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AI-generatedTickrate transition impact on projectile trajectory and movement precision
The Source Engine utilizes a tick-based simulation where network updates are decoupled from internal physics steps. When transitioning server configurations from a 64-tick to a 128-tick environment, the increased frequency of world state snapshots alters the granularity of client-side prediction and server-side lag compensation. Because physics calculations