Another thing I forgot to mention ... simply leaving a match substantially increases the odds of being dropped right back into the same lobby. By dashboarding, I think (don't quote me on this) the console's cache clears. In any case, when I back out and search for another match, too often I get dropped back into the lobby I just left. When I dashboard, I can't recall that ever happening.

edit - btw, not only do my deaths not count, nor do my kills. More importantly for me, I basically play to complete challenges. It isn't cool to complete a big challenge within the first few kills then to start lagging like no one's business (but only when you happen to be shooting at a specific opponent) and then decide to DB out of a match.

It works both ways.

nuttin2say wrote:

 

If I dashboard and it does not affect you, why do you care if I dashboard? I understand your frustration with people that DB as host ... but if someone leaves a match, who cares how they left?

 

This paragraph here is the fundamental difference between right and wrong or at the very least a big part of that...

The OP came on here and was very provocative in the way he bragged about HOST DASHBOARDING which prematurely ends everyone's game...

Nobody can condone that sort of behaviour...

Nuttin2say has his own reasons for Dashboarding and he does not brag about his KDR or WLR etcetera. Also he does not affect anyone else's stats when he occasionally does it...

Your average Dashboarder on the other hand drops out of games specifically to manipulate their own stats and make them look better. They will then proceed to brag about their stats and rag on other players for having worse stats than their falsified ones...

This is where it all goes pear shaped...

Jus_Call_me_J has a hilarious bee in his bonnet about dashboarders, he's one of the selfish ones who demand hosts suffer host lag, and rewind time lag compensation for his own benefit. Clearly someone who has never, or very infrequently pulls host and therefore opinions on host lag are invalid.

His very narrow minded and blinkered view that all dashboarders do it to improve their stats, whilst true in some instances where players, maybe of "pro" or "competetive" status need to keep their high KD I dunno, to stay in some random irrelevant league or competition, is not true of at least half of the people that do it.

My reasoning for dashboarding is in protest against the way lag compensation has progressed MW2 it wasn't noticable at all, then Treyarch came along and completely ruined IW's hard work on keeping the host lag balanced. I refuse to have negative gameplay recorded on my account which is downright unfair because of something out of my control. When i'm not host, i'll go negative and finish the game not an issue - so arguements that it's to improve stats are completely invalid, and no matter what anyone says, will stay invald (don't get too mad J)

If i'm host i'll give it a minute or 2 to see how the games running, as there are instances when pulling host has no effect - in the rare occasion you get 12 players in a lobby that are fairly close to your location. If I can avoid dashboarding I will, but i'd say out of 100 times I pull host, at least 50 will be dashboarded. Unfortunate, unfair but I don't care. At the end of the day most people who never pull host are too selfish to admit there's a problem, and/or that hosts should suffer, complete the game whilst they have a good game, lag free. That is part of the protest, and the reason I will dashboard.

I Dashboard in 98% of my matches because of noobs, lag or any unfair deaths such as being spawn killed