Chairman Meow wrote:

 

I do not care about my K/D, nor my W/L.

So how do you define skill? Are all players of equal skill?

G IH A IN ID II

G IH A IN ID II wrote:

 

Chairman Meow wrote:

 

I do not care about my K/D, nor my W/L.

So how do you define skill? Are all players of equal skill?

 

G IH A IN ID II

Assume two players in a no-lag environment, are using identical set-ups. Even then, that's not a great indicator because people can get lucky.

To me, you simply cannot equate skill with Call of Duty. There's too much that randomly influences how people win. For instance (not trying to draw you into the discussion), I can take a shotgun (Let's say the Spas-12) and fire point blank at someone. Sometimes I'll get a kill, sometimes I'll get a hit marker, and other times I'll get nothing and see the killcam showed me not firing at all.

If we can take lag and bad spawns out of the equation, then I would put forth that you can define skill as two players using identical set-ups, and the one who can most consistently pull a win in a decisive fashion (IE not 20-19 or 20-18, but like 20-13) could be considered the more skilled. But that's purely in relation to killing.

If you factor in Objective game modes, then there's other things to consider.

Here is something I have noticed: G IH A IN ID II

Attempt 1:

Testing matches 98% - 0/50 good games

Finding games <50ms ping

Attempt 2:

Testing matches 98% - 0/26 good games

Finding games <75ms ping

Attempt 3:

Testing matches 98% - 0/26 good games

Finding games <100ms ping

Attempt 4:

Testing matches 98% - 2/20 good games

Finding games <125ms ping

Attempt 5:

Testing matches 98% - 5/15 good games

Finding games <150ms ping

My NAT Type is Open, but a lot of the times I can not get into any games under Attempt 4 or 5 because they are full or whatever reason.

Attempt 6:

Testing matches 98% - 12/31 good games

Searching for available games(Notice no ping comparison).

During attempt 6 I get in, but when I play in matches that attempt 6 gives me I am at a huge disadvantage. I will get killed first even if I aim first and it's very unstable. I am guessing it's because it just threw me into a random game available due to failing to get into any matches during or below attempt 5. This is where my reasoning of why changing the intervals to 25ms from MW2's 10ms was a bad idea. I only get 2 attempts to get into a match under my ping, where as in MW2 I had 4 attempts, and almost always 90% I get into them before being randomly put into matches where people have a much faster ping then me in MW2. So in MW3 I am at a huge disadvantage. That interval change alone is screwing with the sync of ping between players and the host. You said you were looking at MW2 netcode and this is one of the things you touched that was not broken. I understand not putting a player in a 50ms lobby if he has 120ms ping, but reducing the intervals and attempts at which we can be put in a game with a ping between players similar to ours is what is screwing with things. In MW3 I have to constantly redo the search just to get into a <150ms ping match. Most players don't even watch the ping count attempt so they don't even know they are getting put into random lobbies on attempt 6 or above because they don't know any better. I must say the netcode dev of MW2 was pretty smart to realize this. The fact that you changed it makes no sense. You speed up the match finding process, only to make us end up searching more anyway, and you make lag worse. Just go back to MW2 please, that was done right. Don't mess with with what's not broken. Thank You!

Just a simple change as well, should not take more than a month to go back to the 10ms intervals. Please send this to the MP team, or explain why the intervals are not an issue, if my reasoning is right, then you know what must be done.

Ok I have a question about Shotguns but it doesn't have to do with them being unbalanced or overpowered yada yada. For the past month or so (roughly) I have noticed that when I come up against a shotgun user and they begin firing the screen freezes they blast I'm dead. Something is definitely wrong, these are on games where my ping is low and connection to host is well... now I know it's not lag compensation cause I can tell a difference. It seems like a frame issue or something? Don't know, just wondering what's up because it's instant death no matter what.

Elricco wrote:

 

G IH A IN ID II wrote:

 

Chairman Meow wrote:

 

I do not care about my K/D, nor my W/L.

So how do you define skill? Are all players of equal skill?

 

G IH A IN ID II

 

I am getting bored of this ridiculous debate, so many questions without answer, ok i give up...it's pathetic, and this game too, my last post tchao ! aufwiedersehen ! astalavista ! au revoir !

I'm sorry to see you leave Elricco. Thanks for the dialogue.

Cheers,

G IH A IN ID II