It has been quite some time since I had experienced lag so bad that it made me want to stop playing my video game, but it has happened again. Seems that my old nemesis LAG hit me yesterday and he was quite a fierce adversary. He first popped up after I downloaded the NXE on my Xbox 360 and tried to play some COD 5, the stutter and constant death was horrible. The LAG would make me teleport all over the screen and made shooting anyone or even shanking them with the knife difficult.
I had almost forgotten how terrible LAG can be, it made trying to play online like trying to run a race with your ankles tied together. I spent about 20 minutes during a match in Halo 3 in a re-spawn screen staring at the floor as the rest of the players had a good time and shot my non-moving body. The score would stay stuck at 0 - 0 and I would just be lying on the ground listening to others complain about getting shot in the face and in COD 5 I would continually get a “Connection Interrupted” message. The lag would consistently put me in the last spot and lost me a rank in Team Slayer and did not help my cause to try and get more perks.
Time to try and figure out what is going on, I can only hope that this experience has nothing to do with the new NXE and the avatars, I blame avatars for my lag. Do you have any good lag stories to share?
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No such thing as a good lag story, only terrible ones.
Not true there my friend Tyler. I sure have a good lag story. I play Dota. And back then in Dota I would own hardcore and me getting so much kills it would cause lag xD.
Some bad lag stories were when I was trying to escape death and someone suddenly lagged which pauses the game, kinda, for everyone and I lost control of my hero and died.
Those of you who play Dota would understand, those of you who don’t, just know that they were both a good and a bad lag story
@EHT - I retract my statement! You make a very good point. If you benefit from lag, it’s a good lag story.
I’m usually on the losing end of lag when it happens. Try playing fighting games online, it’s almost a guarantee to show up.