johnnytran

I think if you can force a server to give you a ping between 50-70ms you should ok more often than not. Ever since I started paying attention to connection issues in cod, I found that I always struggled against people living in a city around 1000km away from our servers. I believe they get a 40-50 ping. MW19 was particularly bad against these people - I ended up running with a group from this city and the main guy had the type of connection where we'd be running together, see a few people, I'd shoot at one but he'd manage to somehow steal my kill after having killed the other person. It was like I was playing slightly in the past lol, the guy I shot at was probably already dead when I started shooting. I'd understand something like this happening if I was playing on an old TV where there's a delay but not on a gaming monitor..

Couldn't get a good connection in the beta at all. Second weekend was slightly playable but the first I probably had a total of 5 matches if I combined all the partial matches I played, it was that bad. I'm in AU, we only have 1 datacentre here for cod which is in the same state as me. Can't force anything further away because it's completely unplayable. You guys in Europe are lucky having more options to test out. One thing I noticed playing around with the bandwidth allocation, the menu in game would read my full bandwidth no matter what I did. I tried only prioritising 30000-65535 udp to avoid the ports which would bypass the bandwidth check in previous titles but it didn't work this time. So maybe they are probing the connection another way to detect bandwidth or my R2 was just playing up.

If they got rid of SBMM a lot more people would play and stick around like the old days IMO. My guess is the only players they are retaining now are the cod fans that play it every year no matter what and the lower skilled players with disposable cash/parents CC. Even though there's a lot less people playing than the older titles, they're still making enough money with keeping SBMM implemented. I think with MW19 they made more money thinking it was due to the SBMM but in reality the cods before that weren't great. If MW19 didn't have the SBMM it has, a lot more people would have played it resulting in more $$$ being spent I'm thinking one of the people in charge of keeping this system of SBMM/EOMM was sick of his kid getting destroyed every match crying his ass off, or they themselves are a snowflake and hated the abuse they'd cop in the pre-game lobbies after going 5-30. Remember when the devs would talk about stomping Christmas noobs? Since MW19 the only Christmas noobs I came across were sweats playing on new accounts hoping to get into noob lobbies lol. If they got rid of SBMM, brought back persistent lobbies so people can make friends/abuse each other etc. made OP killstreaks, kept quick scoping (..as annoying as it is) so many people would play and stick around. People having fun, talking about it a lot/spreading the word = more people buying it = more revenue There used to be midnight launches in my town but I don't remember the last one we had for cod. No one I've spoken to has showed any interest in it over the last few years, there's no hype here vs how it was back around MW2-BO2 days every person and their dog were talking about it. I don't know if it's my age but I haven't been hyped for a cod in years as well. I still play each one (thanks to gamesharing with a friend) but I don't get excited for it. When I play these days it's like I'm just playing mindlessly, in and out of matches thanks to the lobbies disbanding. I miss having close matches of domination and being able to vs the same people again trying to get them back, or having them talk shit then dropping a nuke having them leave etc. There's no social aspect anymore which is why so many people have just given up.

Good player, always up against his parties of 2-5kd players. Has a crap connection (4g?) that fucks with your hit rego on him and he's on the good side of lag comp all the time. I'll never forget a sweaty ass match vs them on USS Texas, put 3-4 bullets into him close distance before he even shot at me. Then, I get another 3-4 hitmarkers on him and his health bar didn't even deplete. Magically ends up killing me and it shows his laggy character hover away.. not run.. hover!! lol

Shooting peanuts. Dying in 1 frame. Worst running beta for me, barely played it it's so unbearable atm. Will wait until they polish this turd before playing it again

Lol ignore him. He doesn't know what he's on about in most of his posts, they're embarrassing to read..

With crossplay off I can't even find a game of domination during peak times on console. Not sure if this game is dead or due to SBMM the game just disregards matching me with normal people. It keeps searching until it finds 5kd players sponging bullets with their 4g connection. Not fun at all. Also I'm not sure how the servers are overseas atm but the ones in Aus are complete ass. Last few days I've had some give packetloss/connection interrupted/game session no longer available errors.

