[CoD Black Ops 2] News and Discussion

I’m going to go “out there” with this comment which will understandably get a lot of people’s backs up but I felt it’s only right to give my honest opinion.

A lot of these comments about lag compensation make it appear as though the issue is very frequent, almost on a 1:1 ratio.

For me, I use a 60MB fibre optic broadband (I have access to 100mb but I’ve no need to use it, even then there has been next to no difference in my experience of multiplayer between the two).

I play with a group of guys I play alongside that will mix between HCTF and groundwar, or if I find myself on my own I’ll play some core HQ.

Now before I go on further, and without sounding egotistical I’m ranked 2421 in the world overall based on score, and I’ve a current average SPM of 381 (it varies between game types on HCTF I have 409 on HQ I have 387 etc, (think it maybe went down last evening to 351 due to some messing around).

I’m an objective player so I find myself aiming for the objective to arm/defend/capture, whatever, and make kills from the point of the objective. My K/D is only 1.00/0.99 at the moment, but I can honestly say this is because as I’ve said, I’m more objective based, I would rather hide and grab the objective and then engage the enemy.

Most gun battles 1vs1 I win unless over range as I’ll use either an SMG or the KAP-40 (single wield), however once in a blue moon (I think for example a week ago) there was a game that I seemed much slower than my opponents. There was no noticeable lag other than my team mates where complaining of something being very seriously wrong with the server, next game was the same, so we backed out and re-entered into a different lobby and it seemed fine afterwards, its happened once or twice since then .

I think it’s also important to add that I’m not host very often, but when I am I still don’t notice any difference.

It would be something we wouldn’t normally complain about simply because it’s not something we notice often, generally the enemies are much slower anyway so even if there was some slight lag compensation it wouldn’t matter much . That said, I know for a few guys picked this up over the last day or two and who haven’t mentioned anything about lag or any lag related issues in game. If they have a bad game they know it’s down to their level of skill during that game than anything else.

I think the term lag compensation and latency issues are banded about all too often and it’s because we are all too aware of the issue that makes it so easy to blame it on.

For me, a lot of players complaining about these issues constantly are those who have not yet adjusted to the speed and pace of BlOps2 as opposed to BlOps1.

BlOps2s’ pace rivals that of MW2/3 and so I personally find that this game is better handled by those who are used to a lot going on at once than those who approach with caution.

My difference is that I hated MW2/3, yet my style of play has not changed since BlOps, it was hard getting used to the speed of the players, and the aggressive attack/defence nature of the players (as opposed to half ass-ing it in the middle of the map), but I got there, adapted and now it works.

TL;DR

I think there’s too much blame being shifted onto this lag compensation issue. Yes there can be lag issues on a yellow bar, but nothing as bad that it should impact your style of play by anything more than that a few extra deaths.

I play with a clan of 81 Irish members, at least 30 of those are regularly active on blops and maybe only 5-10 of those have ever experienced this issue, or at least told us about it, and at that maybe only 1-2 people get it badly per evening.

My point is, I don’t play much outside the community but I think that based on the scale I have at hand the problem isn’t as big as everyone here is making it out to be, to me, it simply seems like a lot of whining and moaning about a bad game or two following on from maybe what the player thinks was a “good” or at least “average” game.

Don’t get me wrong, I see people complaining all over the internet about this issue, but again, to me, it looks as though it’s just another normal player having another normal bad game and looking at something to blame it on.

Then again I could be totally wrong and just extremely fortunate, but some of the top players in BlOps2 have various youtube vids and blogs etc and browsing some of them I can’t see lag compensation being a major issue, it may have been touched on, but it’s never a recurring theme, and as such doesn’t appear to be a huge issue, at least not with them.

I sincerely apologise about the length of this post, it went on a bit more than expected. I’d just like to add that I’m open to criticism of my opinion but it is only that, I don’t claim to know everything if anything about the technical aspect of lag compensation, just enough to know it doesn’t appear to affect myself and the group I play with in a big way.