On the subject of "Ping Abuse"

[UltimateAFS]

This is why i call them ping warriors, not ping abusers :3

 

[FPSFGaming]

This is why i call them ping warriors, not ping abusers :3

DUDE I LOVE YOU

 

[Dave | Rev]

This is why i call them ping warriors, not ping abusers :3

Ahaha

 

[Edog]

soggypickle <--- 30 MS to US.

Yet it's possible to beat him if you can strafe. This Ping-Abuse BS wouldn't be a thing if people actually strafed, like geez, when did strafing become non-existant?

 

[QualiaV2]

soggypickle <--- 30 MS to US.

Yet it's possible to beat him if you can strafe. This Ping-Abuse BS wouldn't be a thing if people actually strafed, like geez, when did strafing become non-existant?

30 ms isn't even considered amazing in EU lmao

 

[Bamber]

I call ping abuse on people with 110 ping.

Be grateful for you ping, players.



(I'm kidding most of the time when I call ping abuse on people btw)

 

[Edog]

30 ms isn't even considered amazing in EU lmao

Well half of the "good ping" players on EU end up being hackers... so there's that.

 

[QualiaV2]

Well half of the "good ping" players on EU end up being hackers... so there's that.

Such as...?

 

[soggypickle]

Such as...?

To be honest, there's a lot more US and AU moderators than there are EU moderators at the moment, so there's a lot of hackers on EU. Don't worry though, the higher-ups are going to hire some EU ones soon.

 

[le quack]

I don't get good ping anywhere ;-;

 

[I_love_desk]

Oh really? I'll bet you have good ping yourself. It's so easy when you are on the wrecking side of things to think "they are just bad and couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with that sword if they tried." But if someone has a reasonable amount of experience with swordfighting, they should be able to destroy an expert with bad ping.

This happens to me all the time. I go up to some random kid with a 1/100 ratio and leather armor and prepare to strafe his socks off. While I strafe around him quickly, he just stands there and gets massive combos on me and continues to slice me up while I am sprinting and jumping away from him. There are some games where I just know I will not win because there is a player with incredible ping just sitting at corn, and whenever I go to swordfight him, he seems to have a forcefield though he is not hacking. It is the worst in water, when I get directly underneath someone and they continue to get massive combos on me despite the fact that I am directly below him, clicking 8 times per second, pointing right at him, and getting a solid 60 fps. People with good ping also seem to be able to shoot me around corners, as if all they have to do is shoot where I was a second ago and it still counts. Don't even get me started on fishing rod, as I can only use mine every one or two seconds because when I scroll away from it it takes a bit to reel in, whereas most people don't have a delay at all. (This does not happen in single player.) Good ping does not only help with each individual weapons, it seems to give you insight into the future and it allows to see subtle details and subconsciously factor them into a bow shot or flint and steel placement. There is indeed "body language" which is so important when choosing how to combat a person.

I realize that you can get to the top of the leaderboards with bad ping, such as darkrai did, but his was not even that bad, and he had solid fps. If you rely on secondary weapons, you can get by with pretty bad ping, but that does not mean it is not a major disadvantage. The playing style differences between darkrai and Huahwi are startling, as Huahwi could just bull rush any team and massacre them, whereas darkrai seems to be much more tactical and careful. You just have to adjust to your ping.

In my experience: Nah. If you ever go on MCswish, where you can /ping people, these accusations are everywhere. Generally when someone calls someone else out for it, I will check their ping, and 90% of the time it will be 50+ (a.k.a average on EU). Also, I rarely get called a 'ping abuser' myself, but it only ever happens when I'm at my dads, where I get 100-150 ping. At my mums, where I get 20-25, I never get accused of it.

Moral of the story: As soon as anyone is good and accurate with the sword, they are a ping abuser, according to a lot of people. The term is just ridiculous, and it's insanely difficult to actually tell how good someone's ping is just from fighting them. Most of these people with 'insanely good ping' are just good with the sword, and people just use it as an excuse.

"Oh, he beat me in a sword fight. I'm amazing, no-one could ever beat me. So he's a ping abuser!!1 Definitely not just good with the sword! No-one is better than me with the sword!"

I WILL REPEAT AGAIN. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOD PING AND BEING GOOD WITH THE SWORD. THE CORRELATION ISN'T EVEN THAT STRONG.

 

[TomahawkGoesChop]

I once got called a ping abuser on us, when im eu ;-;