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Subject: Bungie - Aussie & New Zealand halo 3'ers

Well this has being an on-going problem since the fall of 'reach'.. the halo 3 servers are simply not as good as they were and im wondering if they are even going to attempt to help / fix this problem for us? im from New Zealand and every single game i play is yellow connection, it never use to be like this.

My question is will bungie even look at this thread lol? and if they even do will they help improve the lag us NZ and aussie gamers get? or just overlook it like most other things posted in this forum. I just want to play a game were i don't get killed from behind walls n -blam!- because of lag, and i want to play a game i paid for and actually have fun again :\

  • 12.09.2010 4:33 AM PDT
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  • 12.09.2010 1:29 PM PDT

Posted by: militaryguns
I'm sorry America is busy helping others in the world and actually making a difference.

Something Canada will never do.

move.

  • 12.09.2010 1:38 PM PDT
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Posted by: x Foman123 x
Posted by: jaythenerdkid
I definitely believe every wildly inflated claim ITT.

Weow kid, do you even lift?


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No, Bungie cannot fix the lag for you. It's not like they made it so that Aussies and NZrs play on lag just to annoy us.

It's not lag, by the way, it's latency. Latency is caused by distance between host and client. When there is a massive distance between you (the client) and the host, you will always experience latency.

If you don't want to play on yellow bar, then you have 3 options.

1) Move to America.
2) Get an amazing Cable connection so you pull host.
3) Bridge/get bridged host.

I do not recommend any of these, especially not 1 or 3.

I am Aussie, I play 50 high TS every day on yellow bar. It's not that hard, you just need to realise that you are behind the game, and you need to play that way.

If they shoot you once, it means you have probably already been shot twice. If you are in a BR battle, back off after 2 shots being put on you, unless you KNOW you can get the kill.

Play one step ahead, and it will be OK.

When it comes to EU host, don't bother. You may as well just quit.

  • 12.09.2010 1:46 PM PDT
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I just want them to give Halo 3 the same netcoding as Reach. I play against americans in Reach and I still have latency issues, but its better than Halo 3 ( I don't mean hitscan, I mean when I pull left trigger to throw a grenade it comes out fairly quickly, unlike Halo 3 which makes it rdiculously hard to place nades right. Of course the yanks will still have the advantage, that's the price we pay for having hotter women and not guzzling donuts 24 hours a day.

  • 12.09.2010 2:20 PM PDT

Don't even get me started.


Posted by: xo PAP3R ox
the halo 3 servers are simply not as good as they were


a) They're the same servers, and are under less load than they previously were, so they should theoretically be performing better.

b) The performance of the servers will not have any impact on gameplay for anyone. There is no such thing as a dedicated server in the realm of Halo's Xbox Live matchmaking; each game is hosted by a player in the game determined to have the best connection (although the method of choosing the host is a somewhat flawed system). The problem you're having is foreign hosts. Since the population is so much lower than it used to be, Australians and New Zealanders are even more outnumbered than they used to be. Playing a game hosted by anyone outside of this area is most likely going to mean you'll be yellow/red bar the whole game. Since it's almost impossible to get a game consisting entirely of players from Australia or New Zealand, someone will always wind up with a poor connection to the host (Everyone outside of AUS/NZ in AUS/NZ hosted games will lag the way you do now). The host will be an American, Mexican or European nine times out of ten now because the way the best host is determined is through host history. The system takes an average connection quality of everyone in every game a player hosts, and the player with the best host history is chosen to be the host. Since AUS/NZ players are outnumbered, when they host a game the connection quality is poor for many players and the average connection quality in the host history for that person becomes poor. As this value continues to decrease, that player will be chosen to be the host less and less - eventually never.

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  • 12.09.2010 3:41 PM PDT

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Ok, for all us Aussies and Kiwis that are -blam!-ing about it, I've set up a gateway gamertag to play with others: AusNZ Halo3

A gateway Gamertag is basically a substitute for Halo 2 Clans. Add yourself to the list, get and recieve game invites to and from those on the list, and play nice. If you don't won't to be on the list, remove the gateway gamertag from your friend list. this list is only for Australian/New Zealand gamers, that play Halo 3 on a REGULAR BASIS.

  • 12.09.2010 4:36 PM PDT
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I play games for gameplay, not silly gimmicks

H3 MM warrior

Reach S7, 8 and 9 arena warrior.

H4 MM legend


Posted by: StNeoJimmy X49

Lol thinking RippinHeads is pro

  • 12.09.2010 10:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: Screamo
move.

Lol Screamo.

OP I don't know what you're talking about.

I'm Australian, I barely have to deal with lag.
Maybe it's just your connection?

  • 12.10.2010 4:43 AM PDT
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Posted by: x Foman123 x
Posted by: jaythenerdkid
I definitely believe every wildly inflated claim ITT.

Weow kid, do you even lift?


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Posted by: Mat Haz Host
I'm Australian, I barely have to deal with lag.
Mat Haz HostWut

  • 12.10.2010 5:07 AM PDT
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I'm getting seriously annoyed with the terrible latency accompanied with absolute swarms of boosters/derankers in ranked playlists. I've seen other aussies gameplays saying they had an awful connection that game, yet that's what my connection is lik every game. I think it's because I only have a wireless broadband dongle ( move around too much to get a fixed landline connection )
it's almost impossible for me to rank up now ( especially MLG ) because I'll win 1, then rage quit the next 3 because of a deranker on my team or I keep dying in cheap ways thanks to Telstra being a bunch of useless monkeys. Bungie needs to make it so Americans never get host. Then I can sit back and laugh as they all whine their heads off.

  • 12.10.2010 1:45 PM PDT
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Posted by: x Foman123 x
Posted by: jaythenerdkid
I definitely believe every wildly inflated claim ITT.

Weow kid, do you even lift?


Skype: au-simon

Posted by: ghoulies113Telstra is fine, it's because you are on a Wireless network. Wireless can be amazingly unstable, so you're probably just a victim of a bad network. Nothing you can do about it, but take a cable from your Router to your Xbox.

All Aussies need to realise that it's completely ridiculous thinking that we should get host over Americans. It doesn't even make sense, unless the majority of the game are Aussies/NZrs. Why would they make a system where 95% of the people in the game are playing on a host OVER 9000!! miles away, when they could be playing on a "local" host.

You just needa learn to play on yellow bar. How about you start by actually playing the games where you have a deranker on your team. You know you're going to lose, why not try some stuff out and see how far you can go on yellow bar. Test how many shots you can take before backing down (I reccommend 1 or 2).

  • 12.10.2010 4:25 PM PDT