Gears of War 2 video experiment: Stress-testing Client Side Hit Detection post TU6 - Client vs. Host

*** UPDATE (8th June 2010) ***
We got in trouble with Epic Games' lead coder for posting this video. Threads were deleted and we received an infraction on the official forums. I was also banned from playing Gears of War 2 multiplayer with no explanation. We've decided to drop following experiments...
*** UPDATE (8th July 2010) ***

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The idea for this video is by Fl4m3rX, so full credit for the experiment goes to him. I only helped by recording and uploading it for people to see.

TU6 brings improved CSHD for ballistic weapons, and some people claim that it helps them gib enemies in laggy matches. But is this CSHD as strict as some people believe?

Fl4m3rX is the host for this test. He is from Germany, and I am from Spain. To do this test, he limited his connection's upload speed setting it at different values to create artificial lag for me, the client.

Most of the test was done with his upload capped at 40kbps, which produced 0.5 second bullet ping for me, the average ping a player usually gets from an overseas host.

Another important thing to bear in mind is that for this test the host was only sending data packets to ONE single client, me. Normally the host has to send data to 9 clients.

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[KaayODave]

Umm... It's not even the 8th of July yet...

[ThrenodyCreed]

@KaayODave Whoops, meant to say June. Edited! Thanks for pointing that out haha.

[ComradeJohn]

How was this updated in the future? But yeah, it's not 100% strict, but it wasn't ever stated that it would be 100% strict.

I'm not trying to be a downer, I'm just being the voice of reason.

[ThrenodyCreed]

@ComradeJohn We gave up the experiment after Fl4m3rX got banned from the forums and lost motivation. Luckily he got unbanned afterwards, but we sincerely lost all motivation to do these things if Joe Graf is going to react to our videos with scare tactics and bans.

Maybe sometime in the future and just for fun... but we give up experimenting with Gears 2 for "science".

[ThrenodyCreed]

@ComradeJohn And yes, Epic never said the CSHD would be 100% strict, however some forum members believed it to be so... and Fl4m3rX just wanted to show it's not the case.

[chaotic13000]

idiot the head shot put the aim zoomer up!

[AIVIP3DxX]

@nismojoe So you play battlefield, a game that takes minor skill. You are sad for that. I commented to you after a year of your first comment, and you reply to mine. 10x the idiot. Well 11x becasue you think battlefield is actually good. It's certainly better than cod, but thats the only game its better than. 12x the idiot becasue it doesn't matter how old this vidoe is people still care about the issue. 13x the idiot cause you're an ignorant fuck. 20x the idiot cause I feel like it.

[Doominated]

@nismojoe O YEA PUNK???

WEL UR 5X DA IDIUIT FER SO MAD

[nismojoe]

@AIVIP3DxX Considering the fact that Battlefield 3 is out, yes, you are an idiot. Combine that with the fact that nobody cares about this video anymore and no one has commented on it in over a year, you are twice the idiot. And for soloing me out of eveyone who commented here, 3x the idiot. Any reply to this will make it 4x.

[AIVIP3DxX]

@nismojoe I bought gears3, am I am idiot?

[NeiruNilos]

this video would give epic a lesson, and hopefully make gow3 better

[wush786]

Great video bro!

[demigodlancer]

@plainrandom1 If there was any actual projectile, it would be a similar shot like the torque bow, notice how you do not see any bullets at all, all this video is proving is CSHD actually is preventing the shot from making contact since the target was not at the spot once fired, basically I'm here, you shoot, but really I was somewhere a few inches away, so you do little to no damage, all do to CSHD, so you're the idiot.

[plainrandom1]

@demigodlancer its a balistic weapon and youre an idiot

[demigodlancer]

Fucking idiots... when you are testing the shotgun, the bullets do not project towards anything, basically whenever you shoot they appear on a target or terrain, there is no bullet flying at them, so you need to hit your target whenever you have them in the red zone, you guys fail, soooooooo hard.