Mortimer wrote on 09/26/12 at 21:21:38:
It's always puzzled me when you complained of those issues I never have, and I'm playing from New Zealand. I have miniscule lag, can still play just fine and competively. Usually the first sign of a poor connection is you can't do damage or get kills (or that's just poor skill...).
Have you tried a different connection? Maybe your PS3 is on life support? (Afro's just kicked the bucket so he just got a 160GB slim) My 160GB slim runs the game fine, occassional freezes but that's normal for everyone. Mosh has a fat but his works fine aswell, and he doesn't complain of any of the issues you do.
I think it's just my ISP, but it's unfortunately on their end. Maybe how they deal with the PSN through their network (packet throttling?). Speed testing I have a 5MB up / 1MB down and can get 90ms pings to California and London. Some PSN games I have no issues with, and never have issues on PC games where you can pick servers / players and weed out bad pingers.
Some smaller games are butter smooth, but when people that lag in my rooms show up all hell breaks loose. Whats weird is it effects the frame rate updates too, last night going down to 5 FPS for a couple of seconds, almost seemed like it was going to crash then came back. I said it before and got ridiculed for it, but for some reason excessive latency seems to effect the hardware rending killing FPS randomly. Probably has something to do with a error in calculating server side physics and keeping track of all the players not in the genera area? It's on a 3000 model new Slim, so it shouldn't be console. Removing all saved data and doing a fresh install didn't help.
I've notice when SirCrush is in my room, we're lagging pretty bad to each other, but from talking to him it seems we should not be (his location and service). I wish we had more options over here in the US for broadband, I'd dump Comcast in a second.
I'm hoping to play a bit and get on video with you guys, I'd love to see how I look from the other perspective.