I played Reach firefight with teammates in Australia, Belgium, and the UK once. It was 1 frame per minute slow.

Given how Reach's Co-op netcode worked, You're probably thinking of ODST or Halo 3, but I get the gist of your post.

Reach's co-op net code (and Halo 4's code, for that matter) were largely the same "synchronous" net code model as Halo 3 & ODST, suffering the same problems :(

Eh?

Here's what I remember:

Halo 3 + ODST: Host waits for everyone's connection to respond before advancing a frame. Result: Game is choppy, plays in "slow motion".

Reach: Client sends their controller input to the host's machine, which moves the characters, then sends the resultant game-world back to the clients, in real-time.
Result: Clients have to "anticipate" their moves, because it might be as much as a second before you see the result of your input on the screen. Game is relatively smooth otherwise.

And this happened 3 times over the course of 9 games. Not *that* frequent but when you're trying for 10 kills without dying, it's still way too frequent.

I don't mind a guy lagging out from behind cover if TTK is so long that I have a chance to shoot him once his avatar catches up to his bullets.

On the flip side, I don't mind lag causing me to lose a OHK shot if I have an infinite amount of OHK ammo.

But with both limited OHK ammo AND very short TTK, the lag in Destiny is the most frustrating FPS MP experience I've had since at least the original Xbox.

Some others have suggested Destiny's matchmaking puts more weight on skill matches than low latency, which might be true. It also might account for some of the differences vs. other games, IF their matchmaking priorities are different.

I played Reach firefight with teammates in Australia, Belgium, and the UK once. It was 1 frame per minute slow.

Given how Reach's Co-op netcode worked, You're probably thinking of ODST or Halo 3, but I get the gist of your post.

Reach's co-op net code (and Halo 4's code, for that matter) were largely the same "synchronous" net code model as Halo 3 & ODST, suffering the same problems :(

I played Reach firefight with teammates in Australia, Belgium, and the UK once. It was 1 frame per minute slow.

Given how Reach's Co-op netcode worked, You're probably thinking of ODST or Halo 3, but I get the gist of your post.

Nope. It was Reach on Courtyard. Totally unplayable. It was like someone casually flipping pages in a picture book.

I played Reach firefight with teammates in Australia, Belgium, and the UK once. It was 1 frame per minute slow.

Given how Reach's Co-op netcode worked, You're probably thinking of ODST or Halo 3, but I get the gist of your post.

Yeah, but your internet is far far away and built out of soup cans or something, right?

Damn, that'd be a hell of an improvement.

I may or may not have danced on his corpse.

'>.>
<.<'

Not that meleeing that shotgun-toting Titan to death inside his own bubble wasn't hilarious, but I felt bad for him.

Did you really feel bad for him? :)

Rank 1 = can buy class gear
Rank 2 = can buy guns
Rank 3 = can buy armour

Hitting rank 1 = package with glimmer + emblem
Hitting rank 2 = emblem + shader
Hitting rank 3 = shader + glimmer

IB ranking would of been so much better like this.