Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 discussion thread

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nightsurge said:

dbot said:

nightsurge said:

I know.  I tend to play online during non-peak hours.  Occasionally, I will end up in games with players in other countries.  I usually do extremely well because I end up as the host.  You should get your DSL back for your online connection.  If you really care, you can influence selection by initiating a lot of downloads from a PC during the host selection phase.  

Edit: This is one of the many benefits of dedicated servers.  Laggers and poor quality hosts don't gain an advantage.

You mean lag switching?  And yes, I agree with the DS argument.  The only thing that really irks me, though, is that Host Advantage seems to be getting worse with the newer games released.  I rarely saw any advantage back in Halo 2 and Rainbow Six Black Arrow.... and even Halo 3 had barely any advantage at all unless it was a really laggy host.  Then Gears of War 2 had horrible host advantage and now so does CoD4/6...

Do you know how I could do the whole downloading thing or whatever to get host more often?  Is there some program I can run that will just flood my line temporarily and can be shut off as soon as I'm host?  Everytime I have host, the host advantage seems slim to none and EVERYONE has full green connection with me.

Limewire or another P2P program.