dogstile said:
That's right lady's and gentlemen. Its time for the next glitch of this game. I just joined a server where If you moved left or right you ran at super speed. You could bounce off walls and fly sky high. It was actually rather fun for all involved.
I have a video but of course I've never uploaded a video from my mobile to youtube before, so of course I can't show you it. If anyone has any tips it would be appreciated.
Also, thoughts on this, has anyone encountered it?
(I searched and didn't get anything, so shout all you like, because "nah nah" i'm not listening)
Damn using proxies to post. My entire post got deleted.
To summarize what I already said:
The "glitch" is using a lag switch. A lag switch is a literal "switch" like a router or such. Basically it interupts the sent packet flow, but not received, so on the lag switch user's end, everything seems normal, but on everyone elses, they move in spurts, "teleporting" around. (If I got anything wrong on exactly how a lag switch works, or what it is, please feel free to correct me, anyone. I've never actually used one.)
What happens is the person has a lag switch, and then becomes host. Then, they receive all the people playing's actions, and see everything going on, but everyone else doesn't get the information sent back to them for a few seconds, and then it's in a chunk. The end result of this is that
everyone teleports about, not just a few people. It definetly mixes things up in Search and Destroy.
I know this for three reasons:
One, short of a catch-all "It's a glitch" or "They hacked it", like people who disagree with me tend to explain very slowly (because clearly I just don't understand), this is all I can think of that makes sense.
Two, a guy who was doing it confirmed my beliefs with a "yes, I have a lag switch and am hosting", and I don't see why someone would lie about how they did it if they already said they were doing it. Plus, he knew how a lag switch works, which isn't exactly common knowledge.
Three, every server that I've seen this on there ends up being one guy with a really high score (especially in SD). It would make sense, if that was the only person who could see what was actually happening.
Haseo21 said:
If he said it was on 360, I would be impressed
It is.
Joshknowsbest said:
Old news. Just play BC2 instead, you'll have 2478539539x more fun and less bullshit.
Fail troll is fail. This coming from a huge Battlefield fan.
Edit: Found a decent description of a lag switch, so if mine didn't work, here's another:
By attaching a physical device (called a lag switch) to a standard Ethernet cable, a player is able to disrupt updates/communication from the server with the intent of tricking the game server into continuing to accept client-side updates (which remain unimpeded). The goal is to gain advantage over another player without reciprocation; opponents slow down or stop moving, allowing the lag switch user to easily out-maneuver them. From the opponent-perspective, the player using the device may appear to be teleporting, invincible, have delayed animations or fast-forwarded game play (delivered in bursts), or simply find themselves losing to an invisible opponent. Some gaming communities refer to this method as tapping.
