New player, so much lag

[dreamflashflood]

Hey guys,
I'm experiencing so much lag. Are there any fixes anyone know of?

 

[UF ShadowTeddy]

What kind of lag are you experiencing, Game lag or connection/Server lag?

If its connection lag then let us know where your located in the world. If its actual game fps lag, then post your PC specs here

 

[dreamflashflood]

Game lag, I'm from Australia. I don't know if I can see the latency, but it feels like 5000ms atleast. It's unplayable I can hit a player 4 times in the back before it registers as an assassination

 

[dreamflashflood]

Is there anything I can start with to try and eliminate this lag?

 

[Sod]

Yeah look, welcome to Australia.

 

[dreamflashflood]

Yeah lol, jokes aside though, there must be something I can do. Yes, we all experience lag when playing on an international server. But not to the level I'm experiencing. Like I said, I can assassinate someone 4 times before it registers, the game is unplayable.

Are there no ways of trying to rectify this?
Could it be a port? An antivirus?...

 

[mills]

there are australian servers, have you tried playing on those?

 

[dreamflashflood]

Hey mills, occasionally I see one Australian server. There are roughly 15 servers right? Is that how many you guys see?

 

[dreamflashflood]

Is there nothing I can do? Give me some closure here lol. You install the game, and hope for the best??

 

[Hambo161]

Unfortunately, the ping will be high if you're connecting to something far away (Europe, US, Colombia). However, there is an Australian server if I am not mistaken - the game should be much playable over there.

 

[Sod]

The only way to have "low ping" is play on Australian servers that are being hosted.
Even then, Australian internet is notoriously bad in comparison to many countries.

 

[UF ShadowTeddy]

Sod you should start an aussie halo community

That way, you'll be able to get more players on aus dedis (and by extension have more aus dedis)

 

[Sod]

I could try starting one up, I'll look into it when I have some spare time on my hands.

 

[Proty]

All the dedi's are crap these days. There used to be a time where I remember all the dedi's had amazing connection. Even US hosts felt perfectly fine for me. Then, some weeks/months back, already can't remember, that changed with one of the updates. Been going worse and worse ever since, Nuke has mentioned this once and got shot down.
I really hope this get's focused on in the near future, cuz it's the main reason people leave the project.

I'd gladly go back to the point where the connection was great and give up a few perks we've gotten in the mean time...

 

[UF ShadowTeddy]

Server hosts just need to restart their servers every day proty. I do that on mine, and usually its fine.

 

[taybabanxoi]

I'm from viet nam and all server is over 200ms for me. ofcourse my bad location, bad connection