As a loyal Call of Duty for Xbox user (got my first xbox in 2007 and MW the day it came out. Currently my household runs 4 Xbox 360’s. There is one for my wife, my son, my daughter and myself. We have exceptional internet 105/50. Ping is under 20ms. Sometimes single digits if I check servers less than 100 miles from my house. I even purchased DSL so that my kids have their own connection.
My wife and I play a lot. Honestly MW3 could be a great game. In fact so many people overlook the minor issues because they want it to be a great game. The fact of the matter is like SO MANY others, the unacceptable delays, lag, spawn and hit detection issues are slowly making it unplayable. I have overlooked the problems as they were there from the start in the hopes that they would fix/reduce the issues. I do not care about my KDR as long as I am having fun. The game is spiraling down the drain as it progressively becomes less and less fun. I don’t care about quick scoping, kill streaks, deathstreaks camping, newb tubes, under/overpowered guns, spawn camping, spawn trapping etc. I do care that I have a .5-2 second delay between my Xbox and the rest of the group.
I regularly get host as mentioned before, I have an excellent connection. This of course renders me as the team bullet catcher. Since I play predominately Domination, my deaths don’t necessarily hurt the team. Even so it does supply the opposing team with kill streaks. If I happen to not be host, I alternate between 3 and 4 bar connections. Anyway, I think most understand what I am speaking of as I have read similar stories.
I do not play HALO. Just not for me. My son does play though. I decided to watch him. On DSL 7/1 with 88ms ping (avg) HALO flows perfect. Not once did I see anything that made me or my son think “Lag.”. I made him use my connection (much faster) and the results were the same. No apparent issues. WHY IS THAT?
I understand that you can’t utilize the IP of HALO (intellectual property for you kids out there) net code. But you can’t tell me that it hasn’t been looked at or that you can’t at least give it a look. Furthermore, and maybe it’s me and my set up. I honestly never looked for a solution to the issues in MW2 or BLOPS as I suffered much less latency related issues, but I had a much slower connection when I played MW2. Same set up in house except the modem (non docsys 3). My wife played on her Xbox, I played on mine and the kids played on theirs. Cable internet was 15/3 and as memory serves ping was around 20-40ms. MW2 was flawless 90% of the time with at least 3 Xbox’s playing and computers being used. WHY or rather did the netcode get changed from MW2 to something different in MW3? How difficult would it be to utilize that netcode? I would take a day having the system down to see if it would fix the problems.
Also from my days as a PC gamer, I had a ping monitor that showed me connection quality. WHY can’t that be implemented instead of the non realistic bar system. Something that could show in the lobby, peoples ping times as well as during the game. It does not have to be real time either. Say an every 10-20 second snap shot that give a continuous reading in the corner of the screen. And why can’t there be something to sync the different pings (heck, maybe there already is) or take an average of the best 3-5.
Again, I want to like this game. I have invested a substantial amount of money and time into this game. Maybe it’s a moot point as IW and sledgehammer are only under obligation to keep content updates and keep the game cheat free. And on that note kudos! I have not seen or felt I was being exploited against by other players that I couldn’t attribute to lag. Anyway, if it is all for nothing, I at least got to vent on a public forum in some self gratifying masturbatory function. Do I expect anything to happen from my post? Not really. I just hope you guys can get it better. I don’t expect 100%. Just the 90% I got from the last two games. If you folks can do that, you will have a great game.
Regards.
