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I have seen "lag" in BF3, it does not affect someone seeing me first, or 60 rounds into a guy and he turns around surprised he is being shot and kills me, it slows down the play, 3 shots is a kill, simply slower responses.
LAG exists in all games, in all networks, the difference in MW3 is what you do NEVER happens as you do it, not slower, not faster, not at all. This is the challenge for most, we have all played laggy games, skipping on the screen, the result "i shot him" is still the result, or you missed him because you could not turn quick enough.
If MW3 was simply just "lag" here and there, i could deal with that, moving slower or faster yet my results are "still" my results as i carried them out - cool, this is not the deal however, lag on MW3, affects lag comp, which affects the data sent/recieved or some other reason, maybe the engine is broken who knows.
One key point which causes this illusion in the game is client side/server side data does not equal, the data ( packets you send/recieve ) are not equal, they either drop on server side or it drops on the client side. Which causes the effect we see and experience in the game, why? who knows, packets drop at an excessive rate depending on the lobby, some are more, some less.
I am certain if the only problem was the actions in the game simply took longer/slower, we would not see the conversations we see taking place. A simple network monitoring tool set to monitor the ip of your xbox on all ports will show this in full color. Interesting indeed
