Why does this game suddenly suck?

[ericlee2k]

I went to play some Ground War on MW3 and got put in a 2 bar game. I went 1-9 before rage quitting and finding another game.

This next game was even more laggy. Most people were at 1 bars, so the game attempted to host migrate. Then it got stuck host migrating and I was at the host migration screen for about 2 minutes before it finally went back to the menu.

So I tried another playlist; maybe I'll try TDM, since a lot of people play that. When the map was loading, it went "Awaiting connection...16 Awaiting connection...17" etc. After 2 minutes again it brought me back to the menu.

I tried again, and finally got into a decent game. I had a 21 kill streak going. Suddenly, the game froze for a bit. Then I was kicked back to the menu, with the message "Lost connection to host." Now all my XP and records were lost.

I gave up and decided to play a match of Bad Company 2. After that, I returned to MW3.

My NAT type was suddenly strict. It told me to go to www.infinityward.com/nat. I went there, but the website did not load.

What the ♥♥♥♥ is going on??? :mad: And how do I get my NAT back to open?

[tvdw]

Well then, let me try to be a nice guy and answer most of your questions :)

1) This is a popular weekend for cheaters, since there's double XP. No idea why that attracts them, since they don't have a reason to care about XP, but whatever.

2) My guess is that while the "decent game" looked decent, the host was in fact a hacker who decided it wouldn't be nice for you to get a MOAB. Or he simply thought that you're a cheater. Either way, you were most likely kicked.

3) For every little detail about how NAT works, etc, please read http://xifon.eu/mw3sa/mw3.html. To summarize it: NAT isn't really relevant for gameplay experience, unless you want to be host.

[kraze1994]

Suddenly?

This has been building up since COD4 was released.

[ericlee2k]

3) For every little detail about how NAT works, etc, please read http://xifon.eu/mw3sa/mw3.html. To summarize it: NAT isn't really relevant for gameplay experience, unless you want to be host.

Thanks for the link! I'll try this asap.

Suddenly?

This has been building up since COD4 was released.

I never had connection issues with Call of Duty until today! Arghh