t-fibby wrote:
Disconnected_ wrote:
teanah wrote:
New networking code improvements to be initially rolled out in the Domination playlist October 10th, mid-morning with more playlists to come
Having tried a few Domination games just now I really hope it's not mid-morning yet.
My thoughts exactly.
I played several games of TDM, KC, and DOM after the latest patch. All games DLC disabled so that i could get into 50ms ping lobbies which i cannot get if the DLC is enabled. Out of those i had by far the worst experience on DOM, which is supposed to have some improvements now. And out of those 3, according to the game DOM has the second highest pool of players online now (PS3), but it ran worse than KC which has 1/2 of the player pool.
I got one (1) good game in terms of connectivity where i could actually rush and win CQB gun fights and not feel handicapped by lag, that was a rare TDM lobby where all had a 4 bar connection. On DOM, i was mostly on a 4 bar against 3 bars and usually in a 50ms lobby, which at it's worse i had to shoot 26 rounds from an ACR standing behind an enemy at a close distance and did not miss a single shot, or shoot 3 times point blank range all shots registering with a USAS-12 that had damage on it. On both examples i was on a 4 bar and the opponent on 3, and there were no lag spikes (atleast not on my screen).
It seems that i can get more easily into a 50ms ping lobby now, which is a good thing, but unfortunately the matchmaking has not improved because these lobbies still have guys with a 2 bar in them. And usually anything between 1/2 to 2/3 of the lobby has a 3 bar while i have 4, and as usual everyone of those guys has the jump on me thanks to lag compensation. And i intentationally backed out several times to see if i was hosting, and this happened without me being the host.
I tried monitoring lag spikes when someone connected to a match, and did not notice any so that looks like an improvement.
For some reason i don't seem to get host that often now, or just did not notice it that well because the game ran smoothly even while hosting which was not the case earlier (you could clearly notice that you had host even without backing out thanks to dropping framerates etc), maybe that was a lucky break or it has something to do with the lag spikes fix because there was nothing mentioned on update notes regarding hosting. However, when i had host the lag compensation situation was same as before where every opponent was like a full second ahead.
I take the hosting part back, it's just as awful as it was before now that i just tried playing on time of day when there are not that many people online in my region and you more likely to be matched up with people with lesser connections. Framerate drops, disadvantageous position due to lag comp, lag spikes when someone connects mid match etc., all the usual BS..
Hosting in this game is a joke, and so is the matchmaking. It's funny how you can hop on to MW2 that usually has 1/5 or 1/10 of total players online depending on the time of day compared to MW3, i have all the DLC on that game as well so the pool of players i will be matched against much be significantly smaller compared to playing for example TDM on MW3 with DLC disabled, and i will still have a much better experience. Obviously not as good as it was when the game was new and popular, but still a good one compared to this crap. Same goes for CoD4.
