I'm seeing something similar as well. Bites don't seem to be landing when I'm really close to the marine (like pressed against him).
I recently followed a marine as they tried to run back to base, I was literally bouncing off their back as I swiped continuously, The marine was a green so he had no idea what was happening behind him, he was just running straight as an arrow back to the armory. I kept going just to LOL at how bad it was, I would say I attempted 15 swipes with 0 hits. I was blinking to catch up to them then walking behind them.
I then hit ` followed by QUIT then ENTER and I refuse to play this game again until this is fixed. Just terrible.
Just curious what pop was the server? I notice it happening the most in 24 player servers when it's full.
It was a 24 player server, although I think at the time it only had 16-18 players in it, and this server performs quite well and I did not notice any lag / rubber banding that would suggest the server was performing poorly.
Tick rate is generally a better metric than how something feels though. Next time, do a net_stats to know for sure. Things can "feel" normal down to 15 in my experience.
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It was a 24 player server, although I think at the time it only had 16-18 players in it, and this server performs quite well and I did not notice any lag / rubber banding that would suggest the server was performing poorly.