Unfortunately, I found it incomprehensible when just visiting the site.

Also, when there's nobody else in the matchmaking queue, I can't start a game, and there's no obvious video that shows me what I'm supposed to expect or how to play.

Clearly, there's lots of interesting graphic design and animati…

@undefined I see. My general idea was to give just send a command to the server and have it deal with it. After reading your post I think that’s it’s probably better to just not predict anything.

Kylotan said:

I always recommend this video, which covers many of the concepts above:

3 other things to consider:

Mirror isn't that great, Make sure it's not doing dumb stuff, make sure you're using the right transport, etc.

You don't need to throw away out of order messages, only those that arrive too…

Clonkex said:
since the player could be a long way ahead of the server

Yeah, there needs to be some amount of distance that you just don't interpolate, but instead “snap” to.

Clonkex said:
I will of course report my findings

Please do! We look forward to it.

Do it twice or three times and you're done for.

That sounds wrong to me. Sweeping a few capsules through some collision geometry shouldn't take any perceptible time. Have you profiled this, and seen what's going on? My guess is that it's doing a whole lot more work than necessary, and perhaps there'…