What exactly is a lag switch? (Destiny)

by uberfoop , Seattle-ish, Thursday, July 30, 2015, 21:51 (3640 days ago) @ DreadPirateWes
edited by uberfoop, Thursday, July 30, 2015, 22:10

It's a switch on your upstream network traffic. This allows you to continue receiving updates from the host, so that you can still shoot people smoothly on your end, but not send updates about yourself to everyone else. When the lag switch turns off and re-sync occurs, game networking models will often respect the actions that were taken by the lag-switcher during the lag, while causing them to be an extreme rubberband in everyone else's view.

So you can do things like turn on the switch, step into the battlefield and get some shots off, and turn off the switch so that your enemy is dead by the time that their console is even told that they're getting shot at.