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Subject: All Australians respond to this!!!

Youre not Master Chief, but that's OK...

Xbox live has too much lag when playing halo 2 from Australia, give examples as to how xbox live or halo 3 may overcome this.

This is not a Halo 3 issue. Sorry, but game designers can't repeal the speed of light.
-- Steve


[Edited on 7/8/2006 by Anton P Nym]

  • 07.08.2006 3:36 AM PDT
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Don't pay XBL. Problem solved.

  • 07.08.2006 3:47 AM PDT
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i have had this problem while playing against Americans, first their right infront of u, next their behind u with a shotgun they picked up in the lag time and shot u and ran of before the game can catch up.

but i dont know how this can be fixed, if it can be, but i hope it is looked at so people in other countries can play over live with the same smothness as others

  • 07.08.2006 3:47 AM PDT
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Posted by: Bapa
Don't pay XBL. Problem solved.


This guy's right. I didn't play xbl till i got a 360 and i played halo 2. then it ran out and i don't want 2 spend money renewing it. My friend's pressuring me 2 renew it so i can join his clan but it isn't worth the money. The lag's horrible anyway.

  • 07.08.2006 4:07 AM PDT
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another way is emagine you live in tasmania like me, we can't even get xbl because there's no braudband unless you live right in the middle of a big city.
SO QUITE YOUR -blam!-EN.

  • 07.08.2006 4:18 AM PDT
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I used to play Halo2 all the time link'd up with mates on Xbox, never played it online till i got the 360 and a month free. I liked and disliked it, sometimes was fine and other times was alittle bad.
But since i've got gold now, i haven't realy put the game in. Being playing to many new 360 games to worry about the old, but i might give it a go again.

  • 07.08.2006 4:22 AM PDT
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yeah, i dont have xbl but i use the system link and play 12 player.

its close enough

  • 07.08.2006 4:40 AM PDT
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charger get out of my house you poser

  • 07.08.2006 4:51 AM PDT
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Yeah this seems to be an ongoing problem with most out of US gamers on live while trying to connect with most games of halo 2 (as far as I know, I played a number of Ghost Recon 2 games with soem british friends of mine and had much less trouble for some reason).
I think one of the biggest misconception out of this is that a number of foreign players have got it in their heads that most americans enjoy their little lag advantage but amongst most of my friends and those in the real world we usually just see it as a hinderance in the way of a good challenge.
I have had a number of outside north american players insult me personally for having a better connection even when one of my british friends with me is having almost as bad lag as him.

I really hope halo 3 has a descriminite search option which allows you to only choose matchmade games from your region to get a better connection for people who have really hard times with the current connections (so long as they still can connect normally if they want to). I have stopped using xbox live for other reasons but if I had severe lag issues every game that were not solvable by me then I would most definitely ditch xbox live.

  • 07.08.2006 5:01 AM PDT

Regional matchmaking could be a possibilty. It's latency, not lag you're talking about. Check out this thread.

  • 07.08.2006 5:33 AM PDT

My Stats



"my name is random bungie forum moderator, my special power is to delete productive threads because they offend me because im a crybaby. off to give props to stupid h3 conspiracy theories"

step 1) get job

step 2) move

  • 07.08.2006 5:34 AM PDT

Posted by: gorrilaismynm
step 1) get job

step 2) move

Move to play xbox live? Yeah nice priorities.

  • 07.08.2006 5:39 AM PDT

My Stats



"my name is random bungie forum moderator, my special power is to delete productive threads because they offend me because im a crybaby. off to give props to stupid h3 conspiracy theories"

since he cares enough about a game he bought over a year ago to complain about it this far down the road, i believe it is a splendid solution.

  • 07.08.2006 5:41 AM PDT
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we need australian servers because ther is more ozys playin than u think



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  • 07.08.2006 6:02 AM PDT
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"but you already knew that, I mean, how couldn't you?

Only when no Human brick is left atop another, shall we be satisfied with your destruction.

The problem isn't solely Australian, i have got some lag/latency probs playing Americans and i'm in Scotland.

oh, and gorrila dude, not helpful, really not.

  • 07.08.2006 6:07 AM PDT

Posted by: Bapa
Don't pay XBL. Problem solved.

How about STFU?

  • 07.08.2006 6:59 AM PDT

yeah it can get rough at times but for the most part its fine. ill be upgrading my broadband in a month to 17 mb/s down and 128kb/s up so that should help with the distance of the countries ;)

  • 07.08.2006 7:16 AM PDT

you could play XBC. i like XBLs MM better though.

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  • 07.08.2006 7:33 AM PDT
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yeah i agree my fellow aussies, the lag is terrible, but you just gotta be that much faster, so it's a challenge, and when you win a laggy game, it makes it so much better when you rub it in their faces. I just moved to london from perth and i tell ya there aint much lag over here, a grenade actually gets thrown when you press left trigger. Not a second after. ITS GREAT!!!
Sniper shots hit, shotguns work, its choice.

  • 07.08.2006 8:16 AM PDT