Spiral Knights - Guide For High Ping Players

Guide For High Ping Players

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Fri, 06/07/2013 - 23:46

Thowardz

First,I'm player who always play with "Red Ping Bar" Every time.I never get into yellow bar too. Really! I Try too decrease my ping but failed.So I have to stick with this terrible ping.

I see there is no thread about teaching high ping player to play Lockdown Yet .So I make this one and hope everyone will help too....

~~~Things You Should Know First ~~~
- Practice makes perfect! (Troupe-Forums)
- Your screen are showing the past. (Thowardz)
- Your action take half your ping time to get into the server.
Such as attack,walking,boost/invisible/shield,healing on Heal Pad Etc. (Klipik-Forum , Thowardz)
- You just have to know how to control your latency and take advantage of it (Feller)
- Understand the timing, and lead your attacks. (Rogue-Wolf)
- Dodging constantly helps you stay alive (Leekcoco)
- Work with someone, rather than roll alone. Going solo with high latency makes you an easier target. (Rogue-Wolf)

~~~About Weapon Or Class~~~
- Gunning is tricky,You have to aim enemy carefully. You need to guess where the target move and think how fast your bullet go. And then you have high ping. make it harder because you can only see the past. If you not good at gun don't use it as primary weapon (Erlandr , Thowardz)
- Try and make someone follow you in a predictable way so that you have an easier time guessing and "aiming" if you want to gun with high latency (Leekcoco)
- Fast guns can be useless, Instead of Valiance or Alchemers, Use Polaris or Biohazard (Feller)
- Slow swords can work better. It's easier to hits with and less hits to kill. Because they have high damage and wide swing.It's will be your best friend. (Troupe-Forums , Feller , Thowardz)
- If you're not doing well in an aggressive role, you should look into going with a support role (such as a bomber). Less effort on your end, and you'll help your team mates. (Rogue-Wolf)
- Try to avoid evading, instead, offensive action is your best choice of defense (Stelli)

Everyone please tell other Stretegy or Tips-n-Tricks.
I'm not sure that I have edit my thread correctly. so everyone can tell me what I did wrong

Thanks To....
Erlandr
Troupe-Forums
Klipik-Forum
Feller
Stelli
Leekcoco
Rogue-Wolf
.........................(Searching For More Player...)
For Helping This Thread

And I'm Didn't Know All these Stretegy or Tips-n-Tricks Alone... Most of them are from other people. Then I add them...

Sat, 06/08/2013 - 00:41

Kimahsonite

Why Would You Capitalise

Why Would You Capitalise Every Single Word?

There's no specific 'Stretegy Or Tips-n-Tricks' for high ping players, you just have to guess where opponents are gonna strike milliseconds before they actually hit you so you can counter/dodge them.

Sat, 06/08/2013 - 00:45

Erlandr

Don't play gunner

I've tried it myself and its a whole nother level of difficult.

Here's a vid of a lagger trying to play guns http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nezmQXhbwU

so yeah. don't play gunner as your primary loadout

Sat, 06/08/2013 - 03:34

Thowardz

@Kimahsonite 1.About asking

@Kimahsonite
1.About asking why I'm type like this
Answer: Um.... I just think it will be easier to read. I will fix it if you want
2.About there's no specific stretegy for high ping players
Answer: How about we make one? So high ping player will not feel like "Why I'm so bad at this? I gotta go play other game. not this one"

@Erlandr
Thank you Erlandr :)

Sat, 06/08/2013 - 07:40

Troupe-Forums

least readable thread in this forum

as for playing with a high ping:

Don't rely on guns (except for maybe a polaris)
slow swords work better - easier to get hits with and less hits to kill

I might add more if I remember

Sat, 06/08/2013 - 07:47

Klipik-Forum

High ping players can make other people in the game lag? That's good information, thanks.

As you've said, the most important thing to remember when playing with high ping is that what you are seeing has already happened, and you have to predict where the enemy will be in [half your ping time] in order to hit them. I say half your ping time because that's how long it takes your action to get to the server, which is where everything happens.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 07:40

Our-Little-Ajo

Is quite simple

1.- fast guns a are useless, instead of valiance or alchemers, use Polaris or biohazard.
2.- wide range swords are your best friend
3.- with 2 bars your avatar is 2 - 3 bodys ahead from the real position (2 secs delay).
4.- be careful of AT users, they usually hit from 10 mtrs.

Avoid caping, opponents will always hit first because of latency.

Tue, 06/11/2013 - 03:36

Thowardz

Thank you

@Troupe-Forums, Klipik-Forum And Feller
Thank You So Much!

But Now I'm Not Sure That I Have Edit My Thread Correctly.
So Everyone Can Tell Me What I Did Wrong...

Tue, 06/11/2013 - 04:19

Stelli

Try to avoid evading,

Try to avoid evading, instead, offensive action is your best choice of defense.

I got a new dedicated line, with much improvement, I'm getting 250 ping for US and 400+ for EU.

