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[h0B0]

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[Elix]

I'm almost certain that's a case of the guy crashing and the server partially disengaging physics because it's receiving bad (i.e., no) data from the client, and it's doing its best to attempt client-side prediction. He was moving in that direction and hovering upwards slightly, and then he stopped sending data to the server (because his game crashed), so the server attempted its best guess based on what it knew about his momentum. Then, it finally gave up and decided that he really is gone, and so it dropped his ghost from the server.

If you've ever played any online video game (Hawken or otherwise) and you experience a sudden change in your position, where you suddenly are 15 feet behind where you were just a second ago (or similar), this is called rubber-banding and it's a side effect of the interaction between lag between the client and server and the client and server disagreeing about where you actually should be because of that lag.

[h0B0]

Thank you for making things clear.I am aware of the rubber banding, I just thought it was odd that he would go flying in such a way and thought it could possibly be useful for the devs.

[Elix]

Oh, no, it's definitely a good report. And I laughed when I saw the sudden magic levitating Fred mech just floooooaaaat up and then pin himself to the side of the tower.

[h0B0]

i wonder where it would have gone, if the tower wasnt there....

[[HWK]Deuy]

h0B0, on November 14 2012 - 03:39 PM, said:

i wonder where it would have gone, if the tower wasnt there....

It would have gone to Valhalla, but the tower knew it still had unfinished robobusiness and was desperately trying to reason with it to stay.  In the end it was all a dream.  This is an intended feature of the game, so I'll let everyone know it's working correctly.

[[HWK]Deuy]

But seriously, thanks for posting it-  I've never seen that before so it's good to have a video and bug it.