How To Tell Who Is Hosting in MW2

I changed my config and it's nice to know more precisely what your ping is. Still not as well as in the other games, but an improvement nonetheless.

 

and the point of this is what?

 

You don't necessarily have to use it to tell who's hosting. It just gives you a more precise idea of what your ping is.

 

I still don't get the point. You cant change anything knowing this

 

exactly, if there was a way to see the ping while your in the game lobby that would be somewhat useful.

 

your title is misleading lol.

your title mentions how you can find out who the host is, yet you only provide information on how to make your ping/latency seem more accurate.

 

The person with the highest bars has the lowest latency and is the host.

 

Sorry not sure you don't get this? Obviously the game doesnt allow you to see the ping in the lobby, but you can see it in-game, and most likely the higest ping will be the host. The title is not misleading what-so-ever. This makes it more accurate and then you can tell for sure.

 

I get the concept. It would just be better if the game had a vote new host option so we could vote for the lowest ping player to host rather than just sit there and say "Oh look there's the player who's a bad host. Too bad we can't do anything but leave or suffer"

 

One question though, do the PS3 and Xbox 360 have the same game server setup? Seems odd that a console would be able to serve that many players.

 

>.> as far as I know its the same, I think you have it backwards, its odd that pc's are stuck with so few players lol.

 

They've been using that matchmaking system for years

 

Yup, the pc's is the exact same as well.

 

just correcting a mistake highest bars = lowest ping...

 

I just tried this, it works pretty well. On the default 4-bar system, sometimes half the players would have all 4 bars, so telling who was host was pretty difficult. With the 10 bars at 20ms each, you can tell pretty much 100% of the time, since anyone with all 10 bars has a ping under 20ms, which pretty much only ever happens to the host.

 

Cool, now I can rage at the host when a game starts to lag! Thanks!