MW2 MP - The Ugly Truth and a Better Way to Represent Pings

CS Nation's Site Director has revealed this sad fact regarding the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 (also on Xbox 360, PS3): Unless you are the host, your Ping sucks, basically.

Apparently, looks are truly deceiving. The next time you see three bars out of your ping, don't go sighing in relief just yet. That actually means your ping is the pits.

Said Zips, the Site Director:

The sad truth? You might wanna pound a few beers before you read this:

• The host is immediately obvious, he's the guy with 0-20 ping (full green).
• I usually connect with about 101-200+ms.
• Most people are connected at 200+ms (3 or less bars on normal cfg settings).
• On regular cfg settings, 4 bars means up to 0-100 ping, 3 bars 101-200, 2 bars 201-300, 1 bar is 301+.

If you go into a server and everyone's ping appears to be good, but there's still a lot of apparent lag and rubber-banding going on, this may be the reason why.

Here's what the Host Advantage looks like:

If you want an honest reflection of your ping, you might want to try this:

• Navigate to the folder: 'program filessteamsteamappscommoncall of duty modern warfare 2players' and open the file config_mp.cfg
• Change scoresping_interval from 100 to 20, and maxbars from 4 to 10 (10 is the max).
• This means that each of the 10 bars represents 20ms, with full green being 20ms or lower, and 1 red being 200ms or higher.

Source: QJ.Net

I aprecciate your effort but people will still buy the game.dont-read-this

Wow, that's some big ping fail :| Too bad the singe-player is so good that few people actually care about multiplayer...

Wow that's horrible I live in Costa Rica and I still get 150< ping when playing Team Fortress 2 against people from chicago, anything above 250 is absolutely awful.

If the bars work the same way on the PC as they do on the 360 or PS3 then I call BS. I have no problems at 3 bars on the 360 version. I am an avid play of TF2 (in recent times) and many other PC games that have dedi servers, I can feel the differences that PC elitists claim console games are so numb too, the game just honestly runs great. alextherussian

The Title = MW2 MP - The " UGLT " Truth And A Better Way To Represent Pings

I lol'd a little.

unless he's saying the PC ver is Laggier than the 360.

So basically: I hate gaming over 70ms, I will hate this game. I played halo 3 on xbl a few times, and I couldn't stand the lag, of course I had full bars.

unless he's saying the PC ver is Laggier than the 360.

digitalman42

[QUOTE="digitalman42"]

unless he's saying the PC ver is Laggier than the 360.

kilerchese

If the bars work the same way on the PC as they do on the 360 or PS3 then I call BS. I have no problems at 3 bars on the 360 version. I am an avid play of TF2 (in recent times) and many other PC games that have dedi servers, I can feel the differences that PC elitists claim console games are so numb too, the game just honestly runs great. alextherussian

[QUOTE="kilerchese"]

[QUOTE="digitalman42"]What I'm saying is that anyone thats used to playing on 50-80ms ping DEDICATED SERVERS servers will not enjoy MP unless they can get a 0-100 ping to the host.

blade55555

If the bars work the same way on the PC as they do on the 360 or PS3 then I call BS. I have no problems at 3 bars on the 360 version. I am an avid play of TF2 (in recent times) and many other PC games that have dedi servers, I can feel the differences that PC elitists claim console games are so numb too, the game just honestly runs great. alextherussian