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Subject: Is it normal to get lots of shots not registering on your own host?

I played a couple of games in the team snipers playlist and I´m pretty sure I got host in those games but many of my shots didn´t register for some reason.
my teammates and opponents had no problems with this and everyone was on greenbar.
Is this normal?

[Edited on 08.10.2012 3:25 PM PDT]

  • 08.10.2012 3:15 PM PDT

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were the players foreigner's or are you a foreigner? If your getting bloodshots then you are not the one with host.

  • 08.10.2012 4:16 PM PDT
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You can get some packet loss if the client is a long distance/connects badly to the host (you). You can send out the packets all day, but if they have a terrible connection, they can't send them back. That is why you get people glitching around, even if you're the host. They send the packets fast enough for you to receive them at position x and then they send more packets at position y, but their connection is so bad that all positions in between are not registered by the host. The host cannot distribute the players position to the rest of the clients, so it creates glitching, bloodshots, etc.

  • 08.11.2012 12:45 AM PDT

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"That there's some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."


Posted by: simon5247
You can get some packet loss if the client is a long distance/connects badly to the host (you). You can send out the packets all day, but if they have a terrible connection, they can't send them back. That is why you get people glitching around, even if you're the host. They send the packets fast enough for you to receive them at position x and then they send more packets at position y, but their connection is so bad that all positions in between are not registered by the host. The host cannot distribute the players position to the rest of the clients, so it creates glitching, bloodshots, etc.


Couldn't have explained it better. However, if NOBODY let your shots register, you probably weren't host. Sometime I've thought I'm host all game until I've shot a fusion coil and it takes ages to explode.

  • 08.11.2012 12:17 PM PDT

"What are we holding on to, Sam?"
"That there's some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."


Posted by: II gaped II
were the players foreigner's or are you a foreigner?


All depends on where you're from. ;)

  • 08.11.2012 12:18 PM PDT

I´m Swedish. Maybe i didn´t host, I were getting both bloodshots and weird headshots but after reading Simons post I´m starting to think those shots were lagshots. The thing that buggs me is that the security camera in swordroom was following me one game.

  • 08.11.2012 2:52 PM PDT

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Posted by: swvjdirector

Posted by: II gaped II
were the players foreigner's or are you a foreigner?


All depends on where you're from. ;)


yeah welllll bungie is based in washington so anyone outside of the US is a foreigner :p

  • 08.11.2012 7:28 PM PDT
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To check for host there's multiple ways, but the easiest way is to click RRY really fast with the BR. If you do it right, the BR will shoot on your back. Switch back to the BR and if you have 3 bullets missing, you're the host. If they refund, you're not host.

  • 08.12.2012 1:08 AM PDT

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That explains it- You're foreign. Foreigners are too stupid to tell whether or not they're actually host.

  • 08.12.2012 9:55 PM PDT
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Posted by: st3ven9640
That explains it- You're foreign. Foreigners are too stupid to tell whether or not they're actually host.
You're a foreigner too, Canadian.

  • 08.13.2012 6:30 AM PDT
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i plai 4 fun gtfo

Posted by: simon5247
To check for host there's multiple ways, but the easiest way is to click RRY really fast with the BR. If you do it right, the BR will shoot on your back. Switch back to the BR and if you have 3 bullets missing, you're the host. If they refund, you're not host.

Or you can just look at how people die when you snipe them. If they always fall forward instead of backwards, you have host.

  • 08.13.2012 8:45 AM PDT
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Posted by: Loltastrophe
Posted by: simon5247
To check for host there's multiple ways, but the easiest way is to click RRY really fast with the BR. If you do it right, the BR will shoot on your back. Switch back to the BR and if you have 3 bullets missing, you're the host. If they refund, you're not host.
Or you can just look at how people die when you snipe them. If they always fall forward instead of backwards, you have host.
They fall to the side when you're host, rarely do they fall forward.

  • 08.13.2012 5:53 PM PDT


Posted by: simon5247
Posted by: Loltastrophe
Posted by: simon5247
To check for host there's multiple ways, but the easiest way is to click RRY really fast with the BR. If you do it right, the BR will shoot on your back. Switch back to the BR and if you have 3 bullets missing, you're the host. If they refund, you're not host.
Or you can just look at how people die when you snipe them. If they always fall forward instead of backwards, you have host.
They fall to the side when you're host, rarely do they fall forward.

Is it 100% accurate that you´re off host if they´re falling backwards?

  • 08.15.2012 8:38 AM PDT

Bullets register a lot more on me when I'm host than when I'm not, usually I prefer not to have host.

  • 08.15.2012 1:12 PM PDT
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Posted by: ShootyNinja95
Posted by: simon5247
Posted by: Loltastrophe
Posted by: simon5247
To check for host there's multiple ways, but the easiest way is to click RRY really fast with the BR. If you do it right, the BR will shoot on your back. Switch back to the BR and if you have 3 bullets missing, you're the host. If they refund, you're not host.
Or you can just look at how people die when you snipe them. If they always fall forward instead of backwards, you have host.
They fall to the side when you're host, rarely do they fall forward.
Is it 100% accurate that you´re off host if they´re falling backwards?
They'll never fall backwards on host.

  • 08.15.2012 9:01 PM PDT

Ok, thanks

[Edited on 08.16.2012 10:18 AM PDT]

  • 08.16.2012 10:16 AM PDT