Fix ****ing Matchmaking. Now.

[Koriatou]

I've had enough of it. I can have a ****ing solid 4 bar connection and lag to a point at which I die so ****ing easily. My K/D has dropped from 1.6 to 1.12 because ****ing matchmaking in this game is ****ing horrible. At this point, I'd rather have spent money on a game I'd have fun playing online rather than this ****ing horrible lag. It doesn't matter anymore what guns I use, what perks and what attachments. Now that twenty god ****ing damn million people are playing at any given time, my already ****ty internet is eve more ****ty than before. Now don't get me wrong, my internet is fine for everything EXCEPT playing CoD. I'll have a four bar connection (meaning someone with my internet provider is host) and I'll lag so badly.

Which brings me to, either IW doesn't give a flying **** about people's connection or, it's time to get ****ing new internet.


Sorry for the swearing but I needed to vent my anger.

[SPOOKFORCE]

Yep, lag is an issue. I experimented last week. Put in COD4---4 green bars the whole time (played for 2 hours). Mw2---I have had one 2 bar match the entire last week (rest being red). Sometimes though my red-bar matches are pretty stable though (really just luck of the draw)--or maybe I'm just up against players with reaaallly sloow reactions.

[Alpha]

The host selection is like watching an idiot drive, you laugh in anger. When Danny or Vibrations gets in our room, it gives them host and everyone else has 2 yellow bars. :D Makes sense

[xk01]

Guess what? Whenever I play with my friends we get into a game all of us have 4 bar connection. I go matchmaking by myself takes me forever to get into a game and then I get stuck with people who live across the world from me! WTF I get into games with French, British, and Japanese people!

[SPOOKFORCE]

The host selection is like watching an idiot drive, you laugh in anger. When Danny or Vibrations gets in our room, it gives them host and everyone else has 2 yellow bars. :D Makes sense

lol I've annoyed you guys already with some of these stories on PSN....but every time I first put the game in I get given host for the first 5 matches min lol. I have 4 green bars and no one else can even spawn into the game. I just run around for a bit with things absolutely silent and will occasionally spot a lone dude who's having trouble moving lol (it's seriously gimped when you know the guy with possibly the worst connection in the world is given host)

[IM_A_HUSTLA]

my connection is always 4 green bars, except when im host obv

[Koriatou]

That was the most uneducated post ever. Your connection is always 4 green bars. Except when your host? You automatically have 4 green bars when your host...

On a side note, would port forwarding maybe help me fix my anger with lag?

[ViPERSNiPERx]

Played for about 3 hours last night, had to switch servers several different times because I was on a red dot for the WHOLE time. There was no match where I wasn't 1 bar, it's bs..

Since yesterday, couldn't connect to a single game, kept lagging out before a server was found, but called Netgear and had them disable our modem's firewall, now the servers are loading. But that still leaves the problem about sh*tballs lag.
As for port forwarding, I've heard that it does work for people in improving connection ingame, I'll try it now as a matter of fact lol.

Which ports are required to be open for Xbox LIVE on your router or firewall (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908874)

[ls206]

I have complained a lot about the lag in cod...4 to be specific, but I have found that the new system is much much better.

I played on an cross atlantic host today and there were only a few real laggy moments, but also some 0 lag moments :)

I have to say I'm pretty happy with the connection

[xk01]

I portforwarded my xbox and it works for cod4 and WaW really. I get 4 bars basically no matter what. In MW2 on the other hand it's a fail.

[Myst3rium]

I don't know why, but I never seem to lag. I can't remember the last time I had under a 3 bar connection, and that's with my xbox, my brother's ps3, my computer, and my mom's computer all online at the same time.

[Steelray25]

Seems strange, but I seem to lag when I have 4 bars... when I have 3 everything is fine. Go figure.

**By lag, I mean I seem to be "behind" in time to most people, including guys with 2 or 3 bars.

And yeah, 3 nights ago, my firend and I were in a match where everyone but one guy had 2-3 bars. He stayed host 4 matches straight. wha huh?

[ls206]

what determines the host?
me and my friends seem to get host a lot more than we ever did on cod4.

[Sheikah16]

I never lag unless for some reason it decides to put me on a french or british host.

[Koriatou]

I have the mouth of a trooper (which I am one soo...no harm no foul) but on a side note, I gave it a couple days and I don't lag anymore. Must have just been that Sunday and Monday night that was lagging...

[ZLeeJonZ]

Lag in this game is ridiculous... either that or hit detection. Im so ****ing sick of moving behind cover and then once im 3 feet behind it i finally drop dead.... no deep impact, just the guy spraying where i WAS and still getting hitmarkers.... complete BS!

[Koriatou]

Jon, I have the exact same issue. That's my only complaint that has to go with lag.

[Ik0n]

That's client-side hit detection, on his screen, you were right where he was shooting. If you think there is a better system, go and play Gears of War 2 against the host.. lmao. This game doesn't know how to pick good hosts though, it's ridiculous.

[CSShadowFang]

this game is the reason why developers need to come out with a demo before launch.

[ZLeeJonZ]

That's client-side hit detection, on his screen, you were right where he was shooting. If you think there is a better system, go and play Gears of War 2 against the host.. lmao. This game doesn't know how to pick good hosts though, it's ridiculous.

