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Subject: What does "having host" do for you?
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  • Veteran Legendary Member

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I don't know if these guys I met in Matchmaking were trolling, but they were Inheritors and sounded super serious... they said that you actually run and shoot a little bit faster if you have host. Is this true?

  • 02.27.2012 9:28 PM PDT

It does nothing at all for me.

  • 02.27.2012 9:29 PM PDT

i never really thought of it but i don't think so

  • 02.27.2012 9:29 PM PDT
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You wont lag.

  • 02.27.2012 9:29 PM PDT

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Successful flick-shoting. Otherwise no button delay (lag).

  • 02.27.2012 9:30 PM PDT
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bloom is reduced, and your shots register every time without fail. Also you have the advantage because the game registers everything you do before anyone else. So if you both shoot each other at the same time while one shot, you will get the kill, and most likely wont trade.

Also because your bullets register faster, you may shoot people through walls on their screen because of the latency.

  • 02.27.2012 9:31 PM PDT

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Priority. Your shots/movement/actions count first. The caveat is, networking can't possibly show everyone at the exact same time, so Reach gives leeway on when a person did any action. This is why you see so many simultaneous kills, if they didn't have that, you would be going "I shot him first, and they just walked away" more often than "I shot first, but we both died, it's just lag I guess".

If a person gets host and is really laggy, then they will have a huge advantage on priority of attacks/movement, because those are all based on info sent to said host from all other players. Otherwise, with the networking system in Reach, it doesn't matter nearly as much as say, Halo 3. You get priority on when you did things, but if the other person saw themselves attacking you soon enough it will still hurt you anyway.

H3, you would get a ton of 'dropped' shots, where you would see your shots hit, but they wouldn't count because of latency issues with the host. I rarely see that in Reach, but you do still see it occasionaly, along with host (or people better connected to host than you are) hitting you around corners, or after you think you already killed them etc.

[Edited on 02.27.2012 10:02 PM PST]

  • 02.27.2012 9:56 PM PDT

Being host means you have a decent advantage over others. As non host, whenever I kill someone I have to wait about 0.3 seconds for them actually die. It slows me down like crap and ends up messing my game up.

Whenver i beat someone down they almost always beat me down too. annoying.

[Edited on 02.27.2012 10:06 PM PST]

  • 02.27.2012 10:06 PM PDT


Posted by: Blackdog Rker
Successful flick-shoting. Otherwise no button delay (lag).


In normal matchmaking (i.e no campaign/firefight) there is never a button delay regardless of being host or not.

Anyway, the only thing host does for me is reduce the magnetism but never get real lag.

  • 02.27.2012 10:08 PM PDT
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you become a god and shoot through walls

  • 02.27.2012 10:08 PM PDT
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RC Clone is the anti-thesis of a lurker.

Makes other people's shots miss and then they rage at my host.

lol Bookshelf and Flavour 1v1 on my host.

  • 02.27.2012 10:10 PM PDT


Posted by: G 3xia
you become a god and shoot through walls


Yea, um, no.

Just because you got shot through a wall doesn't mean the other player has host... It just means your connection to the host is terrible.

  • 02.27.2012 10:11 PM PDT

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Posted by: SatansReverence

Posted by: Blackdog Rker
Successful flick-shoting. Otherwise no button delay (lag).


In normal matchmaking (i.e no campaign/firefight) there is never a button delay regardless of being host or not.

Anyway, the only thing host does for me is reduce the magnetism but never get real lag.

Should of clarified. The first was MM and the other FF. My bad.

  • 02.27.2012 10:12 PM PDT
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Is the faster running speed thing true? The guy told me if we were to have a footrace and he had host, he would win because his Spartan would run about 3% faster.

  • 02.27.2012 10:26 PM PDT
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Posted by: Horse Repairman
RC RuNz the internet. Like the superintendent.

Posted by: SouthPoIe
Clone is an internet God.

Posted by: DerpRoids
RC Clone is the anti-thesis of a lurker.


Posted by: the pib
Is the faster running speed thing true? The guy told me if we were to have a footrace and he had host, he would win because his Spartan would run about 3% faster.

That's definitely false.

  • 02.27.2012 10:30 PM PDT


Posted by: the pib
Is the faster running speed thing true? The guy told me if we were to have a footrace and he had host, he would win because his Spartan would run about 3% faster.


No, it isn't even remotely correct.

  • 02.27.2012 10:30 PM PDT

i heard that if you're host you can fly

  • 02.27.2012 10:30 PM PDT
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No lag and your movements always go first.

  • 02.28.2012 12:04 AM PDT

Welcome to the internet. Joy dies here.

I don't get host - I get lag :(

  • 02.28.2012 12:15 AM PDT

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Having host enables me to kill everyone 100x easier.

  • 02.28.2012 12:30 AM PDT

/s

It does nothing. People are just in denial. Quite pathetic really.

  • 02.28.2012 1:07 AM PDT

Halo 3 host is ridiculous.

  • 02.28.2012 1:12 AM PDT
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I'm listeni- Oh wait I don't give a -blam!- what you have to say.

I am the terminator when I get host.

  • 02.28.2012 1:13 AM PDT

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Posted by: meagsIZbeast
bloom is reduced, and your shots register every time without fail. Also you have the advantage because the game registers everything you do before anyone else. So if you both shoot each other at the same time while one shot, you will get the kill, and most likely wont trade.

Also because your bullets register faster, you may shoot people through walls on their screen because of the latency.
This and this.

  • 02.28.2012 3:11 AM PDT
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  • 02.28.2012 5:12 AM PDT

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