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I am so glad to have never bought this game! Why does this community keep playing online if nothing is legit, whether or not you experience and see the broken lag compensation? Stop the insanity.
ORIGINAL POST:
I am not going to spend much time posting an elaborate topic about this, but the lag compensation in war games is obviously severely broken to anyone who knows how to see it. So much that i am very glad to have rented this game first. I will not be supporting any more of these broken multiplayer games of recent with increasingly worse lag compensation. Why play a competitive multiplayer game where nothing is legit and good connections are put at the disadvantage?
For those unaware of ‘lag compensation’, it’s essentially written into a game’s netcode in the attempt to hide latency. This is why everything appears smooth and without delay. But what you see is quite frequently not reality by any means to someone who experiences the disadvantage side of things.
Basically, you are seeing things with a delay, or of the past. While laggy players are not. Putting you at a disadvantage. This leads to experiencing many of lag compensations drawbacks such as; you are the first to shoot an enemy [accurately] and then die, are killed after taking the safety of cover in the environment, need to shoot far more then enough ammunition to kill an enemy, get killed in less shots then required, both killed at the same time despite clearly doing something like a melee first, very frequent assists, everyone having virtually even kill/death ratios on the scoreboards, etc. And killcams will even display this. They are not broken. You are just viewing the same events that had taken place as you died but from their camera view. The problem is you are seeing things with a delay, or of the past because of lag compensation. So for instance, if they are shooting behind you, that’s because they actually were shooting you before that when you where once there. You will also notice players who give you the most issues are from mexico and/or more then not the ones with very little years of xbox live and low gamerscore, in other words casual or noobie players with poor internet. I am thinking killcams are not displayed at all in big team infinity slayer because it would be so much more noticeable from the increased demand on the netcode.
Sadly, developers are not open about it and do everything from deceive or lie in the attempt to keep this very real problem from being widely known. It’s my opinion developers/publishers either don’t care about the netcode quality, are incompetent, or have been dialing up lag compensation to cater to poor internet connections in sake of more profits.
Many players believe this is all caused by traditional latency or something else such as the hitboxes. But it’s not. And many believe it will be fixed but it won’t. No game ever fixes it.
And no it’s not my connection! How do i know this? My connection(s) have always tested fine. And i have experienced this lag compensation garbage using 3 different isp’s; in 2 different countries; 3 different cities; using 3 different consoles; all using different network hardware, and using multiple internet bandwidth speeds from 1mbps download and 256kbps upload, to 50mbps download and 3mbps upload.
So ya, there is no legitimacy in this game. And unfortunately many do not even see it when they do indeed experience the garbage it creates.
EDIT:
To end some confusion; to my best knowledge, it’s definitely a per connection, per game basis, if you experience the disadvantage side of things because of lag compensation. It must be cranked to a varying degree with each game. This also explains why nerfing your connection can work in one game and not in another.
And do remember there are players getting the disadvantage side of things and those who are not. This does not mean there is not a problem for the vast majority of others. And even if you do not experience anything; you should really be bothered with the fact there is no legitimacy in combat.
It’s total garbage to have the enemy react to you, turn, aim, and begin to shoot numinous shots before you even see it and the result. Period.
It would be in 343 Industries best interest to respond promptly and truthfully, before they start losing faithful customers!
