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Lag = higher placement?

Kelvynn·12/5/2019, 12:15:28 AM·1 votes·754 views

I have noticed something disturbing in my 1 month of playing TFT. At first I thought I was being paranoid, but this keeps happening time after time, 100% of the time. It can't just be pure RNG.

I have an excellent internet connection (gigabit cable) and virtually no lag. And every time I get to the endgame in TFT, my fight always finishes before another in the same round. When I and another player are about to be eliminated, my fight always, ALWAYS, 100% of the time, ends first and I get placed lower than the other guy who gets eliminated in the very same round. No matter how long my fight is. Even if it ends up in a Vlad or Olaf duel that goes on after the speed up time, and I'm watching the other fight instead of mine and see that it's not nearly as long - my fight always registers as completed first, and I get eliminated before the other guy.

The fights are not completely 'in real time'. It becomes obvious when you get into the top 3 and see all 3 players fighting each other at the very same time. Your opponent is 'not here' half of the time - he is fighting the third guy at the very same time, and you can watch the third guy fighting him if you switch to the third guy. While another copy of his team is fighting you.

I don't understand how exactly all that works. But I've scored a disturbing number of 3rd places, and in a whole lot of them the 2nd place player and me got eliminated in the very same round, and my fight ALWAYS ended first. My only explanation is that my fight is processed faster by the server because I have less lag than the other players.

What the hell is going on? Does lagging help staying alive longer and getting placed higher?? That would be crazy.

3 Comments

athame12/5/2019, 12:52:51 AM1 votes

That's you clearly not understanding the mechanics of TFT. If you have an odd number of players, the game will duplicate a random players army, and assign it to be your opponent (If you are to be fighting the mysterious person whose not there) rather than just giving a "buy".

Kelvynn12/5/2019, 5:05:05 PM1 votes

Just had a very close game where 3 people were eliminated in the same round. When I saw myself and 2 others at less than 10 hp, I already knew what would happen. And it happened. Again.

Can anybody explain why this keeps happening? Perhaps I'm missing some important mechanic that has nothing to do with the actual TFT but everything to do with the way the fights are selected and run?

Network latency affecting the order in which the results are processed would be an extremely bad design.