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Old 09-11-2009, 02:17 PM
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Originally Posted by mar01006765 View Post
It's not as simple as that, ping latency is the biggest cause of lag. Also he could just have a really noisy line. This wouldn't matter for http where the router will re send lost packets. In a multiplayer game, once the packet is gone it's gone.
This is the most likely cause of my problem. I'm in a block of flats and the line is crap in a few of the flats - unluckily one of them is mine!

This isn't a complaint at the Dev's as, like I said, I love the game, but games these days seem to be increasingly dependant on online play to unlock offline content. I too wish they would indicate it on the box.
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