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Re: Fix for Host Problems in MW3 (For Consoles)

donotreply@activision.com — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:18:20 GMT

I so know this all to well. It infuriates me!!! I have to shoot enemies in the head 3 times meanwhile they are shooting me around corners and backing me up to a position I was nowhere close to when it decided I was dead. BO minimaps will even bounce back and forth between my view and theirs. When i respawn my gun is pointing up in the air too lol. RRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Re: Fix for Host Problems in MW3 (For Consoles)

donotreply@activision.com — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:13:00 GMT

how do I know if my ports are forwarded?

Re: Fix for Host Problems in MW3 (For Consoles)

donotreply@activision.com — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:11:21 GMT

I dont think it sifts thru anything or comes up with that info at all. it is merely a command it carries out regardless what is staring back at it. I know because it still makes me host even tho half the time the game doesnt finish because it loses connection to me. The reality of it is if you have the mammoth bandwidth youre carrying the load. Why cant the people who caused this problem in the first place write software that accomodates all players. If xbox live measures bandwidth with determining the host your program should rely on bandwidth not ping!!!! Now that I know it is just me and other comcast users dealing with this BS I want my money back. I was thinking everybody had to deal with this crap but thats obviously not the case!!!

Seriously...so many things about this game make me mad why even play it? Fix it before we find other ways to spend our money!

Re: Do I have lag??

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 23:55:27 GMT

I too have this same issue. It constantly makes me host. Sometimes it will migrate to me mid game and get lost in transmission. Not sure if this is a symptom of an underlying issue or not so I wanted to throw it out there.

For me, its BO that lags til I nag. MW3 lags too but I play it so much less I dont even care. Im hoping by telling you guys the issues Ive noticed, that maybe you can pinpoint my problem. I am a noob to xbox games, xbox live and video gaming in general. Black ops is my first and only love and I just play MW# when too frustrated to play BO from the nag lag. I havent played it every day for 2 yrs straight like I have BO so I can chalk it up to me just sucking at the game in general rather than seeing red cuz I know Im getting robbed each and every game I play.

If Im playing Zombies, guaranteed Im the host. It will migrate hosts and boot us all out of the room the first couple of tries. Its annoying and I am not into 3 hr games of zombies so I have pissed off many people by ending the match early. Out of the 100's of times Ive played zombies, I only know of two times I left a zombies match early without ending the game.

I also notice that zombies will tell me its locking in bets like it thinks its sticks n stones or gungame on the multiplayer side. And when I play those games, they too will say migrating hosts but doesnt boot every player out the room. I love playing these two games but they are very challenging. Compensating for the lag is proved close to impossible since it seems my connection is on a roller coaster ride the whole time. I can tell when Im actually in sync with the game because i kick some serious ass. This is what fuels my addiction to BO. However, the other 90% just pisses me off beyond recognition.

I am assuming since it chooses me as host all the time that it only sees that i am capable of carrying the load, it doesnt check to see that I have the bandwidth available to do so at all times. So is there a way to convince it I have less bandwidth to start or make it check for available bandwidth not total bandwidth possible?

Are there any system settings or router settings I can tweak to accomplish this task?

Whoever said the killcam isnt an indication of lag is full of it too. Because it is exactly what the game has recorded. If you go to theatre you will see this. I have watched so much theatre thinking I was going to be able to show people what I have been dealing with in terms of the connection/host BS only to find out in order for me to do this, I have to use an outside video source because watching the playback, I just appear to suck and never appear to be the one intiating gunfire it appears as me shooting back at them after they initiated gunfire on me. Unfortunately, I cant capture this stuff with an outside source either because its too fuzzy, or or too something to see as clear as the playback.

I was really hoping the next BO would played on xbox live servers rather than the peer to peer. That is the very problem. xbox checks for bandwidth but callofduty relies on ping. Cant you change the programming so us comcast customers with 30+ MBPS dont get stuck being host when our ping is insufficient to play with if were hosting.

The information coming in is on spot....its my info going out that is drunk and tripped up. You cannot imagine how much time and money I have put into trying to make my gaming experience a positive one. It because of this nightmare I have had to settle for being second best...which does not go over well. Why cant you make this **** fair to all of us? I downgraded to the 15MBps internet thinking that would help but it has only made matters worse. Of course that was after I had sunk a ton of money into modems routers, wires, you name it...I did it. I had comcast out replacing my coax and costing me ungodly amounts of money too.

If you havent come up with a solution to this problem by the time the nect COD comes out this will be the end of my love affair with video games. A couple moms playing goes a long ways too so you are slitting your own throats by not addressing this issue. Moms are what pay your salaries. If moms not happy, she aint spending and if she aint spending $$ youre not getting paid if youre not getting paid nobody plays. help a mom out please

Re: Do I have lag??

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 23:54:51 GMT

Are there any system settings or router settings I can tweak to accomplish this task?