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Avoid dedicated servers, Host every single game, Have fun.


Sgt-Greco

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First off let me share with you guys, that yesterday I had a blast with Black Ops 2. It was something amazing I've never experienced before. 

I hosted EVERY SINGLE GAME during all my gaming session. The picture below shows my connection status which remained the same game after game.

 

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I've been trying for months to find a way to avoid laggy dedicated servers. For me (living in Southern Europe) connecting to a server in middle or Northern Europe is a disaster.  I can't compete with the other guys, as I'm always a split second behind.

But last night, things changed dramatically . I had the best games of my short BO2 carrer :)

 

As you may already know, dedicated servers (yellow circles)  are scattered around the world as shown in the picture bellow .

 

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This is what you have to do:

 

step 1:

- party with a friend (one is enough)

step 2:

- search for a game, positioning your GF in a dedi server-free area. I have marked green circles for Europe and North America as an example

step 3:

- set your PA a little lower than the lowest value you can get a dedicated server. For example if you've noticed that the lowest ping you get a server is 50, set it to 45.

step 4:

- Wait for the FIRST game to end regardless you have a good or bad connection.

step 5:

- As soon as the First game ends, stay in the lobby waiting for the next one and watch carefully for the "finding new host" message during the matchmaking.

- If you take host, it'll remain that way in the next consecutive games.

 

 

The above method worked 100% for me, and  I was the host in every single game ever after, so I suppose "it just happened or placebo" are ruled out.

Hope this is not considered cheating or something.

 

Good luck and let me know what do you think

 

Greco

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I think this is a cool workaround, though, I remember the days of taking host back in Halo 2 so your mods could be the active ones lol. The only problem is that if everyone does this, nobody can do this effectively. I wonder who would win if two people tried this in the same lobby...

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Sorry, you're right. I updated the OP. Find a PA value that won't get you a server. I think the correct word is threshold. (sorry English is not my native lang).

Don't forget to wait and the most important, party with a friend. Did you play in a party?

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i never see all those dedis when i turn on bo2 or aw 

Yeah kevo they only come on for me when I first enable my GF,all of them anyway.But during the course of gaming different one's will pop up on the map,but only get all of them right off the bat.

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Has anyone tried this with 0 ping assist? If so maybe worth trying?

I always set PA to zero but again I'm about 80 actual miles from the dedi bank in Illinois.

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Method worked for me last night, but finding games was very hard. It seems to me that dedis took over the entire game (unfortunately) .

Iain, Fraser, I'm under the impression that "strict mode", is way too strict. I don't know how it works, and maybe I'm saying silly things, but is there any way to "loosen it up" a little? 

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