Prediction estimates the game state at a client without having the official game state from the server. Prediction takes advantage of the fact that the game client has information on the game world (e.g., object locations, world terrain) and processing capabilities (e.g., ability to compute physics and render the game world), providing the player with world representations before they are confirmed by the server. The drawback with predictive techniques is that they can be wrong in that they may not accurately represent the game world as ultimately determined by the authoritative server. In such cases, there is inconsistency between the client game state and the server game state so that when the client game state is inevitably corrected to align with the server game state, the fix is noticeable and may even be jarring to the player.
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