Blast messege - WHAT!?

[SomethingOdd]

What is the action Blast message, and what diffrence does it do compared to the normal send messege.

thx in advance

[James]

It's faster than sending a message, but there's no guarantee of it arriving (or whether blasted messages will arrive in the correct order).

[SomethingOdd]

Thanks for the answer Jamie.

[Dynasoft]

The technical answer is that blast uses UDP (completely unguaranteed, message could arrive out-of-order, not at all, or even potentially corrupted, but it's faster), where the normal send uses TCP (completely guaranteed, will always arrive exactly how it was sent, unless a router on the route is malfunctioning or the connection is dropped, but the error-checking makes it slower).

EDIT: It's best to always use the normal send every so often even if you use blast as well, so that even if someone is on a link where UDP is blocked completely they can still use your program.

[BrandonC]

UDP is best used for game movement because it's nice and fast, and generally information is updated frequently enough that the errors are negligible. However use TCP for chat because you don't want this to be messed up. It might end friendships. xD

[Mathias]

UDP packets never get corrupted because of the added checksum-- they do get 'lost', though