Peeker’s advantage- the performance advantage that the player peeking around the corner has over the player defending the corner in FPS games- is believed to be caused by network latency. However, latency’s impact on peeker’s advantage has not been extensively studied. This paper examines the effect of latency and peeker’s distance from the corner on peeker’s advantage through a 24-person user study conducted using an open-source FPS game: First Person Science. One of three latencies and distances were assigned to the players for each game randomly. The analysis of the hits, wins, accuracy, and time-to-damage data shows that peeker’s advantage is more affected by the defender’s latency than the peeker’s latency, and the optimal distance does not vary with latency.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Tang, Dexuan
• Chen, Zesheng
• Mettler, Colin

Subject

• Innovation
• Computing
• Project-Based Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 95236
• E-project-032423-151936

Keyword

• Player performance
• Games
• First Person Shooter Games
• User study
• Peeker's Advantage
• Network Latency

Advisor

• Claypool, Mark L.

Year

• 2023

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• Not Specified

Date created

• 2023-03-24

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Source

• E-project-032423-151936

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-04-14