Tricks online games use to hide lag, ranked by cleverness

A tier list by abafa · filed under Gaming · published 26 September 2026

My opinion: the netcode tricks online games use to hide lag, ranked by how clever they are. Explained in my video "How Online Games Hide Lag" on YouTube (Abafaboy). Rank it yourself!

S tier

  1. Rollback netcode
  2. Client-side prediction

A tier

  1. Lag compensation (rewind time)

B tier

  1. Interpolation (show the past)

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