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Re: New Clan! We like TERRIBLE players! 1.0KD or less! Anyone can join!

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 02:02:57 GMT

it won't be possible to flip between the two right now without another founder, if I leave the clan they can't participate, plus when you are in the middle of an operation elite becomes extremely slow, so for 3 hour competitions sometimes it takes 2 hours just to change clans, eventually I may have to buy another founder card so I can flip in and out of clans with no problems.

I'll apply to your clan with one of my other accounts, I have several as well, that way I can help you out and my clan too.

the clan is still open for anyone that wants to join, I will approve your application

This is for both the XBox 360 & PS3, I have founders on both and sign up for all the ops and challenges including beta.

Search for the i_Die_a_Lot clan on either console to apply and get approved today!

New Clan! We like TERRIBLE players! 1.0KD or less! Anyone can join!

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Founders: TinyLittleTimmy, NO_LAG_SWITCHES

Recruiting begins today! (and never ends)

(anybody can join and you can invite whoever you want)

SEARCH FOR i_Die_a_Lot on PS3, XBox 360, or BOTH!

Apply and you're in!

Nobody will be turned down!

Campers welcome! Trollers too!

Snipers join us! Shotguns approved!

Knife only, spray & pray, run & gun, throw & go, we want you!

The more ages, races, genders, countries & languages the better!

Forums are now up and open to everyone!

http://idie-clan.proboards.com/

No tryouts! No meetings! No requirements!

Just say the word and you're in!

We won't kick anyone from the clan ever!

The iDie Clan Lives Forever!

Re: New Clan! We like TERRIBLE players! 1.0KD or less! Anyone can join!

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:12:36 GMT

What's your offer?

Re: New Clan! We like TERRIBLE players! 1.0KD or less! Anyone can join!

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 21:38:00 GMT

Signed up for clan ops Kill Confirmed, I've got premium for anybody that wants in, send me the application in elite and I'll approve you, I don't care if you have premium, anyone can join.

Re: IDEA for Game mode based on Ammo (Making each bullet in a mag matter)

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:46:43 GMT

in theory it would work but I just kill myself to get more ammo, often it is much faster than a reload

plus hit detection is horrible just imagine, in real life you could lay down cover fire with an LMG to keep people away from heavy fire but in CoD if you fire at a doorway to stop anyone from coming through they just laugh, look for the bullet's direction to see where you are, then poof pop out that same door in the middle of all those rounds shoot you once with their mk, sniper, or shotgun and your dead. heck you run up with rapid fire stick you gun into their body empty the 40 round clip and only get 4-5 hitmarkers, making rounds count would be torture without also improving hit detection by some 10 fold.

Re: (mw3) ps3 connection compared to xbox connection? is 1 better?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:53:12 GMT

Xbox, I've got several copies, several of both consoles, and founder, xbox uses smaller packets so they tend to go faster depending on your router settings, hit detection is awesome, and fire buttons are easier to mash, PS3 is ridiculously hard but I like a challenge and stay there simply because it appears to have less cheaters.

Re: Make capturing/ taking Ballistic Vest 4x Faster

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:34:52 GMT

sure, but also let enemies take your vests just like they can steal your care packages, most people don't waste their time with vests, they all say the same thing, either way I'll still die instantly, plus we all hate how a vest makes your screen yellow, that's dumb, a vest should work just like blast shield but only for 1-2 hit markers, yellow sun glasses should be the only thing that makes your screen yellow, and if you get a nuke/moab the everbody should die and come back as zombies the next spawn, and founders should get to play as Santa Claus class or Frosty the Snow Man class come Christmas LOL.

Re: Why are these maps so central focused?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:19:52 GMT

yeah they should make a stage called "Level Plains" where you can see everybody all the time but way off in the distance with just one big tree in the middle to block snipers, and another stage called "Foggy Smokey Smog" where nobody can ever see anybody coming from any direction, except on radar, you just have to guess by the sounds or see where the fog lights up as they shoot. That way we could choose to play with or without all that clutter.

Re: Why are these maps so central focused?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:04:10 GMT

It's not so bad on ground war, sometimes you can just circle c's around and back to get the flank, and the wonderful thing is how the spawn system works you can literally sprint around the ouside, the turn back around to find the enemies spawn right behind you looking straight to the center, you will get the flank on them all over again, I kept flanking them in that big orange leaf park with my shotgun running circles around the outside edge, I know they were pissed as they all picked assault or sniper then went prone slow scoped the center, like shooting fish in a barrel.

