is it me or does it seem like every game you get into are seriously laggy?!?! black screen very often??!?!
also i cant connect to any of my friends on my friends list. and they cant do the same either. when trying to join session in progress. it gives the old “your connection is not compatible” your nat “OPEN” is more compatible…blah blah blah. ive tried closing my nat ive tried opening. ive tried being directly connected to my modem (no router/gateway) still having connection issues.
also half way thru the game (even when i finally do connect with friends) the game will say everyone quit and i will be the remaining player in the game. same with friends (everyone quits and theyre the last players)
assassinations glitching out?? (assassinate someone they either get assasinated and come back to life. or while in the middle of assassinating, the motion stops then youre being assassinated)
spartan ops! FORGET IT!!! its worse then the lag on Firefight on Reach!!! ive got people who have up to 45mbs speeds and lag horribly!!!
I started having lag problems Friday night at about midnight and it continued today. Games just feel wrong. they need to fix the lag issues. So far it has the most issues of all the halos, which have been amazing lag wise, this one is a disgrace. This is why you have a beta… Still a lot less lag issues than cod or other games tho, so good job not completely failing.
Ps- still the best game ever.
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Of course cartman would say something stupid like that… in order to even play xbox live you need at least dsl/cable, so no its not their connection.
Their web code is bad. Usually they would sacrifice the beautiful facade for better online gameplay, halo 4 seems to have forgotten that.
All the pre-release footage was from LAN games, with hardly any latency. Every video game company does that in order to SELL -Yoink-, but I feel like we’ve all been sheep on this one.
I’ve been wondering if DSL users are the problem. Speeds up to 40+ MBPS downstream, but usually less than 1 MBPS upstream, around 896 KBPS. DSL is NOT good for gaming, due to the low upstream bandwidth. Could this be the cause of the Spartan Ops issues? In Spartan Ops, the XBOX systems create an ad-hoc network between themselves, with one system being the “host” and every system required to be in sync with each other. Thus, the slowest connection is the fastest the rest can operate at. If the host is waiting for a “I’m doing this” update from one system before it can send the info out to everyone about what everyone is doing, then it lags. Source here. With DSL’s pitiful upstream speeds, could this be causing the issue? Halo 4 is more graphic intensive, and while it’s only going to upload and download basic commands to update each system as to what everyone else is doing, it has to do that in real time and there is a lot of information it’s still going to have to stream. Keep in mind that you rarely get the advertised speeds, as those speeds are “up to” XX MBPS/KBPS. So, could this be causing the bottle neck?
You have a terrible connection bud. I get the occasional laggy match but generally speaking its good and when it isnt it is my own connection to that particular game that is lacking. Most of my “laggy” games are bearable too, oftentimes the game selects a new host and cleans up the lag for me.
Two players with measley 512/128kbps ADSL1 would be able to play together mostly lag free latency permitting.
Even with 4 players the upstream bandwidth of an average ADSL2+ connection is enough to not be an issue unless one of the players has a line fault causing extremely low upstream speeds.
The bigger issue is that DSL has higher latency than cable which is a few milliseconds at most. I have observed DSL latency of 50ms+ on lines that are in extremely poor condition or have faults.
Sometimes it may be the DSL modem itself that is a dud or poor performer causing much higher latency than would normally be the norm.
The entire world could have 1Gbps symmetrical connections and we still wouldn’t have a completely lag free matchmaking experience because the current system gives little if any weight to pairing people up with low latency to one another together and will most of the time pair people with 100’s of milliseconds of latency between one another together.
The Lag in this game is the worst I’ve ever seen, every single time I take a step I get moved back. On adrift every time I go on the grav lift I end up committing suicide due to the lag.
Black screen comes up way too often.
I got a new modem and faster connection to the internet. So its not on my end.
MP is most likely your connection -Yoinking!- up like mine does periodically. However, SpOps is only as laggy as the laggiest players connection. So if you have someone from say Austrailia and you’re in the USA, you are going to Lag. Like. -Yoink-. Just research until you find one where the connection is tolerable. Also, SpOps is built on the Campaign Coop engine, same as firefight, they probably did nothing to it so that’s why its so laggy at times. Unless they completely rebuild to coop engine from the ground up and incorperate the multiplayer engine into it like Treyarch did with Blops2 and Zombies, coop will NEVER be smooth. EVER.
The lag is soooooo bad since this weekend, it was okay for a long time but since friday it started of getting to bad, some games start and im just looking at a screen of the map and when ik finnaly start the game is almost over…
Please fix the server 343 cause this is horrible