Changing MP Match Speeds?

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Me and a bunch of friends have been playing together on ICO recently and we've noted something really odd; the game speeds don't seem to be consistent. Matches can go at anywhere from 1x to 8x speed. 8x is really much too fast for all of our tastes, and thus I was wondering if there's some way, as the host, to ensure that a game that I'm setting up sticks to 1x or 2x speed?

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

You can't actually change the game speed in multiplayer, besides the usual game income speeds etc. at the start of the game.

What happens in ICO multiplayer is that the game uses a lag prevention algorithm that for some reason, increases the game speed as a side effect. The greater the latency between players and the server, the worse the effect is.

Typically this is very noticeable early in the game but goes back to normal as the game goes on.

There isn't anything you can do, other than trying to improve your connection. As an alternative, you could try to do local LAN multiplayer, I'm not sure if the same mechanisms are in place there.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Well that algorithm's spectacularly failing these days.  Seems in the last month or two MP games run ridiculously fast.  Our pings are in the 20s and 30s.  

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