I know this problem, I'm on my third server hosting provider and have been talking to other server admins about their respective hosting providers. Not sure how it works on console but on PC there's an issue with most popular dedicated server providers (for renting) either refusing to acknowledge that Wreckfest hosting is very demanding on CPU, or outright extorting customers into paying extra for "premium" CPU priority by not offering adequate and continuous CPU performance for "base" services. I don't know if it's even possible to prevent this via clever netcode. This is exactly what happens when my connection is having a lag spice at the exact moment when I pass someone from my Discord so for me it looks like a clean pass but in Discord they tell me I just punted them off the track. One thig I forgot to mention is, in Wreckfest this whole lag / desync thing can lead to situations where a laggy player 1 passes another player 2, on player 1's screen it looks like a clean pass without contact but on player 2's screen it looks like player 2's car is getting launched into space by player 1's car which acts like a 200 ton diesel-electric locomotive. It looks as if they are magically catapulting ahead while in reality, they were ahead all along. I know there is one player who drives top 50 laptimes most of the time and their suspension seems to work differently than everyone else's, and when an update drops they drive slower than average laptimes for a couple weeks and their supsension suddenly works normally so one might stick out their neck and say "that player's cheats have stopped working because of the update" but again, it's not solid enough evidence.Ĭlick to expand.That's an unfortunate reality in most games, laggy players with potato internet have the advantage that other players don't see where they are, instead other players only see where they were. it's just not solid enough evidence to assume cheating. Something I'd like to add is, on PC/Steam I've seen players consistently driving very fast laptimes while phasing their whole car through solid obstacles or phasing their wheels through bumps and the suspension didn't compress. Not really an issue when you compare it to, let's say, CS:GO on PC where reputable veteran players estimate around 10% to 15% of the playerbase is cheating.
What does all this mean for Wreckfest? I don't know but I'd be surprised if even 0.5% of PC players were cheating (including elaborate ways to gain advantages through deliberately induced lag or bizarre glitches nobody knows about), and naturally way, way less on consoles. If there is a way to gain an advantage through any form of lag, players will find a way to induce that exact form of lag. Another problem for any platform is deliberately inducing lag. Especially in the upper price range it is common to limit the number of subscribers and to offer frequent update so the cheat software never gets detected. If there is a demand / willingness to pay for cheats, then there are cheat developers ready to put in the work to circumvent even the most sophisticated anti-cheat. Besides all the free, non-commercial cheats there are subscription-based cheats that cost anywhere from 10 to 200 USD per month. Meaning, some people pay money for actual hardware to cheat online. Also, even on standard non-modified consoles there's players who run hardware-based cheats / "controller mods" (I admit I don't know if these can be advantageous in a racing game). It's true that consoles have a high level of safety against cheating but, on a very small scale, there's a market for tampered consoles. Sony contracted Denuvo Anti-Cheat for the PS5 because not even consoles are safe. On the other hand, looking at the whole issue of multiplayer cheating and not just one particular game, there is massive amounts of cheating these days.
Click to expand.On one hand I agree this is likely just an extreme case of desync due to lag or the host momentarily "running out of CPU" so for a given length of time the host machine is unable to verify player position, direction and velocity and then everything sort of rubberbands all over the place when the host machine tries to sort it all out again.
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