Is that really how CBMM works? (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Friday, March 04, 2016, 01:52 (3459 days ago) @ Claude Errera

Yeah, I'd figure it has more to do with my playtime than anything else (9:30 pm - 1 am, PST). Also I'm on PSN, which I firmly believe to be inferior to XBL.

Hmm. I play at the same time (sometimes even later), but on XBL.

The ISP issue seems unlikely since I've moved during this time and had a total of 3 different ISPs.

Last night my fireteam was me, on AT&T, my buddy from LA (I'm also in LA) on Comcast, and three friends from NorCal (ISPs unknown). Our connections to each other are always stellar, but it seems to only take one laggy guy to tank an entire game (thanks, token ring-esque netcode).

I can say that we chatted with the guys from Australia last night briefly after our elimination game and they said we were the best connection they had all night (which is also weird, because the connection was not good).

You definitely have the most eclectic connections of anyone I know about. :)

Well, I don't usually complain about the games I play with good connections :) Also, I play a LOT of PvP. It's my primary activity by a wide margin. I ran Court of Oryx last night for the first time in months, I do patrol maybe twice a week for long enough to complete the "patrol X area" bounty of that day, and I've run the raid once in the last four months, I think, and that was literally just the Warpriest Challenge. I've never had issues with PvE lag that I can recall. All works stellar. The trick is that I PvP all the dang time and when you play 10-15 rounds in a night, you're liable to get a few bad eggs. Last night was really bad, with 5 of our 8 (I think it was 8) matches being horrid lag-fests (elimination gametype was brutal), but it's not usually so awful.

I really need to get around to uploading my "laggiest game ever" video so you guys can see the glory that is rockets sticking out of the ground like purple spikes.