Skill issue

Eons ago I managed to get all of WoW on a flash drive and could play for short stints while in Iraq (we're talking like '07) at the call centers. I'd run dungeons and i remember a person one time saying what a disciplined healer I was, only casting when it was needed. Lol no, I was spamming but my ping was steady 4 figures.

NASA you Chad.

Badass. Do you still play wow today?

People in Australia playing in any non Australian servers too. Arma with 300 ping is interesting.

If controlling the rover was a first person shooter, maybe the ping would matter more. Or less, and we'd all poop our pants.

I recall the days living in the middle of nowhere Canada, early high speed (1.5Mbps), be lucky to find something around 140. It's wasn't all that bad at the time, early 2000s and distance sure didn't help cause most servers were in the US. Definitely was better than dial up in the early early days.

Also from middle of nowhere Canada but island flavored (woo NFLD). Same fucking problems.

I get ~200ms for Dune Awakening. (Australia to NA server) Rubber banding and delayed everything is my normal, but when those I play with hit half that, oooh boy.

Quake - mid nineties before "net code", you had to lead people based on how bad your ping was.

It was a joy playing half life-counter strike when the games started accounting for ping on dial up played CS for years with mid 250s ping.

A friend and I used to play Counter Strike beta both sharing his 56k modern, it was pretty ropey at times, but still tons of fun.

I wonder what happened to that desert map

Dial up only servers were great

There was a time, at the dawn of internet gaming. When the term HPW meant something.

Gone are the days of the High Ping Warriors. Chad's of patience and virtue lost to time.

Now with modern attention deficit social media disorder, almost everyone's an LPB, and acts like it.

Ping is and always has been a skill issue.

If people in '99 could anticipate the trajectory, velocity AND ping of an opponent to accurately hit them in the face with a rocket fired a football field away in Tribes, then anyone can tolerate a match in COD under 90 ping in 2025.

Adaptation is how you get good. Adapting to something that's more than necessary makes you even better at that thing when that weight is removed. Get good with ping, and you get good at every game on the internet that uses it.

But AAA fucks better optimize their code better because you can't anticipate rubber banding bullshit. That's just bad netcode.