Re: Lag Compensation: Video Discussion

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:44:45 GMT

and yes maccabi, I agree, and do I see your point, changing your in game speed AFTER THE GAME BEGINS (as suggested by the comments below that youtube video) THAT IS A LAG SWITCH, it is against the rules, but playing with a poor internet connection from the beginning to the end, this is obviously not against any rule, it is even supported, otherwise there would be no need for strict, moderate, open nor lobby searches by milliseconds. I set my router and leave it like that always, netflix, updates, speed tests, from power on to power off, and I choose to play in a moderate lobby, if you choose to have a cheap crappy connection all the time that is your choice to make obviously, but switching your connection around after the game begins to screw everybody else, that's what screws us all up.

I'm just trying to get my game back the way it was before I upgraded my internet plan, when I just had regular old DSL modem and omni wireless at 60% signal and got strict the game was fine, but now that I've run quad shield cat6e gig routers gold terminals everywhere to improve my black ops gaming (to get host) my mw3 open became impossible to play because I either get slapped with tons of lag comp or get host, but if I take my PS3 over to my other house where I've still got crappy wireless DSL concrete walls then Mw3 is fine, even easy, but blops then sucks.

Re: Lag Compensation: Video Discussion

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:03:11 GMT

Well that's something we can both agree upon, you wouldn't get matched up with lagged players if they stopped adding delay to your game to give them an advantage just because when the speed test was performed it determined their connection had a delay but yours did not, speeds are constantly changing on shared internet lines, to resolve both our complaints 20ms players should never be forced into a lobby with 260ms players, and if your delay changes in the middle of a game you should simply get kicked. (response time tests at every spawn, every kill, every objective, plus random)

(I never added delay to the BBS, just reduced delay if you read it correctly, but I did load test, called all my friends up and asked them to get on at the same time. The same for SQL load, we either call up the test clients and have them all make entries at the same time, then report problems, or the programmers run a website load test with simulated users in visual studios, they enter the number of users to simulate, record some website transactions, then click run, sessions start locking up at anywhere from 30 to 1050 per second depending on the hardware/programming. Then we just pick a few queries/tables to optimize/index and that fixes everything.)

A lag switch pauses all the other players from being able to do anything when the host pushes the button, that is very different from simply giving yourself slow relay speeds all the time, doing that just makes your ping slow all the time, so we don't get penalized with lag compensation, instead our games will be synced with everybody else that has a slow connection (in otherwords we get penalized with a real time delay instead of a fake one) and we should get paired with other players just like us that have a bad connection, if the lobby system worked correctly.

The problem is when there is 1 person in the lobby with a 250ms lag everybody else gets about 200ms lag added to their game, everybody except the 1 person that was lagging during the speed test, then if his connection improves that 1 person gets a full 200ms advantage against all the other players.

That's what really pisses me off, seeing at the end of the game that the people in 1st, 2nd, 3rd place have a red or yellow bar when they shouldn't even be in the same lobby with us. Last night with 260ms total delay I still got 4 green bars, all the other players had green, but I still came in 2nd place to the only guy that had 1 red bar. So if we all had green in a 150ms lobby on moderate, how much net delay did he actually have to get 1 red bar? This is crazy, if this were mw2 I would suspect a lag switch, but with the lobby system so screwed up and lag comp changing the bars around there is no telling, the truth is he should have never been allowed to stay in our lobby in the first place.

Re: Lag Compensation: Video Discussion

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:31:01 GMT

Clearly changing your modem or router settings is ok, but putting a Linux box between the router and console, that's going a bit too far for me (even though I've got 5 collecting dust up on my shelf here, I'd never go that far) plus if I catch anyone lag switching, I do report them, but I don't see why you can't simply cut lag switchers immediately down to strict for 24 hours by their psn id, obviously they had a 100% packet loss, a huge delay, are having connection issues, and should not get to play an 'open' lobby as host (neither should 250ms delay) but this doesn't appear to ever happen, once open always open, no matter how badly the connection gets always search from 50-75-100-125, why? If you know they've got 250ms delay drop them there first then go up.

