[General] Simple Question, can the "Wait" command desync games?

[MasterWarlord]

The wait command causing desync in online games is a long running assumption I'd heard from some world editor guides in the past. Assuming your map is multiplayer, wait should never be used, only timers, because wait will desync the game. I've used timers only ever since. Is this at all correct?

 

[IcemanBo]

"can" is such a word^^, if used very wrongly maybe, like abusing local actions in combo. But wait alone definitly doesn't lead to desync state. This post though, is a good explanation post about the wait action.

 

[MasterWarlord]

Local actions meaning event responses like dying unit, correct? So something like this would be unacceptable?

(This also leaks a location as well, correct?)

 

[Pyrogasm]

No, nothing wrong with what you wrote. Yes it leaks a location. In this context "local" means "for one/some players but not all players", which you accomplish through this:

• Custom script if GetLocalPlayer() == WhateverPlayerYouWant then
• -------- do things here, but desyncs can happen --------
• Custom script: endif