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Now lets look at the evolution of action games starting with Doom, Quake and Unreal. In the era of action games, the limitations of peer-to-peer lockstep became apparent in Doom, which despite playing well over the LAN played terribly over the internet for typical users:. The problem of course was that Doom was designed for networking over LAN only, and used the peer-to-peer lockstep model described previously for RTS games. Each turn player inputs key presses etc. In other words, before you could turn, move or shoot you had to wait for the inputs from the most lagged modem player.
In order to move beyond the LAN and the well connected elite at university networks and large companies, it was necessary to change the model. There was no longer any need for the game to be deterministic across all machines, because the game really only existed on the server. Each client effectively acted as a dumb terminal showing an approximation of the game as it played out on the server.
In response the server updates the state of your character in the world and replies with a packet containing the state of your character and other players near you. All the client has to do is interpolate between these updates to provide the illusion of smooth movement and BAM you have a networked game.
This was a great step forward. The quality of the game experience now depended on the connection between the client and the server instead of the most lagged peer in the game.
Ok, I made a bad call. I'm addressing it now. In the original Quake you felt the latency between your computer and the server. Press fire and you wait for that same delay before shooting. So how exactly do modern FPS games remove the latency on your own actions in multiplayer? So now in order to remove the latency, the client runs more code than it previously did.
It is no longer a dumb terminal sending inputs to the server and interpolating between state sent back. Instead it is able to predict the movement of your character locally and immediately in response to your input, running a subset of the game code for your player character on the client machine. Now as soon as you press forward, there is no wait for a round trip between client and server - your character start moving forward right away.
The difficulty is in applying the correction back from the server to resolve cases when the client and server disagree about where the player character should be and what it is doing. Now at this point you might wonder. Hey, if you are running code on the client - why not just make the client authoritative over their player character?
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