I still think using a local server is best, if only because you know at least someone will be able to type (or talk) is at least decipherable English...

That�s how you know the matchmaking is useless. There must be 50,000+ kids in the UK playing COD online this Christmas, yet my lobby is always populated with mainly �El_Dingus� or �MuchoS_Gaseous�.

No logic there.

I agree about COD mate. I only buy it for the zombie maps.

But it has proved useful in fiddling with my latency, as nothing else has such a fast turnaround time between kills and deaths.

But I can assure you that other than the distance you�re required to travel to get back into the action, BF has always played the same way for me in 90% of lobbies....repeated insta-death and terrible hit registration. I can remember only two or three games with you and Marko where it played nice, but literally only two or three. The other 200 were [censored].

Hopefully, this is going to fix that for me, and I�ll be able to experience all that Battlefield goodnss you keep on about.

Edited by mrnelster (Fri 29-Dec-17 11:28:57)

Can't beat velvet, especially blue...

I had you down as more of a brown gingham man Toady...

In reply to a post by mrnelster:

Literally can�t kill anything, in any game on the PlayStation. Spent years telling players that they are only as good as their bad connection, but it always fell on deaf ears (until recently, Toady probably being the only exception).

So yesterday, while the rest of the family were away for the day, I decided to experiment. I�ve always been plugged into the router with a 9 or 10 ms ping. Instead, I stole the home plug from upstairs and plugged it in the same room, in the socket behind the sofa. The experiment consisted of three stages:

Stage 1 - homeplug behind the sofa
Stage 2 - homelplug behind the sofa with a cushion on top of it
Stage 3 - homeplug behind the sofa with two cushions on top of it

Results:

Stage 1 - dramatic reduction in the frequency of insta-death encounters
Stage 2 - BANG ON!!!
Stage 3 - noticeably increased judder in game

Video Evidence

Note from the video that there are still aim assist issues and bullet sponges, but take my word for it, insta-death has been dramatically reduced.

Moral of the story - don�t fall for the �fast fibre connection for gaming� marketing. It�s only relevant on privately managed servers. Anything else is at the mercy of the game�s developers; or more pertinently perhaps, the publisher.

Since MW3 you have been actively penalised for having a low ping when playing COD, its all in the name of balance and fairness folks.

My ping often jumps to the 100-200 range in Battlefield but I don't notice any problems, if it didn't have the annoying network warning things flash up on screen I probably wouldn't know. A good/normal ping for me is 30 odd.

Be interesting to see what difference there is when we eventually get FTTP enabled here.

Edited by astateoftrance (Sat 30-Dec-17 20:48:18)

Yes, I have heard CoD matchmaking isn't good. MW3 was okay when I played it many years okay, but when people started to move onto other things, all you had left was the dodgy players...

The last one I played was Advanced Warfare. It was okay for a while, but eventually it just grew tiresome and was promptly deleted from my Steam account and license list, never to darken my account again.

Edited by deleted (Sat 30-Dec-17 22:26:56)

Yes, KF2 is good for that. Just a shame than all zombie spawning is in set positions...

Na. I'm the embodiment of Adonis...

Since MW3 you have been actively penalised for having a low ping when playing COD, its all in the name of balance and fairness folks.

Except it�s not just COD. Everybody�s darling Battlefield is just as bad. They nerfed the auto rotation a bit in the summer, but it doesn�t make any difference to those who don�t get any in the first place. It�s clearly a connection based issue, but is it ISP based, or the developer�s fault?

Watch this video

Some here experience similar aim assist, but a pound to a pinch they won�t admit it.

Now watch this video

That is my experience for 99% of every game. Usually no rotation at all, or it locks on in front of, or behind the player. It takes 2 ridiculous hours of play to get from level 12 to level 13.

Boring.

You should change your hit marker colours so that you can see where you're hitting them.
I occasionally get the aim assist dragging the gun around but mostly it's down to me to hit the target


Your aim is way off
Accuracy 8.437%
http://bf1stats.com/ps4/nelster

Switch to support and try the Lewis Gun Suppressive

Your scout class is very accurate
SMLE MKIII Marksman 76.47%

Edited by deleted (Sun 31-Dec-17 18:28:16)