What are your thoughts about lag?

[Stig]

I hardly have any problems myself. But then when I play MP all graphics and sounds are to the lowest, and I'm on the University network, so I have a 100mb connection.

Other people have it tho, but I can live with it, RTW was worse

[Chaos Cornelius lucius]

I have found game lag to highly variable, with no obvious reason as to the cause. I have had 4v4 games with only slight lag, and 2v2 with some of the same players that have been stop motion battles.
I have a good system so I know that is not the problem. I have just moved house tho and my new connection is borderline crap now, too far from exchange for decent adsl/dsl apparently.
(also discovered yesterday that if you turn the hoover on the internet connection drops out )

[Fenix7]

Let's hope that with 2nd patch lag issues will be removed - or at least reduced.

[CBR]

What unit sizes are people using?


CBR

[Yun Dog]

I have found game lag to highly variable, with no obvious reason as to the cause. I have had 4v4 games with only slight lag, and 2v2 with some of the same players that have been stop motion battles.
I have a good system so I know that is not the problem. I have just moved house tho and my new connection is borderline crap now, too far from exchange for decent adsl/dsl apparently.
(also discovered yesterday that if you turn the hoover on the internet connection drops out )

the solution is clear.... dont hoover.... ever... again

and now you can use your M2TW connection as the perfect excuse

[ElmarkOFear]

To answer your question CBR: Most players I know, who want to play 3v3 or 4v4 games have turned down their graphics settings to the lowest and have turned down unit size to the smallest. I am still using the PCs I used for MTW/VI and I can play and host 4v4s with a bit of lag (but the lag is not quite as bad as STW & MTW1's early days). Drops and lockups are the biggest problem for me and a few others I play with online. Once a game launches, things run fairly well.

I think those who are lagging, are trying to play with larger unit sizes and higher graphic settings. I know the game should play well at those levels, but it doesn't, and I think some are refusing to turn down the settings to help offset the lag.

[Chaos Cornelius lucius]

the solution is clear.... dont hoover.... ever... again

and now you can use your M2TW connection as the perfect excuse

Now that sounds good to me .
Now hoovering for at least the 2 weeks it is going to take me to download th e new patch anyway

[Colossus]

GS is a joke, one thats not even funny, its just plain rubbish, I dont care if im being "offensive" but ask anyone in the multiplayer community, its poor.

[pike master]

i cant believe how smooth the lobby and games are when the lobby is low in numbers. its seems like the server is not up to handling a large number of players.