Client-side instant response vs server confirmation

[jaunty elm]

Probably option B right?

[last gazelle]

depends on ur game

there isnt really a right answer

[jaunty elm]

Which option is best A, B or a hybrid approach? My game is a parry based combat game where low ping is probably required anyway.

[last gazelle]

ideally client prediction is better but there are tradeoffs

[jaunty elm]

wdym

regardless of animation playing wont it still feel wonky if aerial attack gives a boost only after server has confirmed it is allowed so it wont match the animation

[last gazelle]

making smooth and responsive netcode is hard and if you really dont know what you are doing id say it's generally better to make your attacks server authoritative

[jaunty elm]

i already tried both approaches but i didnt see much difference in the "responsive" one

probably just cuz of my low ping tho

[last gazelle]

if you do client predicted attacks (so animtion instant feedback)

you might get descynced hits on the client

[jaunty elm]

yeah

[last gazelle]

so you view your attack finish and then the damage is delayed

because you don't get instant feedback

you also need to sync all your combat state, like stun, cds, etc and that is additional effort

since you need to predict the activation conditions

[jaunty elm]

its just a pushover

yeah

alr thanks

[last gazelle]

but if your attacks get activated on server, you are gonna want to add some

input buffering

if you don't, you may get somewhat long delays between attacks if high ping

if you request an attack from server and need to wait for a response, your interval between attacks will be the same as your ping

also i'd recommend client hitboxes on m1s

[jaunty elm]

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everythings annoying

[last gazelle]

yeah making combat that feels good is pretty hard i'd say

[jaunty elm]

yeah alr doing that

[last gazelle]

also if you are doing client hitboxes you're prolly gonna want a hybrid approach, so if you dont receive a hit during the duration of the attack, just perform one on the server

[jaunty elm]

hm?

[last gazelle]

and id also recommend using a custom character replicator like bettereplication or chrono since you get a bit less latency on player position (due to roblox interpolation / repliction intervals)

[last gazelle]

if you are doing client hitboxes and a player is high ping, they may hit the player on their client after the attack is timed out

on the server

if this happens just perform the hit on the server

[jaunty elm]

oh sorry

yeah i alr handled taht

max range check on server using timestamps

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[jaunty elm]

anyways thanks for ur help

ill go with option b

[rugged briar]

just optimize

option b is the only option

if you need to you can use multithreading (coroutines, task.spawn, task.delay) for some parts of it

though you probably dont need to