- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: unbounddick
I think this is just completely subjective on your part. You are taking your position and your experience in halo 2 and came to the conclusion that host is not bad. You are rediculous for posting this. You probably have a really good connection almost all of your games so you have not had to deal with the cruel reality of host. Let me tell you from what i have read, delt with on another internet connection, and online discussions while in halo 2 matchmaking that host is a huge advantage that should be acounted for.
All games have auto-aiming in them; nearly. So your statement towards this being bungie's form of making up for host is retarded and untrue. If they were trying to make up for host advantage they would be changing game variants in matchmaking so that the host couldnt have or utilize its large advantage.
Halo 3, from what i heard, i could be wrong, but i would be shocked if bungie didnt correct their server issues. I heard from many people, and on many forums that halo 3 is a dedicated server. There is no reason why bungie should not create a dedicated especially after halo 2.
Dont compare halo 2 to any other first person shooter when it has over six million people playing it. I have never heard anyone say that host was good or that it should remain. Six million fans agree host ruins halo live experience, especially when you know the game well enough to know what should be a kill and what shouldnt be.
Lastly, why is it that pro games are not ever held or occuring online....possibly because they have to rule out any and all host advantage.
Think you need to step outside of mommy and daddy's fifty dollar a month highspeed cable internet and realize most people online are getting cheated out of wins even when they are clearly, on their screen, winning every dual.
1. You have no idea what you are talking about. Host HAS to be in a p2p game, period son.
2.I have $15 yahoo dsl, which is amongst the worst broadband available today, I get download speeds of about 40kb a sec and my upstream is less than 10 kB/s. My minimum ping in a pc game with no overhead(like xbox live) is around 130. I have a HORRIBLE connection, and even though I hate dealing with host advantage I realize it must exist and that Halo 2 does a lot more to address the problem than any other online fps.
3.There are no "server issues". The "servers" you speak of are everyone's connection, since halo 2 online is p2p. There will be no dedicated servers in Halo 3.
Also I never said in my original post that there was no host advantage, or that it didn't play a significant role. I only said that host doesn't give as much of an advantage in Halo 2 as it does in other online fps. Go try Halo 1 pc if you don't believe me. All the people I see that actually complain to Bungie about host advantage in Halo 2 shows me that most of you probably didn't play a single fps before Halo, or at least online. You have no idea how the system works outside of Halo 2, and as such you can't see what Bungie's done to make host advantage more manageable in Halo 2 and 3.
[Edited on 09.01.2007 1:00 PM PDT]