So much lag now..

Games Other Halo
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Why?

I play this game on and off but recently after all these random updates they’ve been doing almost every game has lag in it… Nothing with my connection as that’s fine and I see others on here complaining about the lag as well.

What happened? It was never this bad and I could play a few games without any.

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> Why?
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> I play this game on and off but recently after all these random updates they’ve been doing almost every game has lag in it… Nothing with my connection as that’s fine and I see others on here complaining about the lag as well.
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> What happened? It was never this bad and I could play a few games without any.

You are not alone. It’s how the host is being selected, no best connection and that they have no regional location filters either.

https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2567780_Is-Halo-4-s-Netcode-Bogging-Down.aspx#post2567780

https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2577126_RIP-BTB.aspx#post2577126

Like 370,000 other players (dropped from 400,00 to 30,00 players per day)

http://halocharts.com/2012/chart/dailypeakpopulation/all

we just gave up because of the lag. I went back to playing Halo Reach for Multiplayer (25,000 to 28,000 people playing per day) and it simply doesn’t Lag like H4 does.

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And this is why posts that say “as long as there are enough people online for me to play against I don’t care about population” make me laugh.

People with perfectly fine connections get lag because halo 4 uses a console to console host system. Your connection is largely irrelevant depending on the host. Still important, but not as much.

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> And this is why posts that say “as long as there are enough people online for me to play against I don’t care about population” make me laugh.

I put up with the lag fest that is Crysis 2 on the Xbox for 2 years and that statement held true the entire time.

> People with perfectly fine connections get lag because halo 4 uses a console to console host system. Your connection is largely irrelevant depending on the host. Still important, but not as much.

The reason why people with perfectly fine connections get lag is thanks to the host doing bandwidth heavy tasks (YouTube, BitTorrent, Netflix etc) on their connection. I blame the host selection and the game not changing hosts frequently enough mid-game. There is a reason Halo: Reach did this.