when you play gears online someone has to host when hosting your xbox acts as the server for the rest of the players. what this means is that you basicly have 0 lag while everyone else does. In gears this makes your weapons stronger faster and you will be able to take more hits
No theres no easy way to fix it other than Epic setting up dedicated servers. Epic has addressed this issue ad nauseum, and there will be no update to correct it. It's quite common with many online games, not just Gears of War. And no the weapons AREN'T STRONGER, there is just no delay for the host which makes him much more accurate.
They are stronger, at least the lancer is. You can shoot someone point blank as host and they will go down faster than point blank not as host...Carbon_
They go down faster because more bullets hit them in less time due to no delay, not because they're more powerful.
well, let's just say that the host gets a whole new armor and some powerful firepower... i know this, i hosted alotsandroDX
This is one of the many reasons I can not stand this game anymore. I am pretty good and so is everyone I play with. There is no way to be good at this game!! Yea i can own noobs but with people close to the same skill level its a toss up. Made the game just lame for me. Not only is there the host avantage but the weapons are not consistant sometimes more powerful than other times. Ever shoot some 5 times and no down and sometimes one time and they explode. Im over this game, Im sure I have 2 or 300 hrs in it online.Â
Gears of War has no dedicated serves, and when someone hosts a game, everyone who joins the game runs off of that person's connection. The host's connection is PERFECT, and everyone else's can be almost as good (but usually not nearly as good), but never equal. The host's advantage is that, since the host has no lag, the host's bullets go exactly where they want them to go and everyone else has a delay
I have heard (and beleive)that the main cause behind host advantage is that Gears uses host-side hit detection, meaning that everyone sends there shooting data to the host and he determines if they hit anything, meaning that the shooting data has to travel before being resolved and has lag. Lots of other games (such as Halo 2) have client-side hit detection, which has each player determine if they hit someone, and if they did tell the host that they hit someone. Thismakes host advantage and bullet lag less obvious, but has disadvantages too, such as being able tokill players that look like they are in the open because of lagbut have since moved behind a wall.
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