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by qwertyuiop924 3455 days ago
While modems may be dead and buried, Carmack's response regarding wallhacks to reading ESR's essay "The Case of the Quake Cheats" in '99 still applies:

>With a sub-100 msec ping and extremely steady latency, it would be possible to force a synchronous update with no extra information at all, but in the world of 200-400 msec latency [and] low bandwidth modems, it just plain wouldn't work.