I live in a highly cod populated region, when I get into a < 50 lobby the game plays flawlessly (next to some hosting issues). I can get into these lobbies, it just takes me a few times to search and repeat (thus the local only option I am asking for). The more 4 bar players a lobby has, the better it's in sync, the better it runs generally, unless the host does some stupid shi-t to his net.

Btw are they really buffing the models ohk constancy? Would be awesome. When is this? Next patch? Or already done in hot fix?

G IH A IN ID II wrote:

 

I've not disappeared. We've been extremely busy analyzing data we've been collecting from the live game and writing tools that visualize this. Through this process we've uncovered an issue with our regional matchmaking that will affect people who lie on regional boundaries. This explains a lot of the issues with matchmaking between different countries. A fix for this is in the works. Depending on how quickly this is remedied on the code side we may deploy a temporary stage one hot-fix that will improve the situation as a first step before the final full solution is ready to deploy.

 

We have also been discussing how to improve matchmaking between Elite Premium members and owners of DLC with Activision. Expect news of how we are going to address this soon.

 

As I've mentioned before the degree of latency/lag is directly affected by the quality of the session you are placed in so we hope to see major improvements for many when these solutions are deployed. The goal is to roll these out as soon as possible.

 

Finally, we have been scrutinizing all the changes made to the network code for MW3. The goal of smoothing the visual representation of onscreen movement of combatants may have exacerbated client/server view discrepancy so this is another area people are looking into.

 

Cheers,

 

G IH A IN ID II

Wow, that's great news, given that these matchmaking problems are there since you first patched the game to get rid of "real" regional matchmaking. At the same time it got very obvious that there is a huge discrepancy between what diffrent clients experienced on their screens. This issue got called many names (lag comp/1 second ahead/ predictive rendering/ sync) and got worse month by month and patch by patch. Also the problem of playerbase fragmentation is an issue since the first content drop. Shouldn't have someone thought of this problem before even establishing Elite memberships vs. DLC vs. people who are not going to buy this game twice as long as it doesn't run as fine as an IW titles used to run?

No it makes no sense because the things we are asking for are things we have had for a long time and the entire community is fine with them.  The largest audience is fine with what we are asking for.  And most people don't even notice the difference.

Issue 2 only applies to the striker and aa12 because they are capable of producing 2112 and 3200 hitscans per minute respectively.  But the spas ksg and 1887 can only produce 520 hitscans per minute or less.  That is slower than the m60 by 80 rpm.  The pumps do not have any impact on gameplay due to hitscan issues.

I have noticed frame rate drops a lot since the latest TU as well.

Steve;

Check your PMs. Cheers.