New minecraft version. (1.15)

[NiLSPACE]

I hope this won't concern us either: https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/38...1074634752

[xoft]

I'm afraid that concerns us a lot

[ThuGie]

By DinnerBone - Most packets themselves aren't going to change much but the handshaking and ping procedure is being redone.

[FakeTruth]

Oh that's just great... Although I do hope they improve the latency a lot, that would be interesting. Perhaps by using UDP and some sort of movement prediction.

[xoft]

They can't use UDP, it wouldn't work with (stream) encryption; and UDP encryption brings in too much network bandwidth overhead. I think in today's world using TCP is good enough for most purposes.

And movement prediction is already there - all the entities send their velocity, so the client can predict where they'll be.

[FakeTruth]

Oh, okay. AFAIK most FPS games do use UDP though since it has less latency, screw encryption, who cares where you're going to in a game... :/

[tigerw]

Oh, okay. AFAIK most FPS games do use UDP though since it has less latency, screw encryption, who cares where you're going to in a game... :/

Apparently people don't like their session stole (SessionStealer) by griefers who then use that info to op-grief the stealee's server.

[FakeTruth]

That's just for login. You would login over TCP and use UDP for movement. You don't need encryption for the UDP data...

[xoft]

Then someone could simply steal the connection while you're connected. It'd be a bit more difficult, but not immensely, script kiddies would do it all the time.

[FakeTruth]

Steal the UDP connection? Who cares :p