So I can make myself go slower than everyone else, is that what that does? And I doubt you have surfed, so I'd stop calling 33tick surfing "shitty low rate gaming" if I were you. Also, it has never happened to me that shots dont register, nor have I ever heard anyone complain about it(until now). I have played surf dozens of hours.... If you set your rates to 33 you send and recieve less packages so yeah you basically slow down , how ever this does mean you get less packages from the server because it runs at a higher tickrate. That's why servers often enforce 66 tick, you can even set your rates to 5 if you want and your ping will drop to odd numbers like 2 or something like that, wich is even considered a hack. Half life 2 games have quite some different net code settings and many users use wrong tick settings if im running my rates at 66 and the other one runs it at 33 that means he's only recieving half of my packages so you will have hits that don't register.. especially in css and day of defeat i'd see their faces red with blood (even after an awp headshot) and they still shoot at me, so his or her client did'nt register it. That's why i prefer 66 or even 100 tick servers but if surfing runs smooth for you at 33tick i would adjust my settings to that!