Major COD4 lag issues

I find Rainbow Six Vegas 2's lag to be more of a nuisance.

Because cod4 picks the host that lives near the majority of the other players, the furthur away you live from a heavily populated country (usa, uk, etc) the worse off you are lag wise. In halo there is an option for local players online, but not in cod4. Thus you lag. It's not the hosts fault, its not your fault, its the develops fault not for implementing the most BASIC online feature know to man.

The reason the ps3 version never lags is because its region locked online and so you can online play ppl from your region. So obviously very rarely will a host be a far distance form you.

I find Rainbow Six Vegas 2's lag to be more of a nuisance.

ragek1ll589

The only lag I've seen is at the very beginning of a match when everyone's bunched together, and it only happens for a second or so.

PS3 version BTW.

My connection is perfect.... its clearly the game, im talking about the game being out of sync by over a full second quite often.. its readily apparent on the replays....

And agreeing with whats posted above, this game has tons of other broken unbalanced features, jugranaut and martydom causing grenades to go everywhere.. the amount of players allowed in team death match is too many.

for me (i play on 360), about 1/4 games are laggy to some degree. I think its pretty clear that the 360 version lags more than the ps3 though. I think its the peer 2 peer thing that the 360 version uses instead of dedicated servers. At the same time though, Halo 3 doesn't lag this often and it uses peer 2 peer. so idk.

Im not being funny, but I really don't find it laggy. I have played loads of online games on both the PC and 360, and I don't think COD4 lags really that much at all.

Im sure others have noticed this, but COD4 must have the worst lag I have ever witnessed in a video game......the following happens constantly and I feel like recording game play just to capture this BS. I walk into a doorway, shotgun ready.. see an unsuspecting victim running toward me and bang, shot is fired... I drop dead.. the shot fired the minute I turned in the doorway, now I watch the wonderful replay which shows the same scene in some sort of altnerate reality where I never even turned in the doorway, yet was getting shot by the same player in the face with an uzi... im tired of this crap, the game is broke!Bdking57

Im sure others have noticed this, but COD4 must have the worst lag I have ever witnessed in a video game......the following happens constantly and I feel like recording game play just to capture this BS. I walk into a doorway, shotgun ready.. see an unsuspecting victim running toward me and bang, shot is fired... I drop dead.. the shot fired the minute I turned in the doorway, now I watch the wonderful replay which shows the same scene in some sort of altnerate reality where I never even turned in the doorway, yet was getting shot by the same player in the face with an uzi... im tired of this crap, the game is broke!Bdking57

for me (i play on 360), about 1/4 games are laggy to some degree. I think its pretty clear that the 360 version lags more than the ps3 though. I think its the peer 2 peer thing that the 360 version uses instead of dedicated servers. At the same time though, Halo 3 doesn't lag this often and it uses peer 2 peer. so idk.

Hihatrider87

There is no lagSnowboarder99

THERE IS NO BATHROOM!!

Dude I know exactly what you mean. I play COD4 on ps3 and I'll see some person looking the opposite direction of me and I'll shoot him and it wont even effect him and he'll shoot me and I'll die. That happens ALL THE TIME.

Sometimes it's worse, I'll put 5 sniper bullets in a guy that's standing idle and he goes uneffected then I'll be reloaded and as soon as I zoom back to where he was standing it shows him looking at me with a sniper and he takes one shot and I die.

Honestly this is getting rediculous. Between all of the lag and all of the "Server connection timed out" crap, I'm tired of it all. I'm tired of putting 2 entire clips of AK-47u ammo w/stopping power into people at point blank and them just knifing you.

I'm tired of the game ending right in the middle of a good match just because the "host" decided he had to go take a piss.

I'm tired of calling an airstrike on a completely different side of the map and it coming and bombing me and I die.

I'M REALLY TIRED OF SELECTING "FIND GAME" ON THE MENU AND IT PUTTING ME IN A MATCH WITHOUT WARNING AND THE MATCH BEING MORE THAN HALF WAY OVER AND IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO WIN (i.e. free for all, leader with 120 pts.) AND I GET A LOSS ON MY RECORD FOR NO REASON AT ALL

This crap is bull**** and Inifinity Ward really needs to work this stuff out. It's frustrating, not to mention sickening and it needs to be fixed.

