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There was a conspiracy going around back in the MW2 days which was dubbed 'sniperfrog' and was similar to what you are describing now. Personally I think nothing of it when this happens to me every game can't be good or maybe 3arc and IW really do code some sort of handicap

you sounds like the kids in the FIFA forums saying about a "handicap"......sometimes you just play bad, it all depends on the map, who you are up against, and your own connection

It sure does feel that way.

I hate the "stealth migration" where you are doing great for like 3 min then all of a sudden you get owned and can't get hit markers.

I have actually noticed a swing in a round midway, where as, it starts and I can't miss, pistol shots across maps landing head shots to mid round and my guns start shooting marshmellows, close up in the back shots result in me dying when he/she turns around. Initally I chocked this up to lag but there a definate pattern. I have also seen matches where its clear everyone on my team including myself can't go positive but everyone on the opposite team does. While I'm sure under the perfect conditions this might be possible it seems more likely something is amiss.

Actually this game is:

CORE vs. HARDCORE

Sh.t game doesn't require skill, experience etc. If you're at the side who has the advantage you kill like in hardcore. At the other side they need to shoot a few seconds first and they need to fire double so much bullets to kill you.

Man i just came into the foruns to post this. Last night i was talkin to some buddies and they related the same stuff:  starting a game in a killing spree, like 10-1, easily done, and then all of a sudden you are being outgunned in every 1x1 fight, just like YOU was winning at the beginning of the match. And the opposite is true, starting being owned by far, like 1-10, and finishing 30-11. Same players, same teams, no host migration, just this weird thing happening.

IMHO its a kind of lag compensation, OR like crossfire-roadster say above, connection issues during the gameplay every time.

I just know i dont like it. I dont like winning `cause my lag is good, and dont like losing because of it. I like fair gamplay and thats it.

Sorry about my english, i try hard =)

sometimes I think it does, but it does not make sense at all.

A couple of days ago I was playing with a guy and he went 108/9. The next game, he did so bad he rage quitted.

I looked up his stats out of curiosity and they were terrible (just saying in context)

There is no consistency in this game.

Last night, I started a game as host for Demolition on Hijacked. I went 15-0 fricking VSAT and everything. All but one guy on the other team quit out and my team was on fire. Game loaded 5 more players on enemy team and I finished 27-23, and LOST. WTF? I just couldn't kill any of the new guys at all. It was like their time and mine were not in sync. They constantly got the advantage on me.

How can any one start 15-0 and end 27-23?

I truly believe either that ,due to the new guys being out of sync or game intervention, that we were slated to lose that match due to crushing the opposition so much at the beginning of the match. I went on to play these guys for a few more rounds, and they were no where near as "Godly" as they had been on that first match.

id like to say I know exactly what your talking about, Myself I am preciously holding onto my 1.0 and its been a struggle, I looked into all kind of scenarios from cable quality to propagation delay which is something beyond our control and the only response time I found I needed to work on is my own. I go back watch my vids as you mention same map same players in the first round I am 28-7 the second I am 9 and 18, my tactics did not change so what happened? I call it being out of sync, meaning instead of them running by me and me flanking them its reversed why who knows, the best way to win a gun fight is not get into one catching people by surprise is best. I have only been playing for a year barely past rookie, there is no telling how many score streaks I have awarded in MW3 to the enemy LOL, but if someone with an accuracy of 17-20% goes against someone at 25 - 35 % there is not much of a battle, I have had games where I hit and killed just about every thing I shot at and other games i empty a magazine never got a hiy marker. initally it looks like i hit them but after watching the kill cam my tracers were to this left while straffing, milli-seconds is the difference between life and death at times i get flash banged , run into my own grenade, shot in the back, flanked, gang banged and so on. one thing for sure if you can see them they can see you, My nephew runs around like a rabid crack head needing a fix, what surprises me it makes no difference the map, game mode, weapon, I have sat behind him watching and he shoots and kills people I never see, i've watch him go 58 and 8 on my unit thinking wow how is that possible its crazy, I used to think people like him was cheating  but I have seen first hand there are people out there that are that good.

I'd say that momentum is the correct word for it.  When you've got the momentum you're king of the world and when you don't it's painfully obvious.  I don't think that it's a game mechanic but rather a side effect of the game.  I've played long enough to know that many gunfights are won or lost due to timing and positioning.  If I can get to the correct spot at the correct time, more than likely I'll take out whomever pops the corner that I'm looking at but if I miss time it by even a second the advantage will go to my opponent.  I play solo a lot (mostly to minimize my lag problems) which means that I join a whole lot of games late.  Generally if I end up on a team that is doing well then I will do well also because more than likely they have pinned the enemy down.  But if I join a team that is getting slaughtered it's very difficult to change the momentum simply because for every guy that you kill another one will take you out from behind.  Often it takes a few minutes of kill/die and repeat before you've been able to push the enemy back far enough to mount a comeback.  So for those games where you start out winning and then find yourself rocking a large deathstreak, what has happened is that your team has lost it's momentum.  Somewhere along the line somebody got to his position a little too late and now the enemy has taken the advantage (momentum) away from you.

When you play HQ you will most likely feel like this game is an conspiracy lol.

you could in the proces of capturing a HQ when you suddenly get shot by an opponent and watch the replay to see he just respawned next to HQ and then turn to rage when you see you respawn on the other side of the map lol.

small maps like hijacked and slums are the worst ever.

yemen actually has 1 team start the game in front of the first HQ and if they have anything resembling a brain then chances are you wont get that first HQ.
then after you finally destroy it you head to the next HQ where the opponents are respawning next to lol.

I have thought the same thing about momentum......up untill lately i had assumed it was Lag /LagComp

because of people leaving the game in progress and others players joining in progress....

But the last few nights there have been to many of us who like playing together to party up as one party, so 6 will party up and the rest of us keep trying to join the game in progress until we all get in......and a few times we have managed to get 12 of us in the same game lobby

I am nowhere near as good as some of the guys, but i am better than some........I have had games where i owned the other team ......12-0 then all of a sudden ......my gun started shooting cottonballs and i end up just barely breaking even or maybe going neg.

All of us noticed what was going on

with no one leaving or no new person joining  we joked and said the game was handicapping us

For whatever reason, there's no question that the lag comp will sometimes swing wildly from one side to another, but the majority of the time it's planted on the side of those with crap internet. Is nice on those rare occasions that it swings in favor of us with quality connections. The kills come so INCREDIBLY EASY that it almost feels like cheating. Use an SMG or a KAP 40 and your are pretty much invincible even with the tiniest bit of skill. Man, with the lag comp in your favor you can even tear it up with the M8A1, which is pretty much the weakest weapon in the game when lagging.