Loved it, thanks for being so thorough and document the train of thought.
I want to ask about one thing I could not understand completely on the final section: If there was a client that sent arbitrary values for selected weapon, forward, left, etc; would the host count them as valid? (I understood this is essentially what the MITM allowed to do)
Also, a little feedback, my immersion broke when the video did not show Howard and Ghost anymore. Something like Howard1 and Ghost1 would've helped understand a little bit more.
> Loved it, thanks for being so thorough and document the train of thought.
Glad to hear! I was hoping to make the whole process easy to follow without any large skips or prior knowledge. It is more or less my process but with a lot of dead ends removed.
> I want to ask about one thing I could not understand completely on the final section: If there was a client that sent arbitrary values for selected weapon, forward, left, etc; would the host count them as valid? (I understood this is essentially what the MITM allowed to do)
Yes, it appears so. The host seems to accept more or less arbitrary values (at least for forward, left, actions) and also just re-broadcasts them to everyone. The guest client then also ignores what it sent and just uses what it receives from the host. This allows us to modify the inputs/speed of any guest client players without desyncing the clients.
> Also, a little feedback, my immersion broke when the video did not show Howard and Ghost anymore. Something like Howard1 and Ghost1 would've helped understand a little bit more.
Good idea, I could have made it clearer which perspective the video was taken from (the guest client). Might be able to re-record or simply mention it in the text.
I want to ask about one thing I could not understand completely on the final section: If there was a client that sent arbitrary values for selected weapon, forward, left, etc; would the host count them as valid? (I understood this is essentially what the MITM allowed to do)
Also, a little feedback, my immersion broke when the video did not show Howard and Ghost anymore. Something like Howard1 and Ghost1 would've helped understand a little bit more.