Fml, most of the time you'll be like a sitting duck, especially when you are capping, by the time u see some striker boosting towards you, even if you evade, it will be too late; as you are viewing the past.

Tue, 06/11/2013 - 04:25

Leekcoco

I gun with high ping, and

I gun with high ping, and it's not impossible. Yeah, everything sucks in general. Getting hit from 10 tiles away, dying as soon as a player with high ASI shows their forehead, weapon switches not registering . . . Though most of the time I swear people just walk into my bullets, the only thing you can do is try and make someone follow you in a predictable way so that you have an easier time guessing and "aiming" if you want to gun with high latency. Dodging constantly helps you stay alive, since you can't trust what you see.

Tue, 06/11/2013 - 16:36

#10

Our-Little-Ajo

Just to clean your good thread

Remove this crap

*So High Ping Player Can Finally Play Like Other Good Ping Player*

Mitezuss
Danyx
Kattamon

They all have the same latency I do, and they have nothing to envy 4 bars players, even when we have a TITANIC disadvantage.

As far as I know, Danyx have the second biggest damage after me in LD, in a non-fixed match. We both play with 250ms - 400ms.

You just have to know how to control your latency and take advantage of it, remove AT (Just to prevent your balls drop down your pants to the floor), and start to predict opponent movements.

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 01:39

#11

Rogue-Wolf

...

Feller, please stop talking about high latency. 2 bars is not a 2 second delay. 2 seconds is 2000ms. You might as well not do anything with latency that high.

Blueflood, as an Australian player, with pretty mediocre Internet, I have an average latency of 700ms+. Dodging is nigh on impossible, simply because you take damage from people you don't even see yet. With that in mind, dodging a Polaris is still relatively easy; which is why I've never understood why people suck at it so much.

Now that all that's over...
- Capitalizing every word makes it more difficult to read; not easier. Fix that.

- Remove the part about "if you have high ping, you'll make others lag". That's not helping. It's discouraging people from playing.

- Remove the "AT" from where you say to watch out for others. AT makes them a bit better, but the issue is not in AT. It's in your latency. Say it's difficult to dodge, and you should really keep moving to confuse your opponent.

- Saying "avoid capping" is just plain wrong. Worse still, you mention "they'll get the first hit", implying you shouldn't try to fight either. Again, you're discouraging.
___

Regardless, the only tips you can really give to someone with high ping, is that they need to understand it.
- Understand the timing, and lead your attacks.

- Work with someone, rather than roll alone. Going solo with high latency makes you an easier target.

- If you're not doing well in an aggressive role, you should look into going with a support role (such as a bomber). Less effort on your end, and you'll help your team mates.

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 03:08

#12

Thowardz

Thank you so much everyone

@Leekcoco
Thank you for your gunning information!

@Feller
Ok, I Removed that one now

@Rogue-Wolf
I did fix and add what you said now.

I'm not sure That I should Put My LD video here? I'm Still 3* Knight Elite And Play As Guardian

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 03:18

#13

Stelli

well, either move to the US,

well, either move to the US, or hope that ooo one day will add an Asia Pacific Region Server.

It makes a lot of sense, as we have players from aussie, malaysia, vietnam, who dont read or write chinese, making us impossible to join the Taiwan/Hong Kong server.

I did try the Taiwan/Hong Kong server once (Since I live in Hong Kong), and tbh with full bar, it feels like playing a different game..

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 05:51

#14

Our-Little-Ajo

Who da hell is this blueflood??

And since when having 1-2 bars is an advantage...

Gtfo noob.

Thu, 06/13/2013 - 01:39

#15

Thowardz

Um....

@stelli
All I have to do is hope OOO will add Asian server. Because I can't to any country

Thu, 06/13/2013 - 03:20

#16

Troupe-Forums

Best Tip There Is

Practice.

When I first started playing lockdown, 6k damage was a good for me. Now I can hit over 10k without trying most games. Practice makes perfect!

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 16:46

#17

Kylianblaze

psychic

hmm the red zone player must be a really talented clairevoyant O___o; i almost give up playing with this latency

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 21:08

#18

Good-Spirit

This is a pretty decent guide, even for decent ping players fighting those with epic ping (ex: 100 ping vs 10 ping). The slight difference in reaction time and taking it into account are pretty vital, and it scales with the ping difference. For USA players it's a good thing to keep in mind when you visit EU or the other way around.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 21:57

#19

Theirillusion

Just gonna leave this here

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 22:21

#20

Good-Spirit

Wow I had no idea. Pretty sure that was posted before I even started playing. Good to know for sure. It's amazing what a difference 50ms makes in this case.

Tue, 07/23/2019 - 08:13

#21

Tpen-Five-Fun

Srry for necro

"You just have to know how to control your latency and take advantage of it"

Can someone explain this?

I've been playing for years, there's no point of trying...

Sat, 07/27/2019 - 14:28

#22

Top-Platinum

Guide For High Ping

Guide For High Ping Players

~~~Things You Should Know First ~~~

- Don't play at all. Play another game buddy.