But I like the new updates, a lot of the problems appear to have been fixed, and I get some really enjoyable games on premium (I just wish I could pick my game type there as Domination only) clearly Activision has done a huge amount of work on fixing the issue, thanks, but still in game migration from open to strict needs to be added as does a search for local games first in order to fully resolve the problem. It makes no sense to see the USA solid green at 10pm then get paired with some clan way over in China only to have them wipe them floor with your face (or the reverse) all due to lag compensation.

Re: Lag Compensation: Video Discussion

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:59:48 GMT

Re: Lag Compensation: Video Discussion

maccabi likes to make me laugh

(after I put in 20 years as an IT professional, about to retire)

I see what you mean Muffin.

Most ISPs that have experienced IT staff can add delay to your connection if you just call and ask, but I've always programmed in for less delay not more, starting with my own BBS first at 14.4 then on to Doom at 33.6, even today the only time we add delay is for load testing at work (what I'm doing now, for 2 hours against 2 SQL servers, while waiting I waste time in here using my iPhone) it's ironic that connection speeds have become so fast now days that slowing down the connection is sometimes desireable, but we had to do the same thing in gaming emulators, slow down the processor or legacy DOS games would run 30 times faster than they are supposed to go, apparently a similar plateau has now been reach here for the net, everybody's speed is being resticted so if you don't restrict yours as well then it clearly puts you at a disadvantage like trying to play pacman at 30x speed, you won't live long.

Re: Lag Compensation: Video Discussion

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:37:40 GMT

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/

http://www.mpls-experts.com/what-causes-packet-loss-on-the-internet/

https://support.activision.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/Cannot-Connect-to-Server/?l=en _US&c=Game_Title%3AAll&fs=Search&pn=1

Activision recommends we change these settings in our router, I have nothing between my router and game console, all we are doing here is running an average low quality consumer line off of our dedicated line just like your ISP does when they come to your house and ask you what plan and speed you want to buy. We wouldn't be having problems if people would follow Activision's support page, it clearly says they do not support shared connections, everybody else ignores this and plays on the cheapest shared consumer internet they can afford, we have dedicated lines so the lag average consumers worldwide put into the game by ignoring Activision's recommendations is what ruins the game for us.

It appears that 135ms 3% loss is still much better than average for gaming worldwide, thus last night I got slightly below a 1.0k/d. I'm glad to see 250ms players now get kicked, hopefully that keeps us from having to play Asian's who would get a whopping 470ms when I host a match, and Europe at 312ms, now I see how those UK players racked up all those MOABs in their youtube videos with their subpar gameplays. If you don't have a consumer internet line where you play COD then I would suggest you create one using the methods listed here in the forums.

Re: Lag Compensation: Video Discussion

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:23:42 GMT

yeah but also notice how he misses the other player dead on then hits you around the corner, I get this all the time, shoot one guy 5 times with a shotgun only to miss and hit some guy I can't even see half way across the stage and get longish shot just before the guy right in front blocking my view stabs me only to see in the kill cam he had no red whatsoever, how did he know I was there, he heard me shoot him 3 times in the back and turned around, I can't help wonder if maybe the auto aim code also contributes, such as in your video the first shot missed because auto aim detected you on the other side if the tank, but as you moved out of the way it then zoomed further back to find the other enemy, once they were dead it locked back onto you being the closest enemy thus allowing it to curve around the tank and magically kill you. With range extended mags shorgun this seems likely, plus. he could have still been running the damage glitch, some players never prestige just so they can keep it, son only 2 bullets hit and poof your dead.

what we're talking about is lag in here though, like how when dial my internet speed back to 512kbps and every bullet connects no matter how bad I aim, then I go full speed at 50meg and empty the full clip but get no hitmarkers, this is due to packets being dropped, the only bullets and shots that make it into the game are those the host shows in the killcam, if it shows you didn't shoot at all but emptied your full clip maybe even both clips then it is because the host lost or ignored all the internet packets your bullets were in, most likely because your internet is so much faster and or fragmented on their side that they get queued up and dropped.

Re: Lag Compensation: Video Discussion

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:58:25 GMT

you don't get banned for throttling, that's just plain stupid, every single player is throttled, cell phones to 3g/4g, dsl 128k up/ 1 meg down, cable 15 meg down 2 meg up, packet size auto MTU, fixed 1470 europe, 1500 usa, and on auto who knows what the MTU is, all this is throttling, it's built into every modem and router, you can't turn it off, all you can do is change it, even Activision recommends you to change your throttle in order to get the best connection for playing MW3, so to say that throttling gets yoy banned is just plain nonsense, everybody is throttled even you, I don't care even if you've got fiber fios straight to the house you still got speed limits, mtu settings, and most likely tons of packet loss, plus errors plus corrections going in both directions.