I agree with you wagexslave!

(For the Record I can only speak to the XBox 360 version, I have never played it on PC or PS3)

I also have been have LAG issues described in this thread, but only for the last week and a half. Before that it was more of a rare issue, now its almost every game.

The only thing I do not agree with totally in this forum is people stating that the game is unbalanced. I find it very balanced. I personally never use Juggernaut and Martyrdom, for I think it cheapens the game, however I love when others use them. I love killing people using Juggernaut. I assume most people will have it when I take a shot, and when I get the "+" icon I know to get putting bullets into them. Also I assume everyone has Martyrdom so I do not get near them right away after they die, or I always try to sprint away if I am at close range when they die.

I think the game is very balanced for those who like strategy and having to think in a game.

For the most part I agree with just about everything in this forum, except for it being an unbalanced game.

I also thank DopeyDavoidfor his explanation, it was very nice to learn that.

Its not lag your describing.

It latency. Its what happens on PTP networks.

No more like COD4 has major hit detection issues.

I still dont know how you get a kill in 2 shots when you hit them in the legs.

I've seen next to no lag.

Then again, I've been playing on dedicated servers.

For free.

:P

Dude I know exactly what you mean. I play COD4 on ps3 and I'll see some person looking the opposite direction of me and I'll shoot him and it wont even effect him and he'll shoot me and I'll die. That happens ALL THE TIME.

Sometimes it's worse, I'll put 5 sniper bullets in a guy that's standing idle and he goes uneffected then I'll be reloaded and as soon as I zoom back to where he was standing it shows him looking at me with a sniper and he takes one shot and I die.

Honestly this is getting rediculous. Between all of the lag and all of the "Server connection timed out" crap, I'm tired of it all. I'm tired of putting 2 entire clips of AK-47u ammo w/stopping power into people at point blank and them just knifing you.

I'm tired of the game ending right in the middle of a good match just because the "host" decided he had to go take a piss.

I'm tired of calling an airstrike on a completely different side of the map and it coming and bombing me and I die.

I'M REALLY TIRED OF SELECTING "FIND GAME" ON THE MENU AND IT PUTTING ME IN A MATCH WITHOUT WARNING AND THE MATCH BEING MORE THAN HALF WAY OVER AND IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO WIN (i.e. free for all, leader with 120 pts.) AND I GET A LOSS ON MY RECORD FOR NO REASON AT ALL

This crap is bull**** and Inifinity Ward really needs to work this stuff out. It's frustrating, not to mention sickening and it needs to be fixed.

wagexslave

I still love the game but agreed, on all acounts.

Its not lag your describing.

It latency. Its what happens on PTP networks.

redstormrisen

Actually LAG is Latency, and Latency can happen on ANY TYPE of network, it is not subject to only PTP Networks.

Just to be clear, LAG is a term used by gamers to refer to delays noticeable to the user. It is a symptom where the result of an action appears later than expected. This is exactly what is being complained about here. While the pure definition of Latency is a time delay between the moment something is initiated, and the moment one of its effects begins or becomes detectable. Wow that sounds like LAG to me. There are different types of latency BTW, and they are defined slightly different depending on what they are applied to, especially when talking about different types of networks.

It lags once in awhile, but i wont say its the most lag of any game at the moment.

But i do see some problems that i dont think are lag, when you watch the replay and it looks totally differnt then what you saw. I dont care about getting beat in a gun fight, but when i creep up behind someone and shoot 3-4 times *i dont care if they all miss* and then when you watch the replay it shows you not shoot at all when you where behind the guy. Im not to sure what to call that.

Hi kozzy1234, that is a symptom of lag. It will cause the various people playing to be a little out of sync with each other. So when you precieved yourself to be sneeking and then shooting, the other person being out of sync with you because of lag, saw you sneeking and shot before you shot from their perception. What you described is exactly what we are complaining about here.

Althought complaining about it doesn't do much good in a forum, we should be sending e-mails to the company who wrote the game Activision and Infinity Ward. Or at the least be talking about it in their forums (http://www.infinityward.com/community/forum/) where the people who can do something about it may actually read about it. :)