Mischief Mike

Not to sound like a pretentious moron but that to me says your connection might not be that great. You see lag dampening helps people with poor connections and punishes those with good connections, its designed to level the playing field to eliminate host advantage. Its great in theory but atm in Halo 4 it's a nightmare, it will take me 7-8 shots with a br to kill someone with a poor connection as the 1-2 second lag means the first few shots won't register. i pay £30 a month for 100 mbps, of which i get ~98mbps downlaod and 10mbps upload (overkill for online gaming but great for streaming). I pay that for a smooth online gaming experience, which was great back in the days off MW and halo 2-3 but im getting punished for it now. Thankfully 343i is aware of this for non regional players and looking for a fix (if one exists ofc). UPDATE: 17/11/2012 14:54 Just tested this and connected via WiFi instead of cable (my WiFi connection is pretty bad as my console is so far away from the router) and my online experience is now amazing. I think we can all agree that's totally ridiculous.

The biggest problem with Halo 4 ATM is lag dampening, its pretty much cutting the whole of Europe, Australia and new Zealand out of match making. Halo 4 is an amazing game, one of my all time favorites, but this is some serious game breaking stuff when the above mentioned can not play match making on a "relatively" (never gonna be perfect) even playing field. My friends and i (12 of us) have reluctantly decided to give BLOPS2 a try, which i'm pretty gutted about. I love matchmaking and like to be competitive, unfortunately (ATM) Halo 4 can not offer anyone outside of america that opportunity.

This is literally about to make me quit the game. A lot of the time i can pump 6-7 shots of the DMR into the enemy and they still live to kill me, i don't mind being a tiny bit behind the Americans (we cant have it all) but when its quite blatantly this game breaking is just frustrating. Unfortunately i'm about to say "screw it" and go play something more fair (along with 11 of my friends as well), and i love this game. have smashed out almost every achie for it. PLEASE 343, SORT THIS OUT!! this is to good a game to let it die over something as simple to fix as this. UPDATE: 15/11/2012 Thats it, we've decided to give BLOPS2 a try, haven't played one since the original Black ops but lets be honest, no way on this little green earth it can be any worse then this. Since this game has released i have seen the player base drop by 75%. when it first came out there was on average 80-90k player in infinity slayer and big team infinity slayer. since BLOPS2 has come out its dropped to an average of 10-20k in each. there's no way that this issue has absolutely nothing to do with that. (its a small part granted but still enough to turn people away from the game).