Feedback: Lag, hosting and spawns

Before the update the game was unplayable. After the update the lag is hit and miss (when not hosting). On some games lag is on my side and in other games you can’t get a kill. Lag seems to vary across playlists.

Hosting just doesn’t work for me (i am on 10MB down and 1MB up) . For example, last night I was hosting a KC. I was 1 sec behind everyone with a KD of 0.2. Half way I rage quit, saw the migrating host screen.  Tried to join the same playlist. I was put back in the exact same game but this time I was not the host. I finished with a KD of 4.

Spawns!  Last night I was spawning behind my enemies! lol, good for me not good for them.

Very interesting experience tonight. I got home from a friends and figured "what the hell" i would see how it is playing. I played about 5 games, each one of them, smooth, hit markers dead on, semtex worked(?). Only once out of the 5 games was there a moment of "serious lag" ( rubber band effect ) it lasted 2 seconds and resumed.

Threw me off completely, keep in mind, this was playing at 4am MNT, when i logged in, there was a playlist update ( another tweak ) ? 50ms, very rare 75ms, backing out of 75ms and i was right back in 50ms lobbies, 22K in TDM.

Tomorrow around 6pm MNT for me will be the real test, shocking to say the least, it does not feel like the same game that has performed like **** since 1 week after release. I anticipate this holds up ( other then random moments ).

I would love nothing more then to share play style, perks, tatic ideas instead of the constant focus on shitty lag comp and connectivity issues.

Anyone else seeing these improvements?

I played some more last night, solo on ground war. I did seem to get into lobbies with mostly local players, typically low ping games, etc. The game played very well, but there still did seem to be the odd player that would be in "god mode," where they always seemed to be just a little bit ahead of me in every situation. Still, an improvement.

One thing I did notice was that nearly every time a host migration occurred, the game went to crap. Even worse than the absolute worst in the past. Entire lobby would go to 2-3 bars, sometimes worse, and it would remain that way for the rest of the game. Would get that wonderful "running through jelly" feeling, players would be horribly out of sync with each other, C4 would blow up 2 seconds late, would not get hitmarkers until halfway through a magazine. One time, after enough deaths in a row to get Juiced, I didn't get the speed boost until a full two seconds after I had spawned. Fun stuff.

Anyhow, thanks for all your hard work on this ghandi (and macc and capp). Keep the updates coming.

I would agree In mw2, as the player base is smaller, 25 ping intervals would be better there, as it would speed up the matchmaking and drop you in the same lobbies generally. However mw3 is in its prime, there should be no reason for me to play so many 3 bar pinging players in the two most popular game modes. In just a few seconds the matchmaking gets over 100 ping potentially. This is stupid.

The ping intervals are 25. Within less than a few second people now potentially get dropped in 0-100 plus ping lobbies. If they search for closer lobbies constantly, we will see less 3 bar players lagging the lobby & more local hosts.

Why would you compare it to 50 ping when those lobbies are far & few in between even in the most popular game modes, we are talking about people getting dropped in lobbies over 100 ping (people with 3 bars or lower generally) with this fast out of sync matchmaking system, we would much rather have a lobby full with people pinging < 0-60, 0-70 ping, but since the matchmaking searches for 0-100, 0-125 plus ping lobbies very fast, it’s not happing near as much as with mw2 in its prime.

If they keep the ping intervals 25, they should install a < 75 ping default lock that searches for games in this zone only constantly in the big game modes at least, as people get dropped in 100 plus ping lobbies in just a few seconds now potentially.  Which should be optional to undo for people living far away / playing irregular times.

Well I have people I sent video of them boosting to BanCandy over a month ago and nothing has been done, so that doesn't seem to do a whole lot either.  Hell I just looked at one of their elite profiles, last game infected, 28 kills of their second controller.  Still boosting away and nothing done about it.  Like I said weeks ago, IW just doesn't care about boosting.