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Posted by: Nessy
The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.
It's not the 56k support per se that is the problem. It is the netcode's reluctance to disconnect anyone who is dropping a lot of packets. You can get the same problems on various connection speeds. Wireless players know how bad it can be, and the rest of us playing with wireless players knows how bad it can be too. When you combine the problem of massive packet drops plus the hit detection netcode as compensation you end up with terrible outcomes, such as people moving down the maps at 125% speed, or hogs disappearing over and over again. The higher the ping, generally the more guessing the game becomes. Not only is it unfair for people who have decent connections, but it is incredibly unfair to the person with the bad connection. The hit detection absolutely hammers this person. Once you get the red reticle on a big time lagger (which inofitself is not always easy) all you have to do is lead your shots and you will get hits on every shot no matter where they actually went. And yes this is the legacy of Microsoft Game Studios, not Gearbox or Bungie.