<![CDATA[How will you know when your game will be unrated due to desync?]]>It was my understanding if you get a desync early in-game that it will unrate your match, however I am unable to predict when it will/wont rate your match. I've seen early desyncs happen on astro and the match still gets rated, and I've seen the opposite too. What's the criteria for when a match is unranked due to a desync?

]]>https://forum.faforever.com/topic/10199/how-will-you-know-when-your-game-will-be-unrated-due-to-desyncRSS for NodeTue, 23 Jun 2026 05:17:53 GMTTue, 16 Jun 2026 13:53:08 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to How will you know when your game will be unrated due to desync? on Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:13:40 GMT]]>In practical terms... If you see desync message once in a game nothing is over yet, but if you see 2 messages then it is unranked because too many desyncs happened.

]]>https://forum.faforever.com/post/73568https://forum.faforever.com/post/73568Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:13:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How will you know when your game will be unrated due to desync? on Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:12:25 GMT]]>If there are more than 20 desync messages sent from any players: https://github.com/FAForever/server/blob/1b98cdae23350c92fab5203b4e6ac9bf52198e6a/server/games/game.py#L477
So I guess the unpredictability comes from the player count heavily affecting the result. An Astro game will send 6 desync messages every 5 seconds while a Dualgap game sends 12.

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