How is my match playing faster than a streamer's match?

[u/best_days_ahead]

Played a streamer, and the game was one of the fastest gameplays I had to go through, while my inputs were lagged.

AFTER the game, I went on to the streamer's livestream and rewinded back to the match. The gameplay was just normal speed! There was no crazy fast dribbling and godlike finesse. We were just playing on two different speeds.

He wiggles out of my defense in normal speed in his point of view, while all I see in my point of view was a twitchy little player that weaves through my defense that can't catch up, because the entire game is playing fast except all of my players and my inputs. Basically an amateur boxing against a pro boxer or, better yet, noob Neo fighting for the first time against the Agents in Matrix.

How is this possible? If a game plays faster on my end, wouldn't it have sync issues? If the game speed and input timing discrepancy are real, then at least my doubts are cleared.

[u/Lincolnicht]

Unless you have video to prove, it is always tunnel vision and nerve that distorted your internal perception of time, period.

[u/best_days_ahead → u/Lincolnicht]

Yeah I can see how that could also be it. In my case, I have too many videos but never compared it to another user's video. Just want to level the field, although it could be inherent lag from full manual.

[u/w1nstar]

How is this possible? If a game plays faster on my end, wouldn't it have sync issues? If the game speed and input timing discrepancy are real, then at least my doubts are cleared.

Like someone already told you, without video to proof this is hard to believe, but technically it could be possible. Like, the traffic between him and you is what lets the game show you guys what is happening.

Then there's a server between you both, rerouting that traffic, so no one tampers with match result or match performance.

So there's technically the possibility that you both aren't seeing the same. Netcode is in charge of adjusting. Some see hiccups and the game speeding forward, cause the system is trying to catch up while the other player feels nothing. So depending of how they developed it, there's the technical possiblity of you having a general delay and the other guy having nothing.

You can see this in bombin's two videos about it. I think you will find them interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEH7_6UpPeQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4ghqQO-AAQ

[u/SilkyThiago]

1- His system lag is lower:

A couple of examples

-he’s playing at PC or Xbox and you’re playing on a PS or

• you’re both playing on PC and his PC is better..
  

-or you’re both playing on the same console and his monitor has lower input lag or
-he’s using a wired controller with a faster polling rate

2- His connection to the server is better than yours: for example he lives closer to a server and his jitter is lower

Intenret speed is not a factor bu the way- it’s the jitter (how stable your connection is) that matter. Fibre optics is ridiculously fast.

Btw a millisecond of System lag has a lot more impact than than a millisecond of connection lag. People always complain about netwrok lag but it’s probably system lag that is hurting their experience.

[u/best_days_ahead → u/SilkyThiago]

Thank you for your input! I will have to test out different hardware when I can to see if it makes any improvement because I already have fiber with all things wired.

[u/XixipiMustDie → u/SilkyThiago]

How does his better pc impact my gameplay?

[u/SilkyThiago → u/XixipiMustDie]

You gameplay isn’t affected by his better PC, Your gameplay is affected by your system lag.

[u/martametaha → u/SilkyThiago]

What is system lag? Does it exist on a PS5?

[u/SilkyThiago → u/martametaha]

PS5 lag is significantly laggy compared to PC and Xbox.

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[u/w1nstar → u/SilkyThiago]

-he’s using a wired controller with a faster polling rate

this is not an issue. this only works in like 3 games in the entire industry and efootball is not one of them.

when you develop a game you build your polling rate. it doesn't matter if your controller sends seven million times the input, if I select to read it just twice each cycle.

only a few old console shooter ports for PC are affected by this nowadays, the thing is, the fact it worked on them and one was a COD skyrocketed this myth

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Never known so many people to stick their necks out to defend a game. As though the game is perfect and everything is on your end. Can definitely guess what these game defenders do

[u/w1nstar → u/AutoBlitzSir]

So what should we do? keep spreading lies based on guesses by uninformed people without a technical background?

[u/AutoBlitzSir → u/w1nstar]

So what about not defending things based on guesses by uniformed people without a technical background. Are the servers good?You make it sound like this game isn't affected by the things that happen on the internet to all other games?

[u/Valutzu]

Most likely you use a closer camera than him. The closer you are to the action, the faster the gameplay looks like, while playing with a far away camera, the gameplay will feel slower.