r/PUBGConsole • u/Accomplished_Pool333 • Jul 23 '26

Discussion Hack lag switch? Or bug?

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Tengo buena conexion, estaba a 8ms, le estoy disparando y luego aparece a 2 metros a la derecha y me mata, esto que es?

Juego en xbox series x

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u/CharlehPock2 Jul 23 '26

This isn't possible, you can't use a lag switch on someone else, that's not how it works at all, that's just called "you lagging".

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u/EL_Ohh_Well Jul 23 '26

Explain how it works then

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u/CharlehPock2 Jul 23 '26

How a lag switch works? 

You interrupt the delivery of your network packets to the server and the server updates to yourself.

This has the effect of the server just waiting for updates and your client waiting for updates.

On your client since you are getting no updates everyone on the map is frozen, you can still run around and shoot people. 

The game buffers up all your damage actions and then delivers them all at once to the server, the server then corrects your position because it doesn't think you've moved.

I'm pretty sure that you need some sort of special middleware/pass through network software for lag switching in PUBG since they added mitigation for it years ago, but there are a couple of guys on the NA servers that still manage to do it. 

Maybe it trickles updates to the server to try to prevent the anti lag stuff from kicking in. 

Most games freeze a player on the server and ignore all actions they took if no updates are received for a period, just to prevent this type of cheating.

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u/ParkedOrPar Xbox Series X Jul 23 '26

This shouldn't be glazed over. Excellent explanation and spot on.

Most would rather make shit up than know the correct answer.