[Visual77]

Hi. I need a forumula that retrives the exact player ping that would show on the scoreboard. This is for silently changing a ping maskers ping on the scoreboard.

There was supposley a stock for this from the smlib project (Client_GetFakePing), although that stock doesn't seem to work anymore.

GetEntProp(GetPlayerResourceEntity(), Prop_Send, "m_iPing", _, client);

This piece of code will retrive the scoreboard ping, however when a player is ping masking this willl report either 1 or 5ms at all times.

Therefor, I need a formula that caluclates the score-board ping, so I can set the correct m_iPing value on players that are ping-masking. Anyone who can shed some light on this?

Here's a log showing that Client_GetFakePing isn't working when someone is pingmasking.
Example.

int ResEntity = GetPlayerResourceEntity();

if (ResEntity != -1)
{
	PrintToChatAll("Scoreboard ping %d, GetFakePing: %d", GetEntProp(GetPlayerResourceEntity(), Prop_Send, "m_iPing", _, client), Client_GetFakePing(client, true));
}

cl_cmdrate -100 in console.
Result: Scoreboard ping 5, GetFakePing: 5

[pride95]

PHP Code:


stock int GetLatency(int Client)
{
    float Ping = 1000.0 * GetClientLatency(Client, NetFlow_Both);    
    return RoundToNearest(Ping);
} 


[Visual77]

That will only give me the player latency. Player latency != Scoreboard player ping.

See the difference when I'm not pingmasking (cl_cmdrate 100).

float latency = GetClientLatency(client, NetFlow_Outgoing); 
PrintToChatAll("Scoreboard ping %d, Player latency: %d", GetEntProp(GetPlayerResourceEntity(),Prop_Send, "m_iPing", _, client), RoundFloat(latency * 1000.0));

Result: Scoreboard ping 14, Player latency: 67 (probably in ms)

[Visual77]

Lol, turns out cl_cmdrate +100 doesn't work to mask ping in L4D2 anymore. cl_cmdrate +100 will not decrease scoreboard ping. And cl_cmdrate -100 results in cl_cmdrate 10.

However, setting your cl_cmdrate lower than 30 (10-20) = legitimate ping masking as cl_cmdrate 10 will report 5ms on the scoreboard at all times.
"cl_cmdrate" = "10" ( def. "30" ) min. 10.000000 max. 100.000000
archive user
- Max number of command packets sent to server per second

I seriosly think Valve has messed up badly this time, there's no point trying to solve it when they're allowed to pingmask without hacks. Bin this thread.

[Mehis]

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/sou...ource.cpp#L109

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/sou.../util.cpp#L749

[Visual77]

Originally Posted by Mehis https://github.com/ValveSoftware/sou...ource.cpp#L109 https://github.com/ValveSoftware/sou.../util.cpp#L749

That's the exact same formula that the smlib stock is using. (Client_GetFakePing)
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bc...ib/clients.inc

The return value is 5 when a player masks their ping with cl_cmdrate 10, thus this is useless.

[midnight9]

Would it not be easier to block players from setting cl_cmdrate below 30?

[Visual77]

Originally Posted by midnight9 Would it not be easier to block players from setting cl_cmdrate below 30?

Edit, you're right. I was running stock default cvars, that's why.


// 30 tick settings.
sm_cvar sv_maxrate 30000
sm_cvar sv_minrate 30000
sm_cvar sv_minupdaterate 30
sm_cvar sv_maxupdaterate 30
sm_cvar sv_mincmdrate 30
sm_cvar sv_maxcmdrate 30 (the max rate is clamped in l4d2 to cl_cmdrate 40 on the client, so setting this to 100 doesn't work on the client.
(The real value is 100.000 but the server has temporarily restricted it to 40.000