During 9 months, I play this game with standard frog ADSL connection, which is :

• ping between 50ms and 90ms.
• download bandwidth of 12Mbps
• upload bandwidth of 0.8Mbps

Wired ethernet and no wifi activated (exlusive internet).

I did have a lot of ping spikes (like +400ms during 3 seconds and multiple times per game).

On top of that, game wasn't always smooth. In some games, I could not react at all when the enemy was peeking. It's like the enemy was prefering with wallhack (which obviously was not the case 99% of the time). I had to shoulder peek or wide swing every time, never taking direct lines (even broken ones) and pray that the surprise effect will be enough.

In some games, it did work just fine, but it wasn't the majority of my games.

It's what I called the "desync" feeling. Not even sure if there is a real technical issue behind this word... I don't think so.

Since 3 weeks, I got fiber connection :

• ping between 20ms and 40ms
• download bandwidth of 380Mbps
• upload bandwidth of 150Mbps (at least)

This is not the same game !

I don't have the desync feeling anymore, no more ping spikes, I manage to do insane flicks which never succeeded before (because of ping I presume). My game is the same than Twitch streams.

My conclusion is that the game is heavily dependant of network conditions.

The game seems to be really harder with ping above 40ms and low upload bandwidth. Maybe there is a desync issue which is occuring after a ping spike. I don't know.

I wanted to share my experience. If you got poor networkd conditions and you don't understand how you've been rekt that hard in some games, you may experience the same issue than me. You still can improve and win though.

Now, I don't have any more excuse and I'm fine with that. I never experience "unfair" death anymore.