MC-103508Elytra activation delay proportional to ping
When you press space to activate the elytra, they only do so after a round trip to the server. Seeing that the acceleration of gravity is 32 m/s^2 for players, you can easily drop multiple blocks and then have to cancel the vertical speed you've built up. The lost height is quadratic until you approach terminal velocity; a ping that's twice as high is four times as bad. As conditions worsen things quickly change from workable to smashing right into the ground.
All other movement is predicted/client-owned and corrected. Why not this as well? The server could still cancel your flight if it turned out to be illegal, much like the way you're warped back when you attempt to walk through server-side blocks.
Environment
OS X 10.11.5
Java 1.8.0_74
Created Issue:
Elytra activation delay proportional to ping
When you press space to activate the elytra, they only do so after a round trip to the server. Seeing that the acceleration of gravity is 32 m/s^2 for players, you can easily drop multiple blocks and then have to cancel the vertical speed you've built up. The lost height is quadratic until you approach terminal velocity; a ping that's twice as high is four times as bad. As conditions worsen things quickly change from workable to smashing right into the ground.
All other movement is predicted/client-owned and corrected. Why not this as well? The server could still cancel your flight if it turned out to be illegal, much like the way you're warped back when you attempt to walk through server-side blocks.
Environment
OS X 10.11.5
Java 1.8.0_74
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Please always provide the version where you have seen the issue.
Is this still an issue in the most recent versions (currently that is 1.12.2, or the latest 1.13 development snapshot 18w07c) of Minecraft?
Affect laggy single-player worlds too (less tps = longer delay and more likely to splat into the ground)
Is this still an issue in the latest snapshot 16w44a? If so please update the affected versions.
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Elytra still heavily affected by ping. I can easily fall down by 10-20 blocks before the elytra activates
EDIT: For 1.12.2
Is this still a issue in the latest version of the game(currently 1.13.1)?
If so, please add it to the affected versions, thanks!
This is still a problem in 1.13.2 can it be fixed?