Great idea, but will most likely not happen lol

You don't need an icon..... When your gameplay stutters like a 10 year old Gareth Gates then you know you're HOST

The player at the top of the lobby once the scores are at 0 is host. For team games it's the person at the top of 1 of the 2 teams so 50/50 guess there.

Great idea having the icon.

I think they deliberately made it so you can't figure out if you're host or not because they knew about the lag issues before release and knew that it's the worst for the host.

See how they stopped talking about the lag issues altogether. They won't answer any questions about it and they've removed it from the list of upcoming fixes. They're trying to sweep it under the rug.

Regards,

Someone who waited for a patch for MW2 for over 9 months.

Reason I say no to this idea is because this would cause people to constantly gang up on the host. People would be yelling and screaming for him to leave the lobby. Or he would just leave and mess someone's great game up then that person with the good game would more than likely send the host bad messages.

robbierocket wrote:

 

Please post here if you think the host of a lobby should be marked with an icon.

 

To be honest, every single person should respond with yes, simply because it's no secret anyway, you can find out by quitting or sometimes by a combination of factors, so being able to to see by virtue of an icon is simply being "honest and forward" about it.

 

And in advance of someone saying:

 

"No, screw that, there will be no end to host migrations as people quit out when they realise they are host and this will happen for the entire match",

 

I reply:

 

Then what you are implying is that the game (or each match) depends upon a succession of people NOT KNOWING they are disadvantaged for a period until they realise and the lack of realisation is passed on to the next person OR the game depends upon someone suffering for the sake of the entire lobby.

 

This is wrong. Delaying the truth here to patchwork some shoddy matchmaking/host lag compensation development issues is not a solution. It barely works anyway.

On the sureface... it seems like an innocuous request.

I know I would like to know who the host is.

... but...

... the "host" doesn't deserve the grief that would come with it. They didn't choose to be host.

Im with rankismet here. I would like to know, but it would cause problems. Ppl would blame the host, the host would blame lag comp. It would be just one more "excuse" ppl would use for a bad game.

I already know when I’m host. I believe the count down starts at a higher number than normal, then immediately goes to 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. In any case I gave up on hosting a long time ago (play moderate now). It’s just too shocky experience, for big parts the frame rate is horrible and you get fkced over too much shooting blanks “occasionally” do to over the top lag compensation, especially with 3 bar players joining..

It find hosting on black ops fun, It should at least get at that level where you don’t get handicapped so much.

Host icon = Yes.

HELL YES!!! I am getting screwed. Being chosen to host matches 8 out of 10 games. It sucks. Everybody should change their clan tag to HOST. F*** BEING THE HOST!!!!