Re: Lag Compensation: Video Discussion

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:53:25 GMT

Hey OvenBakedMuffin, I went to make my video about lag compensation, saved off two gameplays, got on the next day to find the latest patch message, since the latest patch haven't got any steady results using netem delay nor packet losses nor speed throttling, resluts are now random, I'll go 30-5 then 3-48, also the net delay of 250ms packet loss was too high, got disconnect from PSN network about once every 2 minutes? Any thoughts? I lowered them to 200ms-50ms 3-5% and I could play but not like it was the day before patch, also tried 512kbps up 0 down, and changed 3074 to bulk everything else to exempt, nothing works anymore? It appears this has been quick fixed so that everyone no randomly gets assigned lag comp regardless of connection quality? Can you verify?

I also noted that some have hacked in Hollow points as a perk possibly using the elite inspect element 6 perk hack, might have been the reason for some of those 1 hit kills, but they appear to have patched that too last night. Maybe there's still some hope for all these hacks to disappear before Blops2.

Re: Lag Compensation: Video Discussion

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:47:06 GMT

I'm making my own video, most people don't realize how easy it is to run a linux server or to run linux (OpenWRT or DD-wrt) on your router, millions of others just download an HD movie while playing, or run bittorent, its so easy to lower your download ping and/or lose packets. Millions of players are doing this, even a 10 year old knows the youtube method works while the video is buffering up.

In my video I'll be showing my router settings, then a speed test on the net, then a speed test on the PS3, then my NAT as open in MW3, then every death followed by the kill cam.

Another easy change is picking a horrible MTU for large packet loss, noticed that using the 576 MTU (lowest ping) on the PS3 but 1470 on my router gets me host every first match in a lobby, as Host I start the match alone, but since my packets are so fragmented not a single player can join the match, so after 20 seconds I win by forfeit, you can even capture the flags and lay bombs, then I get dropped back into the lobby, and on things like 2vs2 you get to play the whole match alone, then win 1st place. I'll bet you can kick out all the other players just by changing the MTU as host while in a match, I've seen it happen before, but I hated to try it myself, especially to the degree it is done in your videos, if I got a nuke/moab every game no doubt it would be obvoius I was lagging for the win, I'd much rather be a Try Hard camper with a .7kd than lag on purpose every game, but the latest lag compensation code additions have made things so much worse, even if I prefire with rapid fire lmg, empty it, no hit markers, sometimes get invisible players, delayed sounds, invisible kill streaks (that my turrent sees, but for me just air), claymores on my screen but not there on the kill cam, including smoke and explosions that never were delivered from the host, in some cases it appears more like complate IP blocking, not just a few failed packets, but every single one.

Lag based cheating is now the easiest known way to cheat guaranteed in MW3.

I'm a founder so I'll make an exception and lag to make a video if it will help stop this.

I've also pre-ordered Black-Ops 2, and don't want the same glitch there.

250ms is a huge advantage, they should limit lag compensation at never more than 100ms

if you ever lag more than 100ms on any packet you should get kicked for the rest of the day to a 125ms+ laggers lobby where everyone gets to lag all day, a simple fix for a simple problem.

Re: This is Lag Compensation

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:05:34 GMT

there is no need for theater recordings, just film your gameplay after you have optimized you internet settings to get an open nat, every time you get killed let the kill cam play through completely to show what the other player saw, you can then cut out everything except your deaths up to before dying and after the end of the kill cam, just use an HD camera, film it, and upload, easy, since the kill cam is a immediatly played back theater mode recording that can't be turned off it makes the lag comp forced deaths very obvious when recorded.

Re: This is Lag Compensation

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:53:16 GMT

you think that's bad, try 4 ps3's split screened on a 3g tether with the 5th and final connection a laptop downloading a 2 hour HD video, that's an instant 80-6 KD for the whole team until the battery dies since their phone will discharge faster than it will charge up, it's annoying but funny hearing their mic "why didn't you charge up the phone first like I said, look it's dying" then bloop 8 players all fall out of the lobby or right in the middle of a match. How these people get into a 125ms and never get kicked is unreal!