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There's a difference between backwards reconciliation (rolling the game world back to process a lagged player's input) leading to "shot around a wall", and packet loss/jitter leading to jumpy player and teleporting.

I make this distinction because I actually think backwards reconciliation is table stakes for any kind of precision game and is usually pretty easy to implement. It can also help solve teleporting: you run backwards reconciliation on movement commands also (not just shooting or other actions), and combine with a little player position extrapolation.

Nothing fixes a 700ms, actually I would guess the ceiling on competitive play is somewhere around 200ms with incredible netcode. But 200ms gets you pretty far: across the US or the Atlantic Ocean for sure (packet loss over those distances is another story though).



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