Network latency can significantly impact user experience in First-Person Shooter (FPS) games, which can cause the game to feel unresponsive and sluggish. To combat network latency issues, various latency compensation techniques have been developed. Despite the abundance of these techniques and their implementations in popular FPS games, their performance and impact on mitigating network latency have not been scientifically investigated. For our project, we implemented several latency compensation techniques and evaluated the impact of time warp and latency exposure on player performance and quality of experience in an open-source FPS game. Our results show that time warp is able to significantly reduce the effects of latency on player performance and quality of experience, while the effectiveness of latency exposure varies with the actual latency values.

• 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

• Young, Sitsanok
• Xu, Yihong
• Klevanski, Ivan
• Mitchell, Alexander

Subject

• Innovation
• Computing
• Project-Based Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 105096
• E-project-042523-215326

Palavra-chave

• Latency Compensation
• First Person Shooter
• Multiplayer
• Authoritative Server
• First Person Science
• Latency

Advisor

• Claypool, Mark L.

Year

• 2023

Sponsor

• NVIDIA Corporation

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• Not Specified

Date created

• 2023-04-25

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Interactive Media & Game Development
• Computer Science

Source

• E-project-042523-215326

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Última modificação

• 2024-09-09