Something I'd like to add, and this is purely from MY OBSERVATIONS, so take it with a grain of salt. But this is how it appears from my viewpoint. I'm primarily a hardcore mode player, have been since COD 4. I'm not here to discuss the core vs hardcore thing, so please don't bring that into the debate. But honestly this is where I notice these things the most, primarily because you die in one bullet. Many times I've appeared to have fired first in a gun fight, only to drop after my opponent apparently was faster than I. I'm open to being outplayed, not saying that isn't a factor. But frequently when I die either in the scenario just mentioned, or when trying to take cover, or any of the other countless scenarios that happen in this game, the player who I die to is consistently on a 3-Bar. Now I'm only taking into account deaths that I think are questionable, and this is through constantly checking connections throughout the game. These people don't just randomly drop to 3-Bars, they are on those connections the entire time. And as stated, I'm almost always on a 4 Bar. Funny thing is, when I'm on a 3 Bar connection, I can't win a gun fight to save my life. I'm behind everyone still. I don't seem to understand this. 4-Bar, I'm behind, 3-Bar I'm behind. The people I consistently lose to are on 3-Bar connections, and sometimes less. Now like I said, this is purely from my observational standpoint, but I have been checking this for quite some time now and I can tell you that is it almost always the same case. And (for me at least) the same things happen in core mode, so it's not just confined to hardcore. I don't know what the problem is, how I can fix it, or what I can do.
