Honestly changing this was one of the more dumb things I’ve seen. People that actually used this to block only the good players so they could match against lower skills were few and far between.
The only thing I ever used it for was to block the 500 accounts of the lagswitcher of grifball. Now I match against them again and because they are able to cheat their way to winning most matches, I will match them time after time after time after time.
It isn’t fun, it isn’t fair when somebody’s connection is so intentionally bad they can’t be touched, it just ruins it for everyone.
So make it so you avoid the 500 people who keep beating you. Yup, I totally can’t see why they saw fit to change that either. Not at all.
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> So make it so you avoid the 500 people who keep beating you. Yup, I totally can’t see why they saw fit to change that either. Not at all.
The one person with 500 accounts. The guy is a well known lag switcher and catfish. There were still a ton of people that would beat me and I wouldn’t block them because they were doing it fairly.
All of the accounts I blocked had similar sounding feminine names, extremely low gamerscores, they all had the same playstyle, and if they were ever losing, suddenly they would start to teleport allowing them to move right past you unscathed and score.
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> The one person with 500 accounts. The guy is a well known lag switcher and catfish. There were still a ton of people that would beat me and I wouldn’t block them because they were doing it fairly.
> All of the accounts I blocked had similar sounding feminine names, extremely low gamerscores, they all had the same playstyle, and if they were ever losing, suddenly they would start to teleport allowing them to move right past you unscathed and score.
Is lag switching a thing? I thought dedicated servers eliminated that. And what the holy hell is a catfish in terms of Halo?
LOLOLOL, You need to understand I give good reputation to the people I beat so I get matched with them more often.
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> > The one person with 500 accounts. The guy is a well known lag switcher and catfish. There were still a ton of people that would beat me and I wouldn’t block them because they were doing it fairly.
> > All of the accounts I blocked had similar sounding feminine names, extremely low gamerscores, they all had the same playstyle, and if they were ever losing, suddenly they would start to teleport allowing them to move right past you unscathed and score.
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> Is lag switching a thing? I thought dedicated servers eliminated that. And what the holy hell is a catfish in terms of Halo?
Language, please. But lag switching is not a thing via dedicated services.
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> Is lag switching a thing? I thought dedicated servers eliminated that. And what the holy hell is a catfish in terms of Halo?
Well any time they’re losing, suddenly they start lagging around so much they become incredibly hard to hit and can basically just walk the ball in through a storm of hammers.
We call him a catfish because he makes almost all his accounts have feminin names, claims to be a girl, and if anyone falls for it…
I used to block dedicated parties so I wouldn’t match them anymore as well as smurfs and betrayers. I would love if it was still around, but if we’re blocking people then it would be safe to assume that other people are as well. Eventually, none of those people will be able to find a game or they’ll only match people way out of their skill range which screws up matchmaking and that wouldn’t be fair to them or those people. The only thing we can hope for is that they make is so smurfs are detected faster and we have a better matching system.
From what I recall, smurfing itself isn’t actually against the rules. When you run with a smurf to match lower ranks, or intentionally throw games to keep your rank low is when it becomes unsporting behaviour at least.
And I’ll clarify it may not be actual “lag switching.” We call it that for ease as the guy is manipulating his own network connection in order to gain an advantage.