As far as hosting goes, I don't so much suffer from more lag comp BS or being inst-killed (I get that anyway!) it's the frame rate drops when people join mid-game that kill me.
If you play a game type where people often rage quit and your host, as new players join the frame rate stutters. I PM'd Ghandi and he said the following.
"Whenever a new player not joins the game there is a wealth of game state information that needs to be sent to the joining player. If many people joins simultaneously, such as a large party this is magnified by the number of players joining. We are constantly looking at ways to optimize this transfer, however, if host this will spike CPU utilizationand outbound bandwidth to some degree. The PS3 has less spare CPU headroom than the 360 in MW3 in high player count modes such as Infection and Groundwar. If you concentrate on more standard modes such as TDM the problem shouldn't be as evident. We are also working on a couple of optimizations that while largely forward looking we'll release for MW3 if they test well. One reduces PS3 host CPU overhead in general and the second reduces host upstream bandwidth requirement on PS3 by a significant amount.
Cheers,
G IH A IN ID II"
It was good to get a response, but basically I read that as "the game is not properly optimised for PS3, there may be a fix, there may not". I mostly play standard FFA with only 8 players and the problem is still there as much as in any game type (apart from infected - no one rage quits or joins mid-game because everyone wins!)
Incidentally, I'm disappointed with the collection 1 maps, purely because the frame rate is **** on them. Liberation runs like Jungle did on Black Ops, chug chug chug. Gives me a headache.
Please Devs - less graphics, more 60FPS. Cheers.
