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Subject: Host change problem

Black Ops 2 I run two accounts warmup only at 1.97kdr...real is at 3.77. i'm in master division 4 league play. pm 4 clan inv...must have 2.5 kdr or better

Alright, so I just played my first MM game of Halo 3 in a few months. The only reason I played is because I had a 6 month gold account that is about to expire.

I was winning a gun fight and when the host left it turned me around. The opponent was still facing me, but I was facing away from him. This seems to ALWAYS happen to me. I've very rarely had the same position after a host change.

Does this mean I pulled host? Or does the game just hate me?

  • 10.19.2012 2:36 PM PDT

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I would also like to know whether being turned around after a host change means that you have pulled host or not.

It would make more sense to me that if you stay facing the same direction then you have pulled host.

  • 10.19.2012 2:45 PM PDT

Black Ops 2 I run two accounts warmup only at 1.97kdr...real is at 3.77. i'm in master division 4 league play. pm 4 clan inv...must have 2.5 kdr or better


Posted by: Colossal Dave
I would also like to know whether being turned around after a host change means that you have pulled host or not.

It would make more sense to me that if you stay facing the same direction then you have pulled host.
I guess, but I literally always get put in the wrong leading to many unfair deaths. I'm usually winning the fight and it's just terrible luck on my end.

  • 10.19.2012 2:49 PM PDT

I run Skirmish!!!

I've only been facing the same way a few times but most of the time im always turning to some other direction. I think if your facing the same way you got host. Not sure though

  • 10.20.2012 2:55 AM 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
I've only been facing the same way a few times but most of the time im always turning to some other direction. I think if your facing the same way you got host. Not sure though


Pretty sure this is correct. I read a thread about this a long time ago.....I think that the consensus was that if you're facing the same direction after the drop you're host, like you said. I rarely face the same direction after a drop, and I'm sometimes in a completely different part of the map.

  • 10.20.2012 5:48 AM PDT
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I don't mean to jack this thread but this reminds of another annoying thing with being turned around. Most of the time whenever someone and I exchange melees I get spun around yet my opponent is still facing me. This sucks in mlg. What determines this I mean I can't even get my reticle back to them on 3 sensitivity before they start shooting. I go back in theater and they never got turned.

[Edited on 10.20.2012 7:53 AM PDT]

  • 10.20.2012 7:52 AM PDT

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


Posted by: mczombi
I don't mean to jack this thread but this reminds of another annoying thing with being turned around. Most of the time whenever someone and I exchange melees I get spun around yet my opponent is still facing me. This sucks in mlg. What determines this I mean I can't even get my reticle back to them on 3 sensitivity before they start shooting. I go back in theater and they never got turned.


I guessing that you're just gripping the controller excessively and turning when you don't mean to. Try upping your sensitivity a bit to see if that helps, or just try not to grip the controller and analog sticks so hard in the middle of a fight.

  • 10.20.2012 8:27 AM PDT


Posted by: swvjdirector

Posted by: II gaped II
I've only been facing the same way a few times but most of the time im always turning to some other direction. I think if your facing the same way you got host. Not sure though


Pretty sure this is correct. I read a thread about this a long time ago.....I think that the consensus was that if you're facing the same direction after the drop you're host, like you said. I rarely face the same direction after a drop, and I'm sometimes in a completely different part of the map.

I thought it was the other way around. I´m facing the same direction 90% of the time when the host switches but I´m pretty sure I´m not puling host. People are falling backwards when i snipe them instead of falling sideways and I couldn´t shoot down the flying forerunner stuff on Construct either.

  • 10.20.2012 10:12 AM PDT

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


Posted by: ShootyNinja95

Posted by: swvjdirector

Posted by: II gaped II
I've only been facing the same way a few times but most of the time im always turning to some other direction. I think if your facing the same way you got host. Not sure though


Pretty sure this is correct. I read a thread about this a long time ago.....I think that the consensus was that if you're facing the same direction after the drop you're host, like you said. I rarely face the same direction after a drop, and I'm sometimes in a completely different part of the map.

I thought it was the other way around. I´m facing the same direction 90% of the time when the host switches but I´m pretty sure I´m not puling host. People are falling backwards when i snipe them instead of falling sideways and I couldn´t shoot down the flying forerunner stuff on Construct either.


Huh........maybe I'm wrong then. Although if you were sniping people, did they do a backflip? That means you're host as well.

  • 10.20.2012 2:50 PM PDT

I didn´t see these animations
I´m not sure if the information in this video is correct though

[Edited on 10.20.2012 3:23 PM PDT]

  • 10.20.2012 3:22 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: ShootyNinja95
I didn´t see these animations
I´m not sure if the information in this video is correct though


Yeah, it looks right to me. If you didn't see them, then you probably weren't on host.

  • 10.20.2012 3:51 PM PDT

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If you see connecting to new host when the host quits, you pulled host. If it says selecting new host, you didn't get host.

That's the easiest way to tell.

  • 10.20.2012 7:09 PM PDT

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Posted by: Commview
If you see connecting to new host when the host quits, you pulled host. If it says selecting new host, you didn't get host.

That's the easiest way to tell.


Everybody listen to the Australian.

  • 10.22.2012 1:35 AM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

Posted by: Commview
If you see connecting to new host when the host quits, you pulled host. If it says selecting new host, you didn't get host.

That's the easiest way to tell.
This is very useful.
OT: It happens to a lot of people OP, just find a new game and hope for the best.

  • 10.22.2012 7:20 AM PDT

I can't wait for the day my hustle game don't gotta start this way.
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Skype - Residue

It's the same in Reach too.

  • 10.23.2012 1:22 AM PDT

Black Ops 2 I run two accounts warmup only at 1.97kdr...real is at 3.77. i'm in master division 4 league play. pm 4 clan inv...must have 2.5 kdr or better


Posted by: swvjdirector

Posted by: ShootyNinja95
I didn´t see these animations
I´m not sure if the information in this video is correct though


Yeah, it looks right to me. If you didn't see them, then you probably weren't on host.


The animation way is correct. I thought this was common knowledge. I knew about that since 07 but it's not always easy to pay attention to death animations in a game.

Also, I believe I had host because I was green bar and they were yellow after the host change.

  • 10.23.2012 2:51 PM PDT

I run Skirmish!!!


Posted by: st3ven9640

Posted by: Commview
If you see connecting to new host when the host quits, you pulled host. If it says selecting new host, you didn't get host.

That's the easiest way to tell.


Everybody listen to the Australian.


foreigners know more about host because they seem to always get it around me.

Like last night for example in TS, the one guy from the netherlands gets host over 7 other players including myself from the US. He's green bar and the rest of us are yellow on both teams, he gets 20+ kills and thinks he's a god at halo. Same thing happened the next game with him as well. My question, how does the one foreigner get host out of 7 U.S players multiple games in a row. Its annoying when my nades take 2 seconds to release from my hand

[Edited on 10.23.2012 7:00 PM PDT]

  • 10.23.2012 6:51 PM PDT