Add me to the list. This has been a problem for me ever since I switched to Xbox and has affected me on MW2 and Black Ops but things have just gotten a whole lot worse with MW3. The Lag Compensation in this game is a joke!!!
I can fully understand the need to create game that enables people with a lesser connection to compete but giving them a massive advantage NO!!!
The matchmaking system tries to match people with similar pings, so why do we even need Lag Compensation anyway. The big problem with lag compensation is that people can deliberately nerf their network connection to gain an advantage... and don't even get me started on the lag switches.
Lag compensation use interpolation, extrapolation and rewind mechanics to try and make the game fair, from who shot first scenario but what about the problem where I didn't even see the other guy come around the corner because his upstream is so slow I didn't get the message yet. Lag Compensation fails because whatever advantage I might get from having a fast connection is lost to the fact the I always get a delay in seeing the guy with the slow connection. In fact most internet connections are asymmetric and the upstream is far slower than the downstream, so in fact even without lag compensation, it could be argued that from a who saw whom first perspective, the person with the slower connection has the advantage.
Simply put, lag compensation can never make an FPS fair, so they need to just take it out, turn it down or limit its effects. If they don't they might just find no-one left playing the game who has a decent connection, which would mean you would only get fools with their Sprint 3G connection hosting games.
