Counterstrike is a team-based multi-player game where online players are grouped into competing teams where each team is assigned a specific goal. The environment of the game is pre-loaded and clients exchange game state over the network using small UDP packets. Bursty losses can have an adverse effect on the progress of this game. First, during the initiation phase, the client generates important control packets which if lost can render the client unable to connect to the server. Second, a burst of packet losses during the middle of a game can either cause skips or cause a player to get disconnected. A skip can arise because the game state messages received immediately after a congestion provides a context jump in the game.