[MobileVet]

I guess my naive frustration comes from crazy fps games tracking things so precisely and yet somehow Chess.com can’t handle a turn based game?! Honestly.

I do recognize that fps games utilize predictive algorithms and planning to estimate future player positions but still, turn based networking with 100ms accuracy should be a solved problem

[ajuc]

Bullet chess is almost an RTS ;) You need starcraft-like micro ;)

[pshc]

Yeah honestly I agree like it would be nice if they switched to WebRTC or UDP.

[palata]

So you need to send a few bytes of information every few seconds, but you want to spam the network with UDP packets containing those few bytes?

[sokoloff]

Sure; why not? If I can stream videos on that same network for entertainment, or play another online, multiplayer game, why not use UDP if it gives a better user experience? It's not like UDP transport of those bytes is significantly worse network-wise and certainly lighter weight than those other alternatives.

[lomase]

Every single online multiplayer game that cares about latency reimplements a subset of HTTP over UDP.

[gs17]

>reimplements a subset of HTTP over UDP.

TCP, although I like to imagine FPS games where shooting someone sends "DELETE /players/n00b HTTP/1.1" to the server.

[lomase]

Yes TCP!!!!

[WJW]

Huh, that's not what I would expect at all. If you are having custom network protocols anyway, why deal with all the overhead that even a subset of HTTP brings? You might as well make an entirely new protocol at that point.

[lomase]

Is TCP. Why everybody does it you ask?