There not dedicated but they still have them to process the game.
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
- Thread starter Gavin.
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There not dedicated but they still have them to process the game.
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akimbo-slice
Just experienced my first proper lag on mw3 but it turns out it was because my sisters boyfriend was on his
ps3 upstairs
ps3 upstairs
Bus w**ker
I've seen them say that for Elite, but as MW3 (much like BLOPS and MW2 before it) are P2P based MPs there won't be any servers as such. Each players console becomes a peer and the host becomes the server, with each node sharing data packages between each other to pass on player location kills blah blah blah. Hence the complaints about lag/host migration/hit marker detection etc, currently if one persons connection is sucking balls then it can disrupt everyone's game or if some little mug rage quits and just pulls the plug on their console whilst hosting the whol game dies as it can't migrate to another host quickly enough.
If they'd listened to the community and not been cheap arse money grabbing Jews they would have gone with dedicated servers and then any complaints would be due to the individual users broadband/overloading of the servers.
There are no servers for MW3 on console. It's P2P. The PC version uses dedicated servers.
People are moaning about lag, but next minute they're moaning that the lag is caused by poor frame rates. Yet no one is moaning about poor frame rates. A game has to be running pretty choppy for it to start affecting aiming and hits. I reckon you'd need to be down somewhere like 15-20fps (dependent on the individual) before it had a noticeable detrimental affect to the shooting.
Oh and PSN is s**t, regardless of your internet connection speeds. Just because you have a thousand terabit internet doesn't mean PSN is delivering that bandwidth. Your pings are probably like 300ms+ over that dogs**t network. Probably be quicker to use two plastic cups and a piece of string.
In my experience it's almost always crushingly slow at everything.
People are moaning about lag, but next minute they're moaning that the lag is caused by poor frame rates. Yet no one is moaning about poor frame rates. A game has to be running pretty choppy for it to start affecting aiming and hits. I reckon you'd need to be down somewhere like 15-20fps (dependent on the individual) before it had a noticeable detrimental affect to the shooting.
Oh and PSN is s**t, regardless of your internet connection speeds. Just because you have a thousand terabit internet doesn't mean PSN is delivering that bandwidth. Your pings are probably like 300ms+ over that dogs**t network. Probably be quicker to use two plastic cups and a piece of string.
In my experience it's almost always crushingly slow at everything.
328, MK1 Clio 1.4
I'm sure they will sort it, I know they talk loads of bullshit to keep people off their backs so its hard to tell what true or not, It just seems strange why other games are not lagging, I still cant believe they don't have dedicated servers, The amount of people i have seen selling the game due to lag is stupid, They must be loosing lots of customers to rival games.
They're not though are they? Most people moaning about lag in this thread will buy the next CoD, moan about the lag, sell it, and wait for the next instalment.
Also, for people hating on it who have yet to play the campaign, I highly recommend you quit the online party for a while try the single player. It's brilliant fun and it wont lag on y0 ass.
Bus w**ker
There's very little they can do other than implementing dedicated servers and rolling out a massive update to change the current MP coding so that it doesn't use P2P. As above most people suffering are having problems due to their own connection or the connection of someone else in game. Not going with dedi boxes was a mistake and made purely through financial motivation (and possibly laziness, as they didn't have to re-write the connection method or matchmaking etc), it has lost them sales but with 6.5 million copies selling within 48 hours of release I doubt Activision are all that arsed lol.
Anyone selling this due to lag or other stupid reasons like that are retarded.
Anyone selling this due to lag or other stupid reasons like that are retarded.
They will sell it so will not be buying the map packs etc, I will do the campaign when i get a week off work at xmas, I need to sit there and do it in a day or 2 and not an hour or 2 every night as you dont get the same experience IMO.
RS Clio 172
I don't get all the problems people are having in this thread. I'm not having any problems at all, nor are any of my friends.
Final kill is always spot on as far as I can tell and have had few dubious kills. There are always going to be "I shot them first" instances. The solution is to get quicker.
Final kill is always spot on as far as I can tell and have had few dubious kills. There are always going to be "I shot them first" instances. The solution is to get quicker.
CBR1000RR Fireblade
i now definitely think the lag problems are due to peoples connection speeds. i mentioned it earlier but after experimenting i now think this is most certainly the culprit.
my download speed is average but my upload speed is low around 0.01 Mbs to 0.2 Mbs. this causes the game to run fine and appear normal but because of my low upload speed my actions lag and are well off the pace. this is why i keep emptying full clips into people only to be killed, then when i watch the kill cam the other person opened fire and killed me before my gun even fired.
im not saying that the game wont glitch, because it will and that's unavoidable. however 10 people in game with possibly 10 different connection speeds is inevitably going to cause lag issues.
IMO the game will only be as good as the slowest speed connection, especially if that slow connection is the host
my download speed is average but my upload speed is low around 0.01 Mbs to 0.2 Mbs. this causes the game to run fine and appear normal but because of my low upload speed my actions lag and are well off the pace. this is why i keep emptying full clips into people only to be killed, then when i watch the kill cam the other person opened fire and killed me before my gun even fired.
im not saying that the game wont glitch, because it will and that's unavoidable. however 10 people in game with possibly 10 different connection speeds is inevitably going to cause lag issues.
IMO the game will only be as good as the slowest speed connection, especially if that slow connection is the host
RS Clio 172
Fire 2 mags into them. Derr.
RS Clio 172
This sums it up for me. Loved CoD4, played it to death, slowly lost interest in the series after WaW, MW2 and then Blops. MW3 has got me right back into it though.
Gavin.
ClioSport Club Member
Lag doesn't surprise me tbh it was the same with MW2 and Blops. I am however surprised at people surprised that there is lag.
I just had a massive rage quit moment. Smashed my hand up and everything.
Some guy camping in a corner, I run up knife him. Knife goes straight threw him and then because he sees that, turns round and knifes me. Everyone saw it as I he had the final kill on me. RAGEEEEEE. I'm buying skyrim, this is b****cks.
Some guy camping in a corner, I run up knife him. Knife goes straight threw him and then because he sees that, turns round and knifes me. Everyone saw it as I he had the final kill on me. RAGEEEEEE. I'm buying skyrim, this is b****cks.
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A.N. Other
Went into my first online game earlier. I'm distinctly average in Black Ops but got annihilated in the two Domination maps I tried. Think I need to get on the billy whizz to get some quicker reactions! Not helped by little map areas mind - and it put just a few of us, all <level 30, against twice as many opposition who had higher levels...
A.N. Other
Hardcore - u iz!
AIM FOR THE HEAD - SIMPLES!
