ВСЕ ИНПУТ ЛАГ ТЕРМИНЫ

All terms related to anomaly input lag that may be confusing to a beginner.

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• Gameplay Form (Playstyle State) — the core visual and tactile feel of your gameplay. Typically, two main forms are identified: "Phantom" and "Sword". However, the anomalous input lag issue is so extensive and its manifestations so unique that the symptoms of different forms can overlap.

• Phantom — one of the primary gameplay forms caused by input lag. It features a "softer" visual image, muffled audio, a dampened sensation of bullet impact, and generally "soft" hit registration. Additionally, the character usually feels much heavier than in the "Sword" form.

• Sword — one of the primary gameplay forms caused by input lag. It features an overly sharp and jarring gameplay feel. Everything happens faster than in the "Phantom" form. The weapon feels like it fires faster, overall game animations become less smooth and more abrupt, and the character usually feels hyper-light and agile. At the same time, mouse sensitivity becomes "laser-sharp" and twitchy.

• Tank — one of the secondary (additional) gameplay forms caused by input lag. It is characterized by a maximal loss of mobility: the character feels extremely heavy and sluggish, the mouse moves with heavy, viscous resistance, and the rate of fire and spray visually slows down. However, this form provides stable and high-quality hit registration (hitreg) at the absolute expense of dynamics. There are no severe desync issues.

• Severity Tier (Degree, Tier) — the level of the anomalous input lag issue on a user's specific device. Typically, tiers are categorized in ascending order of game responsiveness: Worst, Playable, Ideal, Super-Ideal, Ultra.

• Ideal — the baseline tier of minimal anomalous input lag. It is characterized by good, but not perfect, system performance. The community generally agrees that the game can feel even more responsive (on Super-Ideal and Ultra tiers).

• Ultra — the maximum tier of system responsiveness where anomalous input lag is virtually nonexistent, often referred to as the "Unattainable Ideal". This state combines the best qualities of both "Phantom" and "Sword", giving the player a massive competitive advantage over others in-game.

• Desync — desynchronization of data between the game client and the server. Examples include unexplainable or impossible deaths, hit registration failures, etc.

• Time To Kill (TTK, Timer) — the actual window of time given to a player to eliminate an enemy upon peeking them. The worse the severity tier of anomalous input lag, the shorter this "timer" becomes: at a low subjective TTK, you are killed so instantly that you physically do not have time to even react to the enemy.