It's nice when the game works once in a blue moon. Enjoy it while it lasts lol

You can with other routers. I personally haven't noticed a change in ports, for me they're always in the 30000-42000 range on PS4. Different countries could use different ones though, I've seen people say they've seen other UDP ports but I haven't in CW. MW did use higher ports.

I have experienced this a lot, first round of domination im doing great - hit reg is spot on then second round i'm shooting rubber bullets. I've also been on the other side though, nt being able to kill anything first round then second round coming back and dominating, hearing people rage in the killcam, saying they can't kill me etc

Like I mentioned on the previous page when I looked at an old capture there were 3 TCP ports in use during my game, 1 of which was 443. The IP was from "akamai technologies" which is a CDN so in my case it looks like my ps4 was maybe checking for an update for one of my games or maybe even downloading one.. I personally wouldn't prioritise any tcp ports, especially 443 cause it's not gaming traffic.

Looking through wireshark there is some tcp traffic during a game I captured which could explain your rule #5 working. Not sure what this could be as it was happening throughout the game, it wouldn't surprise me if it was sending data back for their SBMM bullshit who knows There were 3 IP's - demonware (port 60258), amazon (port 56935) and akamai technologies (port 443).

It's strange cod is the only game where I get inconsistent connections but the good players I come across year after year always seem to dominate and be untouchable. They always have that connection edge where they can turn on people shooting them from behind and get the kill, people appear to be moving around slowly not reacting to them shooting etc. They obviously have some networking knowledge to be able to tweak their connection to give them this type of result year after year. Yes they are good players but how are they always on the "good side of lag comp?" If I owned a company that marketed routers to gamers (where the majority of people played cod) I would do everything I could to make the users of my device have the best experience possible gaming. I would offer different predefined tweaks within the settings (qos schedulers/disciplines/latency etc) letting users find what works best for them giving them an enjoyable gaming experience. I don't see this as cheating as these options are explorable with different firmware, people just don't have the knowledge to do it themselves.

Working on my iphone, it just didn't detect the R2 maybe because I've changed its IP address. I had to manually add the IP and it worked but said couldn't detect the type of router I'm using/some features may not work I think it's all working though.

I tried it with the R2, it detected/added the rule to high prio but the light never turned on. Will give it another go later after a reboot

Is there a link to instructions? read first few pages but not sure. Does it while playing on console with the R2?

Sorry I should have clicked the form before I posted, all done now

Not sure what happened with this game, it was reported in my radius and i had a low ping to it but in-game i had a 180ms ping and it was full of asian names. The geo-filter had 2 peers in my polygon, the right one kept disappearing. Definitely was't located in Australia

Yes i'm having the issue as well, my PC loses wifi connection what feels like every 15 minutes while i'm working. It's a pain in the ass and I've resorted to running an ethernet cable across my apartment from 1 room to the other to have some stability. I know the devs are working hard on wifi related issues and it's been mentioned the next firmware will contain some wifi improvements. If it doesn't contain a fix for the disconnects it will at least have something extra to help the devs debug the issues

There were leaked patents Activision had regarding matchmaking based on performance. It was an ineresting read, I don't remember the exact details to share here and there's no proof they are in MW but who knows with Activision. I've noticed when I have a game or two in a row with a great connection melting everyone on my way to nukes, the next few games my hit registration is off like I barely have any aim assist and my bullets miss the target. It ALWAYS happens, I'm sure there is something deep down they're doing to cripple you on purpose to give others a chance (catering to noobs). Hopefully this isn't the case with the new Black Ops.

Is the caddy program going to work with the R2 and does it work gaming on PS4 or is it PC only?

You guys must have a good postal service! mine has been in the same state as me since this morning, cleared customs almost 10 hours ago.. DHL ETA says Thursday 13/8, UPS says Wednesday 12/9 lol..

Yes in Australia. That’s the ETA given to me with the UPS tracking number but it arrived in Australia overnight, received tracking from DHL saying it cleared customs in the same state as me so there is a possibility I get it sooner. Wish I had it for the weekend though! I look forward to reading everyone’s experience with it

my package has been delayed in transit - ETA Wednesday oh well!

Can’t purchase it at the moment. There’s no error message when checking out but a red line with an x i give up in case I’ve accidentally bought multiple. Card hasn’t been charged yet though and no email from PayPal so I’m guessing it hasn’t gone through