anyone into racing games / sims?
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will summarize my experience doing MP stuff (I have like 200x more experience with iRacing than anything else, so somewhat slanted) ...
ACC with 1 friend in France, from NZ: no lag and no noticeable issues racing side by side
GT7 with 11-15 console users from Aus, NZ, Japan: occasionally notice another car blinking or jerking around due to their shitty connection, no other problems
iRacing with drivers from all over the world (I often have 230-300 ping, yours would be much better) is mostly impressively stable. It's not unusual to see another car blinking because of their bad connection, which can be tricky to deal with.
The other way netcode manifests is collision detection, depending on everyone's connection you can potentially get situations where on your screen you don't touch, but the server thinks you did and you get pushed off or take damage.
Despite my high ping this doesn't seem to happen to me and I almost never notice netcode issues. See this vid of some close racing in PA league for example:
However the guy here who donated my rig to me complains about netcode a lot, I figure he must just have a shitty ISP
ACC with 1 friend in France, from NZ: no lag and no noticeable issues racing side by side
GT7 with 11-15 console users from Aus, NZ, Japan: occasionally notice another car blinking or jerking around due to their shitty connection, no other problems
iRacing with drivers from all over the world (I often have 230-300 ping, yours would be much better) is mostly impressively stable. It's not unusual to see another car blinking because of their bad connection, which can be tricky to deal with.
The other way netcode manifests is collision detection, depending on everyone's connection you can potentially get situations where on your screen you don't touch, but the server thinks you did and you get pushed off or take damage.
Despite my high ping this doesn't seem to happen to me and I almost never notice netcode issues. See this vid of some close racing in PA league for example:
However the guy here who donated my rig to me complains about netcode a lot, I figure he must just have a shitty ISP
im interested in learning more about this guy that 'donated' his iRacing setup to gumby.
he's ian_bevan on Twitch (and to be pedantic it was just a metal frame for a rig, not a whole setup)
one of those super fast guys (simracing nomenclature is 'alien')
I was checking out his stream and he was building a new rig and saying it was expensive af, I asked if he sold the old one to help pay for it, he said nope, you can have it if you want
gg
the monitor stand was missing a crucial part which made it not quite perfect, but I've binned it now that I've got a heavy duty monitor arm attached to my desk
re: your insinuation, sex work 100% paid for my ps5
i bet you were
he's ian_bevan on Twitch (and to be pedantic it was just a metal frame for a rig, not a whole setup)
one of those super fast guys (simracing nomenclature is 'alien')
I was checking out his stream and he was building a new rig and saying it was expensive af, I asked if he sold the old one to help pay for it, he said nope, you can have it if you want
the monitor stand was missing a crucial part which made it not quite perfect, but I've binned it now that I've got a heavy duty monitor arm attached to my desk
and yep re: broken wrists...the guy who donated the frame for my rig to me had this setup with a fuckin emergency stop button...be careful with those DDs
funnily enough he was another Ian from the UK who moved to Wellington
I'd be interested in a picture of your current setup, not the guy setup that donated the frame.
yep that's what I hear too...really needs to be sturdy to handle a DD wheel
it's changed a lot, but this is the current config!
I've got it set up so it's real easy to switch between PC/PS5
slinky is to racing as kurayami was to planes
Cold
Hard
Fax
Cold
Hard
Fax
I'm not actually particularly knowledgeable about cars or planes though
just a few aspects of both hobbiesI was actually REALLY into an online ww2 flight sim called Aces High over 10 years ago when I was still in the UK...the servers were too empty in NZ times, so I had to pack it in...but it was fantastic fun
I learned a bit about planes and a lot about dogfighting tactics and maneuvers
there are a couple of PSVR2 flight sim games coming soon and I am really hoping to bust out my HOTAS
and reuse some of those skills