- JumpNinja
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- Exalted Member
One among millions; just the nearest visible right now.
If you guys did something about the lag, more people would play.
The only thing that can be done to decrease lag is finding better, more compatible hosts in your region- and barring all hosts overseas, or with bad connectivity.
Finding a better host with higher bandwith just means you're going to have one guy with godlike BR skills and smacktalk, and you'll say it was laggy anyway because he went 42 and 5.
Xbox Live won't allow any game company to restrict players to their own country, because that limits the number of players in the pool, slows down matchmaking, and forces them to do some damn work when it comes to filtering play for people, but keeping connectivity quick.
Although Bungie enforces an "anti-host" mechanism that fights against low-bandwith users even outside of BTB, that mechanism does little against the plethora of brand new gamertags that storm the beach of Bungie's servers every week and make it past without being tagged. Worst of all, the same "anti-host" is a sort of filter in itself, working negatively to place low connectivity players alongside each other, even overseas. The whole system is ineffective, thanks to Xbox Live.