That's like saying disabling sound in SC reduces the lag on battle.net.

lol.

0 was alot more accurate in vq3 than quakelive.. with the netcode u need something alot closer to 1 imo

but im a q3 newb so i dunno

use 1 and aim to model, dont look to fucking beams.. who cares if u wont hit sometimes, but still ur lg will be better then with 0..

and have good lg u dont need in battle aim, you need hold mouse and move left right in game.

+1

I've never heard this but then again I tend to discard retarded pieces of information.

SyncError said on the qlive forums that a value of "1" should be used if your ping is less than 80 ms.

i just asked inthe forums and gat anwere.
http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38633

yes, the anti lag code in quake live is working until ping 80, so 1 is the way to go.

but for quake3 (baseq3/osp), it should be true that 0 makes more damage. lg was always a strange weapon. but the most players dont want to see a laging shaft its annoying so they played with 0.85 or something, also over the years we got more and more better ping connections.
so its no legend, but actually the importance to play with 0 isnt there at the first sight.

"it should be true that 0 makes more damage."

You are making it sound like it makes the weapon more powerful. All it does is showing you where your beam really was (or at least close to it) in baseq3/osp, so you could aim properly with it.

Since quakelive has a lot of netcode improvements and anti lag stuff, you should use 1 as that IS where the beam really is until up to 80ms.

So what is recommended if you happen to be playing on a server that you have a connection 80ms and over to? I think I have mine set to 0.8 or 0.85 (whatever default is) right now and I've had decent luck with it, but rarely play over 60-70ms.

syncerror once wrote it somewhere but i can't remember, was smth like every 10ms extra remove 0.1 (but thats just a wild guess now)
0.8 is probably a good value :)

Fair enough. I guess I'll have to go make some changes and adapt. Hopefully this will improve my lg a bit. Still think it's lame though that the dmg is nerfed the way it is, but whatever no biggie.

"it should be true that 0 makes more damage."

hm i thought its some kind of argument, if i see the real beam i could better aim, so i do indeed more damage - if the lag shaft let me and i can control the beast.

btw default is 0.75 so i guess every value between default and 1 cant be really wrong.

Whatever you do:

"Don't cross the beams!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFM140rju4k

we came we saw we kicked its ass