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When there are players who spend their lives perfecting one skill, playing 10-12 hours a day to practice a game, the top level players expect their in-game actions to match what the server computes. Tickrate is super important for any game that becomes an e-sport. Doubling a server’s tickrate pretty much doubles the bandwidth, which increases costs. This article deals with server-client tickrate, as usually that’s the one that’s limited by game companies. There’s a distinction to be made between client-server tickrate, which is the frequency with which packets are sent from your computer to the server, and server-client tickrate, which does the opposite. A difference of 128 and 64 tick won’t be noticeable if your monitor refresh rate is 60Hz or below, as the reduced delay won’t be shown between frames on your screen. So if your ping in Overwatch is around 25ms, the low tickrate is basically doubling your delay. A 20 tick server would have a maximum delay of 50ms and an average delay of 25ms.

If you’re familiar with the concept of ping (your system’s latency to the game server), this means that on average every action you take will be delayed by 7.8 ms. What this means for players is that every action a player takes happens with a maximum delay of 15.6 ms. If a server is sending you packets 64 times per second, it means you’re only getting information about the game every 1000/64 =15.6 milliseconds. These packets contain all the information about what’s happening in the game player movement, shots fired and flaming in allchat. Games like CS:GO have a tickrate of 64Hz, which means the game server sends packets to your client on what’s happening in the game 64 times per second. It’s measured in Hertz, so it happens very fast – many times per second. Tickrate is the frequency with which the game server computes stuff and sends the info to your computer. Before we start, take a look at the tickrates of some games old and new: Tickrate has been a source of contention between gamers since competitive gaming was invented. Games these days have varying tickrates depending on the the type of game you’re playing and the cost to the company (their greed, rather).