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Subject: h2 challenge on different servers?
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holy god is that thing laggy

  • 06.11.2007 6:19 PM PDT
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First 30 secs of any rumble or big team game are always lagtacular

  • 06.11.2007 6:21 PM PDT
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im talking about full games here. seriously at least 4 of the 5 games ive played have been really laggy.

  • 06.11.2007 6:22 PM PDT
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It's stand-byers, mate. I've had peopl try to stand by in 3/4 of the games I've played all day.

  • 06.11.2007 6:28 PM PDT
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People are trying to standby because it's a tournament. It's stupid but it's the only way they can have a shot at winning. I don't really care because it gets some of the standbyers out of the playlists that I regularly play. All I have to do is put up with them for one game a day so I can be entered in the play and win part of the challenge. I'm not skilled enough to go the other way.

  • 06.11.2007 6:31 PM PDT
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/sigh

h2 challenge is acutally challenging since its for a purpuse

rumble pit is such a joke now

  • 06.11.2007 6:31 PM PDT
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This is stupid...all the games are being won by the person with the best connection.

So the top 64 people with the best connections will compete in the finals....wow.

This sucks...I didn't know what to expect but to keep punching trough people and not having shots register sticks, especially when 1 kill means the difference between 2 and 6th place. : (

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lol on a slayer br game, i would grenade combo someone and then 4 SHOT THEM and they wouldnt die, next thing i know i get assasinated

  • 06.11.2007 6:33 PM PDT
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right i know what yous are on about. im a aussie and i always have lag but i learn to live with it. once i played a game of team snipers on lockout and this guy was at sniper tower and i was under br tower and i put 4 bullets in his head and then the servers went red and it said i got assassinated by the same guy! i was like WTF!?!?!?!? oh well im over it now lol... HAPPY GAMING!

  • 06.11.2007 11:45 PM PDT

Posted by: Facelessneel
Standbying, bridging, and modding are all on the increase. Bridging is just so out of control it's to the point where my party will only get host about 1 in every 10 games (until the Americans get home from school). Then, it's about 1 in every 25 games. I don't expect to get host more than any American (due to geography), but at least we used to get it about 1 in every 5 games!

It needs sorting out soon before it gets even worse!

Posted by: Silverfoxx903
This is stupid...all the games are being won by the person with the best connection.

So the top 64 people with the best connections will compete in the finals....wow.

This sucks...I didn't know what to expect but to keep punching trough people and not having shots register sticks, especially when 1 kill means the difference between 2 and 6th place. : (


you think they give host to the person with the BEST connection???

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LAWL!!!1!1 omFG!!!!! lolol!!!1oneoneone

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oh, i almost -blam!- AND pissed myself while i was CRYING from -blam!- laughter!!! that's the funniest -blam!- i heard all day... "person with the 'best' connection!" lolz!!!1! ;)

i have a 10mbps/1mbps (that's downstream/upstream link for those who don't know a damn thing about ANYTHING about computers) LOW LATENCY connection (i live in va, and i can "ping" (don't know what that means? look it up!) ny in <50ms (or la/sfc in ~100ms) that peaks at something like 20mbps/1mbps, and i never... NEVER... NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVER get host! i mean, god forbid i should get host, and 5-7/8 players have full green bars (don't blame me cause the last person is missing a bar or two... he probably has a walmart connection and had host LAST round ;) )!

besides, (this is not directed towards you, "silverfox") the op is right. this "tourney" (which is just ffa (which doesn't take into AAANY account k/d ratio, assists, etc.) should be on D. E. D. I. C. A. T. E. D... servers! -blam!-!! i thought this would be a chance to play some NON-LAGGY (had this ACTUALLY been on dedicated servers), RANKED rumble pit games, again.

  • 06.12.2007 4:58 AM PDT
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I understand your pain my host is very very very good too never dropped never lagged but i never get host either

  • 06.12.2007 8:26 AM PDT
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I have DSL and my friends have cable...almost 3 times as fast as mine but I sometimes still get host. What I am saying is, when you are host, you automatically have a leg up over the competition.

There were plenty of times were I should have died but I had host and didn't.

  • 06.12.2007 9:06 AM PDT
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its def. the servers i think

any other playlist is fine and h2 challenge is just laggy overall

maybe itll get better over time cause its brand new(or so i hope)

  • 06.12.2007 9:44 AM PDT

This is a RETICULE, and that is a RETICLE. I'm using the latter to aim. And what are you using?

