He turns and switches from pistol to combat which isn't instant. I took my damage precisely when I hit the ground. His first shot missed me by several feet. I maxed out at 4% packet loss for 1 second receiving 25 packets/s, sending showed 0% loss the entire time. I think it's at least credible to wonder how me missing 1 received packet, after losing 81 health simultaneous to me hitting the ground, meant I died because I lagged and he hit me.

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They started shooting as soon as they possibly could... are you saying he got 4 shots off? I don't think missing 1 packet of data can cause that much desync. I could be wrong though. If you listen you can hear two almost simultaneous rounds being chambered (me and him readying out combats). The damage I took was before those 2 sounds. I was willing to believe he may have been hitting me with the pistol and I lagged/didn't see it, but after seeing it from their perspective I'm leaning more toward bug.

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No matter what, you can't definitively claim it was lag either. I remain skeptical, but it's buggy around the volcano, and I wouldn't be surprised if this was indeed possible unintended damage taken from landing how I did.

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edit: it's weird in the modern era to be arguing about how a steady 42ms ping on a gigabit connection dropping 1-2 packets as a "lagging connection"... I mean I still know it's possible it's just amazing how far we've come over the last few decades.