Desync in D2R PvP

[Mousehouse-11421]

I’m a big D2 fan, got probably more hours in D2 than in any other game, but I am a total noob when it comes to PvP.

One reason, why PvP never really spoke to me, was desync. If a pally charges me and I die before he reaches me on my screen, or a WW barb moves left and I die standing far right from him, it’s quite annoying.

On the other hand, I read, that people intentionally desync and even counter desyncs with their own desyncs. That sounds like a feature to me. Do you think, this feature is going to be gone (mostly) on newer servers?

Also Tele stomping might feel different on better servers, I guess. Do you think, PvP in D2R will be significantly different to the old D2 PvP?

[OShogun-1317]

@Mousehouse-11421

On the other hand, I read, that people intentionally desync and even counter desyncs with their own desyncs. That sounds like a feature to me. Do you think, this feature is going to be gone (mostly) on newer servers?

It’s one of those issues/bugs/exploits that becomes a feature. No game ever is designed with desync in mind, you usually don’t want for that to happen, but from what I read, in D2 it makes PvP interesting. There are situations like that in Starcraft, such as drone drilling which was a bug in the first starcraft but became so popular as a strategy that they implemented it as a feature in the second game (same for mutalisk stacking)

[Mousehouse-11421]

@OShogun-1317

It’s one of those issues/bugs/exploits that becomes a feature. No game ever is designed with desync in mind, you usually don’t want for that to happen, but from what I read, in D2 it makes PvP interesting. There are situations like that in Starcraft, such as drone drilling which was a bug in the first starcraft but became so popular as a strategy that they implemented it as a feature in the second game (same for mutalisk stacking)

Yeah right! I am wondering, if VV is trying to “implement” desyncs in D2R. It is kinda hard to believe for me, that they intentionally do that. So I am wondering, if D2 PvP players were upset about that.

[OShogun-1317]

They don’t need to implement it, it’s already there. D2R is a new graphical engine running on the same old code (although with some minor changes)

[OShogun-1317]

My question becomes if desynch is something that happens on the netcode of the game, or on the game logic itself.

If it is a problem with the netcode, that will probably change with the new game, since they’re implementing a completely different networking API.

[Columbus-1205]

From what I’ve been told, desynch will likely be entirely fixed as it is tied to the archaic networking.

As for invis projectiles (different than what you asked I know), I believe Blizz addressed, but uncertain how succesful.