Now before you jump to any conclusions, I have nothing against Americans.
That being said, about 9/10 when I play against Americans in a matchmaking they always pull a unfair Host.
No matter how strong my or my friends connection is they always get host.
So for example if you look at it from a perspective of A bad player with a K/D of below 1.00 with Host can easily kill/out DMR me and I would put about 8 DMR shots into them with about 3 or 4 of them shots not registering.
Don’t get me wrong I know I am not the best player in the world but I am a solid player who will give you a run for you’re money in a fair fight. I think my service record speaks in volumes for that point.
It gets really frustrating at times so I normally Rage quit and go play something else
I have so many BS videos on my fileshare of my Pummels/Headshots/Grenades not registering but instead soaked up like a sponge!
Don’t say to me ‘‘Play with people from your country’’ I don’t have time to be on at UK peak times so I normally play when America hits Xbl peak times.
With all being said I think in order to help fix problems like this we need to see future Halo games get DEDICATED SERVERS!
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I think Scooby Doo’s less confused than you. Take your Ego elsewhere
This is true but unless 343 are willing to invest the money into buying and maintaining sufficient dedicated servers for hosting games, then this probably won’t go ahead, as always it’s an issue of profit rather than an issue of money, they wouldn’t want to lower their own profit margins, and so would probably only introduce dedicated servers if the game sold poorly and they saw the lack of dedicated hosting as one of the core fundamental reasons for the games failure. If they could view dedicated hosting as an investment into the success of the franchise, not just the sale of the game, but the subscription of xbox live gold to continue to play the game and the sale of microsoft points to continue to buy new map packs in order to enhance and extend the online portion of the game, then this would happen. But while they view it as an extra cost and not an investment, it won’t happen.
As for the anecdotal evidence, a while back I was in a team of 4 and so were the other guys, we played them on their non-eu host and it was terrible (Connection wise) nades were being soaked up, rockets (from us) werent even popping their shields despite being close, strafes were laggy, shots were being sponged etc etc… we ended up losing 50 - 45 and I think the only symptom of lag which wasn’t there was teleporting, people weren’t teleporting, just enemies had delayed strafes.
Anyhow, we searched again and we went up against the same people the second time around. This time (whoever it was who had host) was not laggy at all - the game wasnt super smooth but it was very playable. We absolutely thrashed the same guys and came out 50 - 20, after losing the previous game to them 50 - 45 on their host. Conclusion: if the ping between the host and an entire team in a distant location is big enough, connection alone can completely influence the result of the game all by itself and skill becomes a minor factor in this frustrating annoyance.
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I smell bullsht, plenty of kids in america can’t afford some decent comcast so steal their neighbour’s crap wireless and connect on that or live out in hillbilly land so connect to the internet via the radio antenna of their obese mommas derelict pick-up truck which sits out in the yard smelling of -Yoink- and serving as a home to young americans who couldn’t get their G.E.D so work with Pedro and Carlos down at Taco Bell. Yes, those 3rd world type americans can afford an xbox but they can’t afford comcast as that sht is like a mortgage to them because they’re stuck earning $5 an hour in the worlds richest country, still living it up african style though! That’s the problem too, it’s not always ping but it’s -Yoink- internet. We have kids here in England who connect to the internet through abandoned tea sets which were left out in the rain a few too many times and now live in their garden sheds, and because the internet upstream it provides is so low, it leads to crappy laggy–Yoink- games even when everybody in the game has just had their hourly dose of crumpets and the queens speech.
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Issues are PING - (distance from host to other players)
BANDWIDTH - (enough bandwidth - MAINLY UPLOAD BANDWIDTH - to communicate your actions to all players simultaneously) all it takes is one player too far away or lacking in bandwidth to -Yoink- up the smoothness of everything for everyone.
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lolwut? How do you even know if he lives in a TW country? Please check the definition of “third world” before you go insulting others.
> I smell bullsh*t, plenty of kids in america can’t afford some decent comcast so steal their neighbour’s crap wireless and connect on that
Not everyone has $100 a month to spend on “good” internet.
> or live out in hillbilly land so connect to the internet via the radio antenna of their obese mommas derelict pick-up truck which sits out in the yard smelling of Yoink! and serving as a home to young americans who couldn’t get their G.E.D so work with Pedro and Carlos down at Taco Bell.Yes, those 3rd world type americans can afford an xbox but they can’t afford comcast as that sh*t is like a mortgage to them because they’re stuck earning $5 an hour in the worlds richest country, still living it up african style though! That’s the problem too, it’s not always ping but it’s Yoink! internet. We have kids here in England who connect to the internet through abandoned tea sets which were left out in the rain a few too many times and now live in their garden sheds, and because the internet upstream it provides is so low, it leads to crappy laggy–Yoink!- games even when everybody in the game has just had their hourly dose of crumpets and the queens speech.
…What? Now you don’t even know what you’re talking about. Please stop. This is uncalled for and immature.
Hold tight all the teapots that knows
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> …What? Now you don’t even know what you’re talking about. Please stop. This is uncalled for and immature.
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- Yes, thank you for reinforcing my point in a more serious tone, that definitely lends it believability and more credibility, I’m happy you could reword exactly what I said without agreeing with me, how magical of you.
2 - Type in google “sarcasm wikipedia”, or “what is a sense of humour and how do I get one?” - Good luck.
Here you go, I googled this especially for you: http://www.rd.com/family/19-ways-to-enhance-your-sense-of-humor/
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> 1. - Yes, thank you for reinforcing my point in a more serious tone, that definitely lends it believability and more credibility, I’m happy you could reword exactly what I said without agreeing with me, how magical of you.
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> 2 - Type in google “sarcasm wikipedia”, or “what is a sense of humour and how do I get one?” - Good luck.
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> Here you go, I googled this especially for you: http://www.rd.com/family/19-ways-to-enhance-your-sense-of-humor/
Hmm… clever. You can still be funny without insulting every race, country, and people group all in one post.