I can go play cod4 or cod2 and this crap almost never happens. It does happen very seldomly in those game but in MW2 is nearly impossible to take cover once your hit. My reaction time is pretty darn good and using cover saved me a LOT in CoD4. GoW2 should be the poster boy for LAG.... but MW2 is not in the same ballpark as cod4 as far as lag correction goes.... at least IMO.

And i would disagree that he still saw me standing there. I have been on the giving end of these also. Shoot at the guy running through a doorway and he drops dead 5 feet in the other room.... with me getting hitmarkers spraying at nothing. Not to mention the dozens of times my quickscopes were slightly off and i still got the kill.... or i was right on top of them and it goes right through em.

And the host migration system is at best... flawed. I still get more games ended because of "disconnect from host" than games that successfully migrate hosts.

[Ik0n]

I agree with you on the disconnect from hosts.. always happens to me when we're destroying the other team. However, back to the original point, it's the same system in COD4 as in MW2 and it's happened to me on COD4 as well. It's just one of the down sides of client side hit detection, but it's definitely better than the other options.. that's all I'm saying.

[CSShadowFang]

any hit detection + lag= bad

[wookiee]

Any Australian player will be able to vouch that no-one has experienced matchmaking issues until they've tried to connect randomly to a game from Down Under...

Luckily I have about 18-20 "friends" online at the same time of a night lately so I can usually find a decently hosted game that way, or a regular group of friends just form a party first and go that way, inviting any friends we've got online into the game, so we can be gauranteed it stays Australian as otherwise, it still sticks us in with a bunch of americans (no offense :) )

If IW are not going to fix it, at least make visible Clan tags in the "recently played against" list, so we can spot other AUS players...

[DankSK]

I'm just glad that it never lags for me.

[wookiee]

I nearly threw my controller through my tv last night... I had to wait nearly 2hrs to be able to join a friends match as I kept getting stuck with people and nothing over 2 bars... it's fracking ridiculous!

Has anyone noticed that they've dropped the ping down from 100ms to 50 though? Hasn't fixed anything for me... it's still finding between 14-18 good games out of 50, so maybe they need to either drop it more, or work harder on finding those 50 sample games... I for one wouldn't mind waiting longer initially if it meant getting a game that I can play in properly...

[ViPERSNiPERx]

Any Australian player will be able to vouch that no-one has experienced matchmaking issues until they've tried to connect randomly to a game from Down Under...



Too true mate. Whenever I connect to a random server, I'm usually the only guy with a red-dot connection it's ridiculous.

But it's also got it's advantages.. When I'm host, I'm a full 4 bar connection and everyone else in the game has 1 or 2 bar connections :D They usually vent on mic, very funny lol
But no, our connection is ****house down here.

[Shax]

wait so how do u get to be host, is it just random or the highest level thing, cos i dont think i was ever host.

[AsianPimpDaddy]

I usually have a 3 bar connection, but I have been experiencing countless matches with terrible lag. Hopefully it will not be as bad in the near future.

[Smurf]

wow people complaining about 2 bar connection? 2 bar connection is great its just as easy as playing with 4 bars... red is also alright. Lag is definately not as bad as in cod 4. lol I must be awesome if I can keep my k/d good even though I'm stuck with 1 or 2 bars 90% of the time.

[kebab]

Hang on fellas am i missing something here you all seem to think lag is ok WHY in this day and age even console players shouldnt have to put up with lag

The reason lag seems better on this game than on cod 4 is because you have a target area the size of a house end and they have put a crude anti lag system in the game which is really just a mask to cover how much lag you really have

[IRHardcore]

You CANNOT join a game without at least one friend being dropped ¬¬.
So annoying!

[ooblushy88oo]

That was the most uneducated post ever. Your connection is always 4 green bars. Except when your host? You automatically have 4 green bars when your host...

For some reason, that made me laugh so hard...

[SCAR_Guy430]

lol I get +KD in every game with red - yellow connection, unless I have severe headache and whatnot.

P.S. I got my 53-3 with my connection on red... It's probably because my opponents were dumb, but I dunno.

[hardyhar]

i have it worse. domination to TDM express. i thought that stuff was patched.

[a robotic puppy]

I live in Australia. This game hates Aussies. 99% of the time il bring 5-7 aussie buddies in but it will still give host to some french guy. (french people really like this game idk..)

[NoSkinnyLadies]

hell sometimes i get lag even with a four bar connection, it evens out after a while, but it still jerks around occasionally.

[hardyhar]

I live in Australia. This game hates Aussies. 99% of the time il bring 5-7 aussie buddies in but it will still give host to some french guy. (french people really like this game idk..)

blame the famas.

[AsianPimpDaddy]

Same happens to me too. I find that I need a Canadian host to have a better connection. If the host is from Europe or UK, then I lag quite a bit. When my Canadian friends are host though, I might lag once in like 10 games.

[SCAR_Guy430]

"Server Connection Timed Out"

Absolutely despise it when it happens.

EDIT: btw, does your score still count when that happens?

[NoSkinnyLadies]

"Server Connection Timed Out"

Absolutely despise it when it happens.

EDIT: btw, does your score still count when that happens?

the one i hate is "lost connection to host".

[Shax]

they fixed the matchmaking now, well atleast in Australia, most of the time you get a 3 bar to 4 bar connection unless your playing at like 4 in the morning ( which i do alot )