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BYOND Username: The Gorog
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When 2 people are fighting and manage to simultaniously aggressive grab one another at the same time, it will create a huge amount near game freezing lag.
Im guessing this is because they are trying to pull each other onto their own tile, but both do this at the same time.
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Grabbing in general appears to create game-breaking lag. I remember fucking around with grab intent with Roman one time to make a fuckton of steps occur at once when we tried moving towards each other with grab intent, or something. Sadly I can't remember the details, but we realized that it was almost definitely the source of lagspikes.
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I dont think it does this when both are doing the soft grab, but I would rather not test it out.
Also I should change "game freezing" to "server freezing" lag. Its not just client side. Seen people immediately ask for lag over the radio after this happend.
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I can confirm this a thing that indeed happens, much like when two people slipped over the same tile repeatedly with old space lube. Perhaps related to that?