what are your "laggy room" tactics?

[Rod Dickmaster]

Lag seems to be a bigger issue now than it was before the patch, and since it looks like it will be a fact of life now, like it was in S2, I was wondering how players are planning to deal with it.

For me, I will return to a tactic that I used in S2 when in a really laggy room. I equip a machine gun with a 100 round clip, and a 2x ammo, lightest pistol with no silencer, and nothing else. Then, I just go around hosing bullets everywhere.

It's not very effective, but it makes lots of noise and it's fun.

[Cylon]

And it adds to the lag you should add. Not sure what rooms you are playing, but I have yet to experience any kind of lag like in socom 2. There is no lag in socom 3, so I really wont have to deal with it until I come accross it if I do. I really think it depends on the players connection really, not the room itself (unless its like boneyard, explosives small or something).

[Rod Dickmaster]

You make a good point there, and I suppose I should have also pointed out that S3 seems to be able to "catch up" to the lag after a while (which S2 did not). My point was that we do see laggy rooms, and I wondered what people are doing to make the best of it when they encounter one.

[Cylon]

Originally Posted by Rod Dickmaster

You make a good point there, and I suppose I should have also pointed out that S3 seems to be able to "catch up" to the lag after a while (which S2 did not). My point was that we do see laggy rooms, and I wondered what people are doing to make the best of it when they encounter one.

Yea, I see what your talking about. I think the only thing that people can do is either leave the room (which I might consider if it was really bad), or just do what you said. Grab the thing that carries the most ammo and hold the trigger down.

[who_shot_ya]

well any laggy room I definately do not use the M16.

[Sgt-Miller]

My laggy room tactic is as follows:

I leave the room. :)

[Irish Kin]

Originally Posted by Sgt-Miller

My laggy room tactic is as follows:

I leave the room. :)

Yup.

Also, try looking for rooms with between 14 and 22 people. Once it gets up into the high 20s and the 30s, the lag starts getting really bad.

[TixBomber]

Have you been playing mostly respawn? All the respawn rooms seem to be laggy, whereas I havent run into it a single time in a ranked one (even with multiple friendlies and enemies firing auto in the area).

[Desperad00]

The worst rooms to lag are fault and cidadel small, its horrible. Up close with all them people, its pure chaos..not my style of fighting, i'm more of a scoper plan your shot kinda person...so when all them nades, frags, lagging, and f90s start happening I press leave game. :D

[Rod Dickmaster]

I read in another thread yesterday (I forget which one, but it may have been about the 552 specifically) that someone thought the 552 performed well in laggy rooms. I tried it last night, and it really does seem to have some good characteristics in bad rooms.

Anyone else notice this?