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Subject: What are the advantages of Being Host?

Just curious. What the advantages of being host are and how does someone get picked to be host?

  • 06.08.2007 9:49 PM PDT
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I don't know how someone get's picked to be host. But you can kill people a little bit easier with the shotgun, or battle rifle.

I like not getting host, because I like knowing I'm getting kills by skill, not a slight host advantage.

  • 06.08.2007 9:54 PM PDT
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um on BR matches you kill the opponent in 3 shots instead of 4, on snipes you are more likely to get the headshot across the map, and you are harder to kill.........thats it basically and host is picked on who has the best internet connection and they are given host of that game, i do believe

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  • 06.08.2007 9:54 PM PDT
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all you are dumb... host has nade jumps, the best ping, no bullet lag, br's go cross map, snipes go where ever your crosshair is, you always get the last shot, so if you and you enemy shot a snipe in the dome at the same time, you would get the kill, your nades still blow up when you die. i think thats it

  • 06.08.2007 9:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: ohhh noo alton
all you are dumb... host has nade jumps, the best ping, no bullet lag, br's go cross map, snipes go where ever your crosshair is, you always get the last shot, so if you and you enemy shot a snipe in the dome at the same time, you would get the kill, your nades still blow up when you die. i think thats it


ok so where dumb cause we left out every little detail

shut up

  • 06.08.2007 9:59 PM PDT
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"all you are dumb..."

Dumb because we didn't point out exactly every single thing that happens when your host. Wow, you're right.

Your dumb if you think that your snipe DOESN'T go where ever your crosshair is. You don't ALWAYS get the last shot (I guess you can't get kills unless your host?). If you throw a grenade before you die, whether your host or not, it almost always blows up.

  • 06.08.2007 10:00 PM PDT

How do i tell if i'm host? Or how can i tell who is host? It seems that i may play it a little more stategic if i'm gettin in to it with the host.

  • 06.08.2007 10:06 PM PDT
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Well, if your host, might as well as take advantage of it.
Back in the day, you used to be able to press right on the D-Pad and the perimeter around your logo would turn blue. Nowadays, just look straight down, throw a grenade, and jump right when it explodes. If done correctly, you will jump higher than normal. You can tell if you jump higher.

  • 06.08.2007 10:09 PM PDT
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when i get lucky and get a host my game seems 2 run alot smoothly

  • 06.08.2007 10:10 PM PDT
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The advantage of host? That would be a ping of 0, my friend. While everyone else has to wait 150ms' for their shots, melees, and other actions to connect to you, your actions connect to them instantly, giving you a slight advantage. This is why, the person with less ping always has a slight advantage.

  • 06.08.2007 10:15 PM PDT
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Well, if your host, might as well as take advantage of it.
Back in the day, you used to be able to press right on the D-Pad and the perimeter around your logo would turn blue. Nowadays, just look straight down, throw a grenade, and jump right when it explodes. If done correctly, you will jump higher than normal. You can tell if you jump higher.


Or you could just hold the back button at the start of the game...

  • 06.08.2007 10:47 PM PDT

i played elongation and ivory tower on double team earlier. On elongation both me or my teammate in my party would get host. Whoever gets host gets the shotty and game over. On ivory tower have one teammate get sword and one teammate get shotty, either one can have snipe. Its game over after that. Host advantage is wild

  • 06.08.2007 11:14 PM PDT
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who cares !! i live in europe and every game is a dis-advantage straight away.............but i still have fun !!

  • 06.09.2007 5:18 AM PDT
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Posted by: blue4eva
who cares !! i live in europe and every game is a dis-advantage straight away.............but i still have fun !!


I live in europe with like a 300 KB upload and I still get host (ridiculous).

Anyway it's mainly that you can BR across the map and that shotgun works better.

Also there should in theory be a very small advantage on beatdowns.

EDIT: Only one XBox can have host. If there are two people when you press start who look like they have host that means they are either on the same XBox or one of them has a good connection to the host.

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  • 06.09.2007 8:18 AM PDT
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you can tell if your host if you hold back before game starts and see who spawns first.

  • 06.09.2007 8:34 AM PDT

Back off man, I'm a scientist.

huh? when I used to play halo being host wasnt really a big deal or talked about much, I guess I missed a lot?

  • 06.09.2007 8:46 AM PDT
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Posted by: A Naked Ninja69
um on BR matches you kill the opponent in 3 shots instead of 4,


Uhh, no. Host does not make your bullets stronger, just gives them more range, and more responsive. A BR takes 10 bullets minimum to kill, host or not. You still have to 4 shot on host.

Host has no ping, all weapons seem to have more LAN-like range and response. Host can also grenade jump.

You can tell who's host, by holding the back button when the game starts, and the first person to spawn is host.

Edit-Grenades are stronger after you die. Off-host, it seems grenades lose a lot of their strength when you death throw them.

[Edited on 06.09.2007 9:00 AM PDT]

  • 06.09.2007 8:58 AM PDT