- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Synthmilk
Nessy, obviously your knowlege of how such things work is limited, otherwise you would know that what you just said concerning somone seeing you warp, and you obviously then seeing yourself warp, is utter crap.
If your computer itself is what is causing you to have the high ping, such as your pushing your machine too hard, or you have something else eating up your bandwidth, then you both see it.
If it's purely distance related, then things get more fun, because then it's a game of who the server likes best, and how the game decides to compensate. What happens is, the server apparently favours you, the slow guy, so to you it seems like you are running normal, and they are running normal, but to them, your suck at one point, and then appear at another, as the server can only update their games as fast as it can recieve your signal, but can update yours constantly with their data as they have the better connection.
Your in the UK playing U.S. servers, you have a decent internet connection and so you get around 300's in ping, entirely caused by the distance between you and the U.S. server, it's not that bad and so your in that "sweet spot" I mentioned, as Halo's net code spends the resources to make your connection as good as possible. Now I bet you do see some warping, but it's not as bad as the other guys, which is my point, you can see and play the game as if there was less lag than the other guys, and so while it is you who is lagging, it is you who has advantage.
I hope that was repetitive and clear enough for you to understand.
The way other games work, is they do not favour the longer distance player, they virtually screw the longer distance player by not putting much effort into trying to keep them in the game.
Okay, firstly I have played like 700+ hours of halo and over 1000 matches, I am not boasting, just backing up that I know hwo the game works.
LMFAO at your next comment, why would I get ping in my 300s in US servers lol? I like every other UK player get 100-133 ping on east coast to 200-266 ping on west coast servers. Now, you warp on your screen, and you warp on theirs. And btw, even if that didn't happen, the fact is that you don't warp every second you play.
Why do you think that people try to play on low ping servers, and how there is no montages of people owning with 300 ping? If you want I could get 2 players to play eachother, 1 of them to have ping 1 game, and the others to have high ping the next game, and then see the score.
And finally, teh better player wins most of the time, and even if you for some reason think that I am a noob, I am certainly not. And I play 1v1s on UK, US, Canadian, Dutch, Italian, Israeli, German and French servers, and I do pretty fine on most of them.
Most important things are skill, then having a low ping. I bet you can't find 1 good halo pc player that says that low ping is better...
PS Evililelmo is a public player, I am sure he is good for the average public server player, but would not be able to keep up in matches with the real good players of this game.
[Edited on 3/13/2007]