The game has been virtually unplayable for me this evening. It's fucking dreadful. At times I'm being shot by people round corners before I can possibly even see them, then the replay shows me dawdling out in front of them like I don't have a care in the world. People are literally seeing a full second or two ahead of me in some games.

You might be getting old

I wish, then I could just retire and not just hope things will be better in the next game.

You already have the next game. It's just with different skins and guns.

That's not what I meant by next game.

It might be your connection, try turning off or disconnecting what you can when you play.

I never thought of that. Thanks Fallen Angel. Can't wait to try it later.

Not a problem, glad to have helped.

Its amusing to see people without Ghost, shows how much they rely on it. I'm still doing really good despite it.

I wonder why they did away with the regional match-making anyway, I'm a bit fed up of being turfed into games with French/German/Spanish/Italians gibbering away on their mics. I would prefer to be matched up to people in the UK and Ireland. I like the little touch of opening up the mic of the person you just killed but it loses its effect with foreigners.

I love the LMG + Quickdraw + Target Finder

That's pretty dumb. Probably explains some of your extra lag in this game compared to the others too if they're less local.

This seemed to be the case on PS3 in the past. Playing Battlefield 1943 or Uncharted 2 online always had you in with the french.

Theoretically you'd expect a game to look for worldwide games and then pick the ones with the best lag, which logically would be close to you, but it could be that they're just ignoring that and throwing everyone into a Euromix.

I have a PSN account that's registered as US to get access to their store and I signed in to play Blops 1 on it once. Literally heard a "YEEEEHAAAWW" over the mic, so it seems they're going for region over lag and so want to lump all the eurosocialists together. There should be no shortage of local people to play with. Is their maybe a setting to prioritise connection speed? I know some games have that.

I have it set to best connection to try to get games where theoretically I should have the best ping rate possible (in BO1 this was "locale only"). I'm usually playing with a 15-18 Mb/s download rate and a 1.6 Mb/s upload rate and I generally have 4 full green bars in any matches going on and that should be more than enough to have a decent game. See the problem is that unlike MW2, when you knew being host would mean you'd murder everyone, in this it's actually the opposite and being host means it's going to be a battle. I think that the measures they've put in to balance out the ping speeds are basically broken so that invariably people with a worse connection actually do better and it's exacerbated by the bonkers match-making from all over Europe. In MW2 also the match search would tell you it was trawling through games under a certain ping speed. I don't know how this works. The worst part is, much of the time when the game is playable, I know it's probably factoring the other way and I'm being given an advantage over some of the other players. There's genuinely over a second of difference in what players are seeing on their screens and I refuse to believe it's down to my connection being too poor, so I would guess that this is down to a deliberate attempt to help people with shite connections.

I always thought the system from the Modern Warfare games worked great. I can only guess that Treyach have to come up with their own system, hence all the problems with Blops, especially on PS3, and now they've changed it so it's a completely new system. Your connection speed itself is far beyond mine, and knowing you can play other games then the fault would either be shit software or a poor selection of players, and with this being the biggest game in the world, etc, it's not the latter.

The guy who bitched about thermal scopes is using target finder....

The guy who bitches about everything is playing COD.

I read some stuff about players being matched on ping but I seem to end up playing a group of Germans or French 90% of the time so I don't know how this could be. Maybe it picks out one person in the lobby who is in Mongolia.

Hasn't stopped me playing it absolutely shitloads as its great when things are going ok. Although I don't believe the stuff about punishing players for stuff, I've backed out more than I've completed matches over this at times plus I back out in the innumerable times the match-making system drops me in some hopelessly lost team.

I've been very close to getting it but I had a couple of very busy weeks when it came out. I've been playing MW2 to keep my oar in, and I don't know if I would play it enough to take the plunge. Black Ops 1 was probably my favourite online play, although it had far more technical problems than the Modern Warfare games.

Fallen Angel with a clutch play on Raid today. Top notch stuff.

I suppose it is just as bad, g
though it was someone elses.

Please Blitz, You and RoXer saw it. Isn't that enough?

I prefer they bring back dedicated servers like in COD 2 rather than the lobby huzallo.

I'm going to hop on again in a little bit maybe if anyone else is on

Nah, gunna render it and post it here

I'd wait a patch then get it, see if they iron out some of the wrinkles first.

do it.

Love love love how you FUCKS never seem to be on when I'm playing. Or if you are, I try joining your room and you're idle.

Not a fan of hardpoint.

Yeah that type is piss. Its like Drop Zone minus the excitement and getting care packages. Its more like 'go into this wide open space and die'.

I like it. Some of my best games have been on hardpoint.

Where the hell did you two disappear to last night, Blitz and Roxer?

I prefer Domination, CTF, and Sabotage.

Was playing Kill Confirmed with Blitz and Roxer last night, wasn't for Roxers 40+ confirms I would never have gotten credit for a kill.

Will be on for a bit if anyone wants to play.

Absolutely wrecked shit last night, K/D went up by 0.11 from 1.34 to 1.45 :D

Also noticed a flaw/glitch that enemies are made invulnerable by Shock Charges. I had one go off on a guy and it took three shotgun blasts before he dropped.

Anyone else have that happen?

Absolutely wrecked shit last night, K/D went up by 0.11 from 1.34 to 1.45 :D

Also noticed a flaw/glitch that enemies are made invulnerable by Shock Charges. I had one go off on a guy and it took three shotgun blasts before he dropped.

Anyone else have that happen?

Will be on for a bit

Got the Domination capture calling card. Been averaging around 4-7 captures a game. Still losing games because of ass teamates though.

If you've got A and B captured, your best bet is to just hold fast and defend them. But people try and get C, and when they do,it throws the enemy spawn all over the place, and makes it easier for them to take B, which is the key point of the game.

I'm highly guilty of that but only if I'm on a team I trust and can handle holding down all flags. It shoots me right to the top of our team. I remember two things playing Domination with Alvarado, one time I was the top scorer with 0 kills and god knows how many caps and then another time our team won 200-4.

Sucking ass at this so far in multiplayer (PC). I was awesome at MW3 but can't seem to get the hang of it now even though it feels like the same exact game. Saw a blatant wall hacker yesterday, he finished a round like 35-1.