I'm afraid it won't get better at all. You probably remember how people cheated like mad ever since H2 hit the shelves, and all for a stupid number next to your name. Now you can actually win something, so people will cheat more than ever before. That's the main reason I didn't even sign up for the tournament. Otherwise I'd have participated despite knowing that I don't have any chances in the tournament to begin with. But it would sure have been fun.

My only hope is that Bungie's banhammer keeps busy; it would really be nice if those cheaters got caught.

  • 06.12.2007 10:19 AM PDT

i think they should get rid of the hole thing because of how much sux. The maps that are being played arent FFA maps. They are WAY to big to lay on. Host advantage is the biggest advantage! I played one game and got cheated on because someone was standbying. The person who had host won of course. My second the host won that game to. I really dont like playing with people outside of the US because of how bad their host is. They are on the other side of the world. And why would i wanna listen to some French guy talk crap to me?

  • 06.12.2007 11:23 AM PDT
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Back when it came out, I used to play Halo 2 a lot. And it was a lot of fun. I stopped playing for a while, but after the H3 beta I decided it was time to pick it back up, and I hppped into the tourney. Things have changed since I last played. I've seen monumental ammounts of cheating, lag, and standbyers in this tournament. In the first game I played, I died from a single bullet from an SMG. Seemed kinda funny, but I brushed it off and kept playing. A couple of games later, I meleed someone in the back of the head, and it did nothing. I didn't miss (he was sniping) it just had no effect. I've had bullets pass through people, I've seen people who appear to be bulletproff, and I've been killed with a single shot from a weaker weapon. I can't say which of these occurances can be attributed to cheaters or lag, but whatever the cause, Halo 2 isn't fun anymore.

I'm not just a talentless gamer whining here. I wasn't able to get in on the H3 beta til the last week, but in the first two nights I played, I went from rank 1 to rank 10 in around thirty games. That's not great, but it's not bad considering I was new to the maps, and hadn't picked up a halo game in well over a year. In this tournament, however, I've managed to make it to 3 in a matter of 20 games.

The beta was a blast, much like my first experiences with Halo 2. My concern is that Halo 3 will one day turn into what Halo 2 has become.

  • 06.12.2007 11:59 AM PDT
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Posted by: Th3 Flipst3r
so how does "play and win" work? what does it mean when you get one entry a day? cuz thats about the only chance i have there hehe.


From now until June 25th, everyone fights for rank. On the 25th, the top 64 players will be entered into the final tournament. The top three will win xbox 360 elites.

You are also entered to win an elite just for playing. You get one chance to win for each day you play, and (if I'm not mistaken) there are two elites up for grabs that way.

  • 06.12.2007 12:06 PM PDT

Posted by: Facelessneel
Standbying, bridging, and modding are all on the increase. Bridging is just so out of control it's to the point where my party will only get host about 1 in every 10 games (until the Americans get home from school). Then, it's about 1 in every 25 games. I don't expect to get host more than any American (due to geography), but at least we used to get it about 1 in every 5 games!

It needs sorting out soon before it gets even worse!

Posted by: WhatTheGeek
Back when it came out, I used to play Halo 2 a lot. And it was a lot of fun. I stopped playing for a while, but after the H3 beta I decided it was time to pick it back up, and I hppped into the tourney. Things have changed since I last played. I've seen monumental ammounts of cheating, lag, and standbyers in this tournament. In the first game I played, I died from a single bullet from an SMG. Seemed kinda funny, but I brushed it off and kept playing. A couple of games later, I meleed someone in the back of the head, and it did nothing. I didn't miss (he was sniping) it just had no effect. I've had bullets pass through people, I've seen people who appear to be bulletproff, and I've been killed with a single shot from a weaker weapon. I can't say which of these occurances can be attributed to cheaters or lag, but whatever the cause, Halo 2 isn't fun anymore.

I'm not just a talentless gamer whining here. I wasn't able to get in on the H3 beta til the last week, but in the first two nights I played, I went from rank 1 to rank 10 in around thirty games. That's not great, but it's not bad considering I was new to the maps, and hadn't picked up a halo game in well over a year. In this tournament, however, I've managed to make it to 3 in a matter of 20 games.

The beta was a blast, much like my first experiences with Halo 2. My concern is that Halo 3 will one day turn into what Halo 2 has become.


you, my friend, WOULD HAVE BECOME my new sig (if stupid ass bungie.net would allow MORE THAN A MEASLY 500 CHARS)!

anyway, kudos!

  • 06.12.2007 7:15 PM PDT

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i did really good at halo3, and i think it was mostly because the system was still strong and people were used to using lagging tricks to win their way through stuff. anyone whos a real halo player should have been great at the beta

  • 06.12.2007 9:24 PM PDT