It's simple. The player behind you benefits from the slower ping, regardless of who has the slower ping. In your example Redbull is behind you with a slower ping and he benefits. If you get behind him then you benefit from his slower ping and he sees you making "impossible" shots.
In other words, the offensive fighter gets the advantage of the lag and lag is only a disadvantage to the defensive fighter because he can't trust what he sees. The bandit behind you has a better shot angle that he appears to have.
That's what we mean when we say "objects in the rear view mirror are closer than they appear". The solution is to allow for it.
He was actually coming at me somewhat head to head although his nose pointed off to an angle where he could not get guns on me. I moved in a way to be below and to the right of him to be sure he couldn't. We were very slow dog fighting and had already merged a few times. He shot me when he was next to me as we passed, never having guns on me at any time earlier and way past any point of possibly hitting me.
I don't have the film or pics any more, but based on my careful and multiple times reviewing this film and screenshots all of which I posted, I became convinced that the longer ping pilot has a material advantage. I really didn't like fighting him after that, and explained why, as he had benefited from this apparent advantage multiple times before I realized what was happening.
Eventually we did fight when Netflix wasn't running and all seemed normal again. At no time did he warp. He was just materially lagged and it was very noticeable and obviously, to me, advantageous to him. At least that's what I concluded at the time. Maybe I'm wrong though since I don't yet understand it.
How would your explanation go with the above head to head type of position and shot? We never had guns on each other, based on my point of view and my film, yet he got me. So apparently, on his PC, he saw a position I never came close to seeing.
Since neither one of us was behind the other, it seems his higher ping won out over my lower one, by creating a view only he saw.
I created a thread about all this at the time, but never got a clear explanation other than what my pictures and film so obviously showed.. that he had no shot, yet shot me down due to his longer ping/lag
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The way it felt to me is he could tell what I was doing before I could see what he was doing... and he therefore had shots I never saw, but felt the effects of, unfortunately.
PS: This is not to pick on Redbull, as he is just one example of what I have also seen, on occasion, with other pilots that seem to have a greater ping/lag.
I would just like to understand it better instead of guessing or going based on what I think I saw... but as I said earlier maybe I should just drop it since there is nothing I can do about it.
