I know when you have host your DMR blooms when you respwan is there a advantage for being host?
I don’t think so.
I’ll look into it.
Yes. Your shots will register instantly when you are host. When you’re off host it will take a little bit until your shots register.
It’s easy to notice in SWAT and Grifball. Especially in Grifball.
> Yes. Your shots will register instantly when you are host. When you’re off host it will take a little bit until it registers.
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> It’s easy to notice in SWAT and Grifball.
What do you mean register?
> > Yes. Your shots will register instantly when you are host. When you’re off host it will take a little bit until it registers.
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> > It’s easy to notice in SWAT and Grifball.
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> What do you mean register?
he means when the shots actually do damage to someone. When you are playing on a bad host, sometimes it feels as if your bullets are made of rubber, they just aren’t doing anything. If you are host, the second you shoot with a DMR, you will inflict damage on the enemy.
If you have host in a competitive multiplayer game there will not be any lag on any of your actions, if you’re not host there’s the possibility of lag.
The host can fire at a sustained high rate more consistently but has to put up with opponents having smaller headshot hitboxes whereas someone off-host may have more difficulty maintaining the same accuracy with the same high fire rate but has larger headshot hitboxes to aim for.
I prefer host if only because it is easier to get consistent bodyshots to lower opponents shields then slow down to nail the headshot, off-host I fire slightly slower to lower shields and don’t slow as much when going for the headshot because of the larger hitboxes.
Just experiment and go with what works for you.
Host still gets BS now and then so don’t think everything will make 100% sense from the hosts point of view.
Reach probably has the least host advantage of any Halo game but if it is a truly shocking host Reach can be right up there with Halo 2 for BS.
It’s alleged that you have less aim-assist as host.
Host runs the connection of the game the connection is in the hosts favor.
Initially I didn’t believe people who were claiming host selection has been worse since 343 too over Reach but it really has been shocking the few times I’ve played Reach in the past few months.
Prefer good connection still likes pairing me up with international hosts and most people in the match will be lagging. I often have to put up with people trying to TK while they’re raging about the lag.
The irony is that because I have a high downstream and upstream the game seems to think it’s fine to pair me up with people on the other side of the world even with prefer good connection active.
Just hit a New Zealand host in the head 4 times with only the 4th shot registering in SWAT, everyone was yellow-bar.