I know they have said the beta is running on dedicated servers but it is really feeling like it is P2P to me.
I am enjoying it but it frequently feels like connection is making an absolutely huge difference to the gameplay. In one round I was literally dominating with a pistol because virtually every four shots I fired was a kill. Even I was stunned because I was basically spamming it (I’m dreadful at aiming for headshots) yet I was getting Perfect medals every other kill. Likewise my melee was unstoppable. I’m sure when I closed the distance they hit melee too but I wasn’t feeling it. I went 2.6 on kills to death that round.
Then, next game I lose every single melee on melee encounter without it even playing my melee animation on their killcam. Suddenly I’m getting headshot around corners whilst it is taking me an entire clip to kill, even on enemies who are not fighting back. I ended that round with a wildly negative kill to death ratio.
If it truly is running on dedicated servers then it has nothing to do with hosting and I guess is simply due to distance from the servers. MCC has the same problem as it frequently puts me against Americans rather than finding people a little nearer to home to even the playing field. Yet I am noticing the effects of this far more in this beta. Anyone else?
Have 343 said anything about bringing in European servers in the beta?
I’m honestly starting to think its a hybrid system. I don’t really trust 343 anymore when it comes to saying that their games run on dedicated servers after MCC almost never running on them.
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> I’m honestly starting to think its a hybrid system. I don’t really trust 343 anymore when it comes to saying that their games run on dedicated servers after MCC almost never running on them.
I’m not quite sure what to make of it. All I know is that I’ve had a few games where I topped the team and felt untouchable but then next round someone new joined and my powers went away. When one person leaving and another joining suddenly makes me lose one on one encounters it feels very much like P2P. The rest of the teams were the same people as previous games.
I’ll happily admit I am not very good when it comes to precision weapons so it seemed odd how I suddenly got great with them and was scoring hat tricks and perfect kills over and over only to suck with them again a couple games later.
This game does use dedicated servers, located or at least registered in the US and Brazil (!). Playing from Europe I measure at least 120ms ping, but of course the servers don’t respond to ping, just like for the MCC. Don’t back out at the end of a game and you’ll stay on the same server for the next game.
I’ve had the same issues. Lots of opposing players teleporting around, 1 shorting me through corners etc etc. So basically if your in the us your actually going to be able to get kills. Otherwise, you might. If you get lucky…