(Specifically mouse down/up and position)
Does anyone do this? What are the advantages you’ve gained? Have you experienced problems because of this?
It must not be a completely horrible idea because Rocket League does it (they said so in a gdc talk)
Fairly certain they do it as a method of accounting for latency.
It’d have to be purpose specific. If it’s just a default character, turning the head vaguely in the mouse’s position can be done clientside anyway.
Rocket league is cars so maybe its some kind of latency compensation measure?
Many games use a client-server model where the server is the authoritative. I’ve posted about this topic a couple times on this forum, but I probably went into the most depth on this discussion:
I went in depth on how to make a game feel responsive bar extreme latency.
Why those though? Ping data I can understand. A word of advice, if you ever need to send raw keyboard/mouse/controller input to the server, you are doing something terribly wrong.
I would try everything else before doing this. Why spam your server with continuously-changing user input? Unless you have a very specific use-case that requires authoritative checking by the server for each change, I would avoid this.
I try to avoid pinging the server unless I really have to. Again, I’m sure there are use-cases where a constant stream of info is necessary, and maybe that’s your case.
If you have to do it, try it out and do some benchmarking. I think you can simulate high latency in Studio.