lagrecord.lua

A lagrecord library for Neverlose CS:GO that supports multiple essential HvH features.

Since the CS:GO is likely going to die in about 2 months I decided to no longer gatekeep some of my projects so the pasters can finally learn something from it.

Issues

1. this library is almost 2 years old and some techniques / implementations may be outdated.
2. get_dead_time function is mostly wrong and needs to be done correctly. See this.
3. in some cases it may preserve records that are already invalid (eg. post dormant, etc...)

Information

If you dont need an entire library just to check if the local player is currently under the defensive effect:

local max_tickbase = 0

local function on_createmove(cmd)
    local me = entity.get_local_player()
    local tickbase = me.m_nTickBase

    if math.abs(tickbase - max_tickbase) > 64 then
        -- nullify highest tickbase if the difference is too big
        max_tickbase = 0
    end

    local defensive_ticks_left = 0

    -- defensive effect can be achieved because the lag compensation is made so that
    -- it doesn't write records if the current simulation time is less than/equals highest acknowledged simulation time
    -- https://gitlab.com/KittenPopo/csgo-2018-source/-/blame/main/game/server/player_lagcompensation.cpp#L723

    if tickbase > max_tickbase then
        max_tickbase = tickbase
    elseif max_tickbase > tickbase then
        defensive_ticks_left = math.min(14, math.max(0, max_tickbase-tickbase-1))
    end

    print_dev(defensive_ticks_left)
end

events.createmove(on_createmove)

Example

local lagrecord = require 'lagrecord'

lagrecord.set_update_callback(function(player)
    if player == entity.get_local_player() then
        -- return true to force the library to write entries for the local player
        return true
    end
end)

events.createmove(function()
    local me = entity.get_local_player()

    local snapshot = lagrecord.get_snapshot(me)

    if snapshot == nil then
        return
    end

    local shifting = snapshot.command.shifting
    local defensive = snapshot.command.no_entry

    print_dev(string.format(
        'records: %d | shifting: %d | defensive: [current: %d / max: %d]',
        #lagrecord.get_all(me),
        shifting,
        defensive.x, defensive.y
    ))
end)

Keys

lagrecord.get_snapshot(entity/entity_index)

{
    id,
    tick,
    updated_this_frame,

    origin = {
        angles,
        volume,
        current,
        previous,
        change
    },

    simulation_time = {
        animated,
        current,
        previous,
        change
    },

    command = {
        elapsed,
        choke,
        cycle,
        shifting,
        no_entry
    }
}

---

• I don't think it's necessary to document other functions/features, get_snapshot should be fine for most things.
• You can require this library in neverlose via require 'neverlose/lagrecord'

local lagrecord do
	lagrecord = require 'neverlose/lagrecord'
	lagrecord = lagrecord^lagrecord.SIGNED
end