#Armagetron advanced rubber settings download#

Note: rim wall acceleration is a rare feature. If a wall that you're grinding that is is close to the rim wall suddenly disappears, you'll experience a huge and unexpected increase in speed from the rim wall. This does have an interesting effect in servers that have a large factor of outer wall acceleration set, and you should be wary. It is only possible to gain speed from the closest wall to your cycle, another parallel wall to the one you are grinding on the other side of the wall to your cycle, will not bestow any extra speed. This speed boost can also be compounded by grinding 'outside' a cycle wall, up against the grid wall. Some maps may have acceleration enabled on the Rim Walls too, allowing players to grind the outer wall of the grid to gain speed. This is sometimes called a launcher or slingshot and players can often end up gaining a huge speed boost using this method, allowing them to quickly box in other players. The effect of wall-acceleration can be amplified by grinding between two walls. For this reason, grinding an opponents wall and trying to overtake them is tantamount to in-game suicide. In the example given above, if the red player suddenly turned to the right and 'boxed in' the blue player, blue would have far less time to both see the turn and to react to it in time to avoid driving into the resulting perpendicular wall. Blue now benefits from the acceleration effect of 'grinding' against red's wall, and will eventually overtake the red player if they continue in parallel.Īlthough the acceleration gained from grinding is undoubtedly very beneficial in a game where your only weapon is the trail left behind you, it does decrease the amount of time that you have to react to certain situations.At the very last moment, blue turns in the same direction as red, leaving as small a gap as possible between himself and red's wall.Red travels in a straight line in one direction, and blue drives their cycle at right-angles towards red's cycle wall.1 right, gives a theoretical example of grinding against an opponents wall: In a local game configured for very low rubber though (in the absence of network latency), grinding is a much more difficult skill to master.įig. I guess all he wanted was higher ping after all.Grinding tends to be easier in an online game, where rubber aids in driving as close as possible to a wall. To this day I still check up on that account every month or so and he has yet to change his speed back to the speed he had before. He thanks me and tells me I should get a raise and hangs up. We tested his connection and there was a higher ping due to the amount of devices connected.

#Armagetron advanced rubber settings download#

We got him from 250mbps download/ 10mbps upload to 50mbps download and 5mbps upload.

So I asked if he wanted to be on a lower plan that could make his ping higher, he said yes.

He then threatened to leave the company if he doesn't get higher ping. I get that some games lags can actually help (Extremely rare). I explained to him what higher ping will do and that it would make the lag worse, but he didn't believe and was going off what his friends were telling him. He was convinced it was our connection was the issue and not his Xbox and wanted 'higher ping'. I told him there shouldn't be an issue and he should try rebooting the Xbox or taking it to Microsoft since it's a 3rd party device and is part of our demarcations for obvious reasons. We ran speed tests on the Xbox as well and it was showing very similar numbers to what we were getting with his PC. He was hard-wired from his Xbox into the modem. He then proceeded to tell me he lagged in his online games. With modems any ping from 5-50ms in considered great. The speed test was indicating he was getting great speed and had a ping of 10. I looked at his modem, everything looked fine and so we decided to run a speed test. There was a guy who chatted in and gave his details. I work in the chat department and I got a chat. I work on anything residential, but also offer technical support for small businesses and Enterprises. I work for a large scale ISP in the United States.