I don’t know why 343 hasn’t fixed the enormous amounts of lag in Matchmaking… I have a good connection and am a decent Halo player but the last time I tried playing Halo 4 a couple of days ago, I played 2 games and I think I maybe got 1 kill the whole time…
I was so fed up already with how the game was behaving that night that I just turned it off. I really feel like the lag is partially a reason why people don’t play this game much anymore. It’s incredibly smooth when the game is running correctly, but there are spikes of lag in nearly every game that make it near to completely unplayable for that time being. Some matches just consist of constant lag and it’s so frustrating.
Maybe at this point, it’s not a practical fix in the eyes of 343, but I really believe the netcoding in this game needs fixing. Pretty sure I can pop in any other Halo game and have a more consistent experience playing the game, but in Halo 4 lag is always an issue at some point during my play session.
Really wish 343 would look into this issue, because I know a lot of the people I play with talk about experiencing the same thing.
Yes it is, but since everyone is working on Halo 5, I doubt 343 will fix it…
Yeah, a local only search option works wonders.
Halo 3 lags worse, and Halo PC is almost unplayable.
> Yes it is, but since everyone is working on Halo 5, I doubt 343 will fix it…
See, and that’s a problem… They’re losing players.
OP, that, is a complete exaggeration. Halo 3, was so laggy, it was ridiculous.
> Halo 3 lags worse, and Halo PC is almost unplayable.
Hey now. Custom Edition SAPP 5.0 servers… 
> Yes it is, but since everyone is working on Halo 5, I doubt 343 will fix it…
Your right. And I think the weapon update made the game even more laggy…
I rarely encounter lag. I must be blessed by the Halo gods.
> > Yes it is, but since everyone is working on Halo 5, I doubt 343 will fix it…
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> Your right. And I think the weapon update made the game even more laggy…
Well you think wrong. A weapon update has nothing to do with netcode.
In your own experience. In mine i have yet to experience a very laggy halo game. I have had some matches that had lag hiccups every now and then. But i’ve never had troubles with lag in any halo game.
> > Halo 3 lags worse, and Halo PC is almost unplayable.
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> Hey now. Custom Edition SAPP 5.0 servers…
Are there any public servers running this?
I would cry tears of joy.
> > > Halo 3 lags worse, and Halo PC is almost unplayable.
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> > Hey now. Custom Edition SAPP 5.0 servers…
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> Are there any public servers running this?
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> I would cry tears of joy.
My copy of Custom got corrupted somehow so I haven’t been on lately, but as far as I know any server with the tag of ‘SAPP 5.0’ should have the no lead mod also.
I will normally get lag most nights i play it, getting shot through walls, punching someone 5 times before they die, teleporting people around the map, black screens, the list goes on.
I’m from the UK, I can tell some of the time that the people I’m playing with are from the States, but I dont actively heck where they are based when I have a laggy game. I just quit and find another. Lag is the one thing I swear at the screen for, that and spawn killing.
> I will normally get lag most nights i play it, getting shot through walls, punching someone 5 times before they die, teleporting people around the map, black screens, the list goes on.
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> I’m from the UK, I can tell some of the time that the people I’m playing with are from the States, but I dont actively heck where they are based when I have a laggy game. I just quit and find another. Lag is the one thing I swear at the screen for, that and spawn killing.
I get the same thing - 70% of my H4 War Games are lagged by 0.5 to 5 seconds - and I’m in Western Canada. Many people have lag issues with H4.
Halo Reach on the other hand (I switched from H4 to Halo Reach for my Halo fix on June 2, 2013), I have had about 5% games that have the typical H4 Lag. Reach just has better host selection methods, better net code and better regional filters, as well as user selectable filters to let the user choose some connection options to address lag.
> > > Halo 3 lags worse, and Halo PC is almost unplayable.
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> > Hey now. Custom Edition SAPP 5.0 servers…
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> Are there any public servers running this?
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> I would cry tears of joy.
Last time I checked almost every server on custom edition was running SAPP, not sure if they were 5.0.
I wonder how much of it is within 343’s power to fix. I mean, the amount of internet bandwidth used today is astronomical compared to even Halo 3’s heyday.
I get a laggy game on occasion but I also get laggy Netflix streams, too.
Complaining about video game lag is like complaining about bad cell phone connections. It happens and sometimes it cannot be helped.
Actually, vice versa. I rarely lag in this game. Past HALO’s I played in the, well past, lagged quite a bit more.
Does Halo 4 lag? Sometimes.
Is it THE laggiest Halo? Not by a long shot.
Really? Halo 4 seems like the best in terms of being lag-free for me. Halo: Reach was much worse. Followed by Halo 3.