Weapon Switching

[Wudan]

Naturally, when a client changes weapons, this information has to be sent to all clients so they can draw this particular client accordingly.

 

My Question: If a client changes weapons A LOT, can this cause any serious lag? Such as, can they fire their weapon, change weapons, fire again, and keep doing that, and everyone's pings would b crappy?

 

I don't think it's a problem, I was just curious to see if anyone had any problems with it.

[Jaii der Herr]

I do not think that it can cause any lag:

The worst case is that the server send every frame 1 or 2 bytes more than normally *g*

[Wudan]

That's what I was thinking. It'll make what I'm working on ... safer.

[razorace]

The server handles the weapon change commands anyway. There's no way to "spam" it faster than the server-based weapon switch timer. Now if you disabled the timer, then, yes, it could possibly be used to lag the game.

[Wudan]

Well, I found a way to do what I was doing that doesn't take any risks on adding lagginess - it just does what it has been doing, only my way.

 

Damn that was vague.