@orochi_snk wrote:
If they are placed at a reasonable average distance and both start jumping from one side to the other while firing, they will notice that sometimes the damage of the attacking player does not reach the player who is supposed to have received the damage, even though the attacker shows it the successful damage message.
You describe something different. I am well aware of the typical lag scenario of an asynchronous event. Were both sides have positions of themselves and their projectiles but only one set of data is declared valid. This leads to these time shifts were one side, and sometimes even both sides see things that don't actually happen. I even had this in some extreme scenarios during the recent Taco matches, were a moving Pea Shooter got directly hit 4 times by my Tank Commander, and it needed a 5th direct hit. That was 65 x 5 to vanquish a character that has 125 HP. But it was also a moving target while i was on the move as well. Which brings me back to the ZPG shot:
A ZPG always flies in a straight line to infinity and the target was not moving. If this would have been a typical lag scenario it would show a direct hit with 150 dmg on display, but the target would still be alive.
ZPGs are extremely glitchy when it comes to lag. I had lots of them hit me despite going past me or even after i was behind cover. But at no given time did a direct hit from a straight forward shot just deal mid-air splash damage (60% of 50 equals 30) on a stationary target.
