Noob question.

What's the difference between dedicated servers and what we have for this game?
Is DS always better? Is lag close to nothing? Is the reason for not having it only money?

I'm often host and I always have 4 bars when that happens but as soon as I'm not I always get lower. Sometimes only 1 pin. I connect to my ps3 by cable so it shouldn't differ in conn, in my mind anyway.

Noob question.

What's the difference between dedicated servers and what we have for this game?
Is DS always better? Is lag close to nothing? Is the reason for not having it only money?

I'm often host and I always have 4 bars when that happens but as soon as I'm not I always get lower. Sometimes only 1 pin. I connect to my ps3 by cable so it shouldn't differ in conn, in my mind anyway.

basically crysis 2 uses p2p servers, where there is a host player and his connection (supposedly the best connection) is used to host the connections for everyone else in a game.

Dedicated servers are independent servers run by the publisher that hosts the games and in theory, if their netcode is set up right, and they have enough servers around the world, then no lag etc.

oh and cost is usually main reason they dont use them, as they have to continually maintain them .

Oh I see. Thanx. But still how can my conn go from 4 bars on game to 1 bar next game if I'm connected by cable?Or it has nothing to do with my conn insted it's about the hosts conn?

Oh I see. Thanx. But still how can my conn go from 4 bars on game to 1 bar next game if I'm connected by cable?Or it has nothing to do with my conn insted it's about the hosts conn?

nothing to do with our line.. its the host that is chosen, if they live far away or have a bad connection chosen anyway, there will be lag and all sorts of problems, if we had DS then this forum would pretty much have no complaints about the connection at all, thats how good it is, once there are dedicated servers up, its up to our connection back at home and our ping to keep us in game.

hope this helps

not really sure, i guess ur connection is somehow used to maintain the host as a server, as his connection alone wouldnt be suffcient, but mostly the issue seems to be basically bad net coding which means that its not putting people in a room which will suitably maintain a decent connection without lag. So when u go into a room where theres bad connections and an unsuitable host, it ends up with ur connection being drained somehow. if the netcoding is good like in mw2, it arranges games with best possible connections and minimises these issues.

finally bad netcoding doesnt seem to recognise what level of connection u actually have sometimes, and hence we end up with ppl with huge download speeds (ive heard ppl with 100mb download speeds complaining)ending up with red bars

not highly technical explanation, but my understanding of the basics

thx guys. I just wanted to try to understand what is going on. then it's best if I play with swedes only.... I surelly hope it pretty damn expensive to have DS if they put us through this...

Probably not that expensive I'm afraid, As bc2 had dedicated servers and that sold nowhere near as much as this game,they just cheap bar stewards ( can't swear , so think of word that sounds like these two when said quickly together ) lol