Lag blasting: Funny yet deadly for the hapless 56ker
Has anyone else seen the 'lag-blasting' effect?
I have only ever seen it while flying round with groups of real players, where suddenly a yellow or red lag spike icon appears on your screen, and you see players flying around, firing one massive blast each 5 seconds or so, releasing 5 seconds worth of laser fire in one go.
Funny thing is that the game tries to play the firing sound for each shot in the blast, which comes out as a sort of garbled shotgun-like sound. To top it off, you even see the ships reverse a few metres each time they fire, so you really get the impression of recoil...
You can normally tell when people are gonna start lag-blasting each other cos you start getting chat lag of up to 30 or so seconds...
Pretty wretched I know... Luckily it doesn't happen often...
I have only ever seen it while flying round with groups of real players, where suddenly a yellow or red lag spike icon appears on your screen, and you see players flying around, firing one massive blast each 5 seconds or so, releasing 5 seconds worth of laser fire in one go.
Funny thing is that the game tries to play the firing sound for each shot in the blast, which comes out as a sort of garbled shotgun-like sound. To top it off, you even see the ships reverse a few metres each time they fire, so you really get the impression of recoil...
You can normally tell when people are gonna start lag-blasting each other cos you start getting chat lag of up to 30 or so seconds...
Pretty wretched I know... Luckily it doesn't happen often...