Lag and poor hit detection are getting old.

Games Other Halo
1

I have had nothing but crap connections since yesterday, having to shoot people with a whole clip to get my kill, and literally almost never having my first head shoot count. It is not my connection, so what is going on? I mean I understand network is a complicated thing, but this is making me not even want to play the game.

And random host migration every match is seriously infuriating, I just want to play the damn game, not stare at the black screen. I actually have a friend who will not play because the hit detection is so bad, he showed me videos of shooting guys three times in the head to finish kills and having them all count as body shots, then missing and getting headshots.

2

I have similar issues…I think it has to do mainly with the game being very liberal with letting clients with highly varying pings enter the lobby and dsyncing and screwing up the gameplay. It needs to be more selective and not just throw people in to lobbies.

I’m willing to wait 10 seconds longer or however longer and be guaranteed a lobby with a Host that’s either pretty close or I ping reasonably well to 75ms> at least.

These new games don’t do well with varying pings. The slightly older games I feel networked well and had better ways of handling hit detection. A 3 bar in COD4 felt like how a 3 bar should, now 4 bars are just as good 3 even 2. I feel Halo may taken a similar route, Halo 3’s shots felt crisp…to me half of Halo 4’s bullets might as be jelly beans.

3

I’m not having problems like these. I’m sure the problem is on your side, and not the games. You can try leading, like in the old halo 1 days.

4

i feel you op. but not in a while. ive actually had great games these last three days. except spartan ops. but i’ve been lag free for 3 days =) but before that oh man i wanted to throw my xbox out the window -_-

5

> I’m not having problems like these. I’m sure the problem is on your side, and not the games. You can try leading, like in the old halo 1 days.

It’s not on his end because I’ve been having the same issue since yesterday as well. My internet connection is spot on. It is becoming quite annoying.

6

I tried to play some Halo 4 tonight and I had to just get off the game after 3 matches because it kept black screening every 10 seconds.

7

yes getting sick of hitting someone 2 times 1st before they even shoot then the rest of my shots go into their body/ head perfectly and istill end up dying before them.

8

I played with friends for several hours tonight in multiplayer and we didnt have any issues with lag and we are spread out all over the country. I did get a message from one guy after a game accusing me a lag hosting so on his end it must of been laggy but I haven’t had any issues with Halo 4 at all to this point.

9

its the servers. theres been problems since day 1

10

> yes getting sick of hitting someone 2 times 1st before they even shoot then the rest of my shots go into their body/ head perfectly and istill end up dying before them.

I know what you mean, happened to me like 5 times when playing BTB earlier.

11

I got killed the other day by some kid using a pistol. When I went back and watched the replay, my shots were just magically not counting against him, and his reticle was about 2-3 body widths away from my head when I died. This is kind of a serious issue 343i. I don’t get outplayed by a kid with a pistol that’s not even trying to aim at me.