- Clarkosaur
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- Veteran Member
I just had an incredibly frustrating night of matchmaking and I have to ask this question on here. Sometimes my internet connection seems faster than others. I know this is normal. Some nights I get host a lot and even when I don't, my connection to the host is fast and I get kills easily. Other nights, like tonight, I never get host, and my connection to the host is usually slow and I have a very hard time registering kills.
But here's the part I don't understand. Even on the bad nights, the games never *look* that laggy. Rarely is my connection so slow that the other players jump around all over my screen. The problem is that when my connection is slower none of my hits register with the host. To take the most obvious example, sometimes I can unload an entire BR clip on a guy that's standing 10-15 feet in front of me and it won't even take his shield down. I can see my Xbox registering the hits because I can see the little sparks on his body where I'm shooting him. But I know the damage isn't registering with the host because his shield never lights up, which is the confirmation that the hit has registered over the network. Some nights, like tonight, it's almost impossible for me to get kills because half or more of my hits just never resister, even when the game doesn't appear particularly laggy.
So I guess my question is whether or not this is normal and whether other people have the same problem. Some of the other players I play with say they never notice this. I'm wondering if maybe I have a connection that is basically fast but that has short intermitent breaks that cause data to be dropped or something. Or maybe this is normal and happens to everyone. It hardly seems worth switching providers since I'm happy with the service otherwise, but I'm wondering if I might not have this problem with another service. Has anyone else noticed this?