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As a casual player I did not notice much difference, but truthfully I did not put too much focus into testing either. The gameplay was definitely not worse either, so if the more experienced players feel like the patch is an improvement and the rest of us plebs won't notice it, sounds like it's a net positive anyway.

Even without the high precision mode the qol updates are great, nice work!

Off topic, I think it would be more fruitful to keep the discussion in the thread related to uuuz's patches rather than to speculate on the legitimacy of some of the players and their contributions.

It's probably correct that the local latencies have an effect on the hit registrations and especially to the overall smoothness of the game. Still, with a game this old I'd assume that with average or even relatively low-end PC the latencies are negligible, with the OS being the most relevant factor.

Playing a game old enough to drink over a network and focusing on the local system sound like micro-optimizations with diminishing returns to me. Sure, some tweaks might improve gameplay, but most people don't have the know-how or motivation to tinker with the system.

As the Estonian boys mentioned, one can also see whether the problem is local or not by playing on another server and seeing if the issues persist. For myself, the hit registrations and gameplay are usually more consistent on MoonGamers, it's just somewhat annoying to compensate for the high ping.

That said, I do feel like blaming some undisclosed patches/mods is speculative as well, when the real problem could also be some routers/switches working strangely or other network-related issues, considering that some people seem to be more affected than others. Might be useful to try moving the server to different providers/data centers, but that is quite an effort and tuia is running the server on his own dime even as is. I certainly wouldn't bother