the no-lag gameplay is actually hard for me to get used too!
You're going to find two things happening... you're going to get more kills as you adjust, but more importantly, you might start dying *more* as your lag comes into a more appropriate line.
Throughout the years I've followed the "smoothing" code - I can pretty much tell when I'm fighting someone with higher lag as I'll be taking hits where I usually don't.
From my perceptions, this smoothing process has also slightly increased over the years, resulting in much less overall warping and serious lag effects at the trade off of a slightly larger window of varying connections. For example, 7-8 years ago I did a little "lag" test where I flew behind various people at 100 yds and asked what range they were seeing me in their 6 view. (the famous ghost plane in Lushe's (?) lag demo vid).
Back then connections had a more significant impact than they do now, but the effect is and will always be present.
This "lag" issue becomes more critical for the "better" players because often it's about timinig, right?
Let me know how it goes - especially if you go to the DA with some people you've gone with before.