expensive for a good one"