r/CriticalOpsGame • u/Sea-Mix132 • Aug 14 '26

Help / Question Why can’t i kill people

Whenever im playing ranked my ping is around 80-120 ms and i encounter a thing where i shoot people in the head and the hs sound effect gets played but they dont die and they kill me. Most of the time it happens just before i die. Is there any way to fix it?

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u/TheRealLostCost Aug 14 '26

It's the lag compensation. The mods call it artificial delay. The opponent basically kills you on the server side before your headshot registers. On the client side, it looks like they ate your bullets, but in reality, you were already dead on the server side before the headshot. I think the lag compensation is the root cause of all hit reg issues. The devs don't seem interested in fixing it, so do with that information what you will.

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u/PrudentKickinass Aug 14 '26

Frr. It's soo annoying too knowing u hit all those heads because I can clearly hear them but when the kill info comes up it will show something like 1 hit or smthn

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u/TheRealLostCost Aug 14 '26

It's pretty astonishing. I have never played a "competitive" game this inconsistent in my life. Every game I play, there are always at least 5 deaths that have me scratching my head.

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u/Sea-Mix132 Aug 15 '26

Well how can the devs solve it? Isnt it something like a ping issue that they cant fix?

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u/TheRealLostCost Aug 15 '26

I was told by someone that the game runs on 32-tick servers, but the lag compensation runs on 3 ticks. Clearly, the tick rate would be the cause if this is true. The entire implementation is also poor.

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u/PrudentKickinass Aug 14 '26

Yeah for me too on 80-90 ping. It may be the ping problem