annukka_p

I play browser shooters on my lunch break, which means hostile office wifi and a work laptop. Dust Arena held up better than most native games I have tried on that connection. The client renders remote players a fraction of a second in the past, and you can feel the difference: nobody teleports, nobody rubber-bands, shots land where the crosshair says. Pickup weapons on the map make a clever pressure system. The shotgun point near the orange spawn turns into a small war every twenty seconds because everyone knows when it comes back, and medkits do the same for the middle lane. Rounds run one minute, which fits a lunch break in a way thirty-minute matches never will. The announcer voice made my colleague look over the partition, so I am glad mute is one keypress. I would like a Nordic server region, since 60 ms from Helsinki is playable and 120 would not be. If the developer streams the next map build, I will watch it.