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[Carter Peterson]

You can’t talk about netcode without first nailing the fundamental trade-off that birthed client-side prediction in the first place: latency invisibility versus authoritative correctness. The classic model works like this—the client immediately simulates your input locally so your movement feels instant, while the server runs the authoritative simulation and sends back state snapshots. The problem is those two diverge, which is exactly where reconciliation comes in. The client maintains a queue of unacknowledged inputs and, whenever it receives an acknowledgment for the last-processed server tick, it re-sends every input after that point and re-simulates from the authoritative state.

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[Carter Peterson]

Solid points raised, but you have to factor in real world usage: Memorizing pixel lineups for sky smokes and one-way flashes separates disciplined tacticians from casuals.

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"144Hz is baseline, 360Hz is reflex, 540Hz is pure instinct."

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