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Most likely not. To make cross platform multiplayer possible, they practically have to enforce the same physics timesteps on all platforms.

What most people perceive as a different feel is the input to display latency. On a TV with a controller that can easily be 4x higher than with a mouse on a PC screen.

In the early days, Microsoft did a famous study of how strongly input latency affects the way how people use office software. If I recall correction, 50ms in additional latency would lead to significantly less exploratory behavior.

And I think we all know that intuitively from the web. When a bloated newspaper site needs 5 seconds to load, you start to consciously consider if you really want to click that link, as opposed to just checking out everything slightly related on Wikipedia.

parent fxtentacle 6 years ago

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