Well me and a few friends have had a HUGE problem in both L4D1 and 2 online of all types. Basically in every match we've been in, everyone has had red connection and there has been heavy lag throughtout for everyone. But the thing is that this only seem to occur when we used an dedicated server. The connection was fine when I used a local one.

Now I believe it's their servers as I then tested with doing a private campaign on my own where there wa also heavy lag. My friends (everal of them) did the same on seperate games and had the same problem. Now I was wondering if anyone else (mainly 360) had been having the same problems and if so, is this a problems on VALVe's part?

It's been a problem since Crash Course.

Well I've only noticed it now for about a week though. When CC came out, it was a problem at first due to the bug but after it and the other campaigns were fine.

Yeah and after about 1 month of trying to get slippery pole yesterday I played with someone and they said most servers are corrupt and they are trying to fix it. It will screw up people connection he says and the servers corrupt won't allow you to get achievements. I have got slippery pole so many times it just pisses me off.

lAg has been a issue but only recently has it got all red bars. Two daysago me and three friends tried and after one game stopped. It was THAT bad. Not until then has it ever been THAT bad. But it has been bad since CC. Just not to the extreme it was.

its not just the 360 servers. no matter how much me and my mates love the game half the time we dont play because it just becomes farcical A) getting people to join a lobby and stay B)Stay the entirety of the match and not rage quit C)Actually find a damn server instead of sitting in the lobby whilst it selects one for over a minute and D)get lag in game despite having easily capable pc's, pings of around 40 and never having the problem before. damn they got the system so right with counter strike as well

When I played online, Just about everyone had red bars, Including myself BUT I didnt lagg nor Disconnect?

quote Llamacheese

When I played online, Just about everyone had red bars, Including myself BUT I didnt lagg nor Disconnect?

no idea why u didnt lag but I didnt dc either in a couple matches. Lags always been an issue but not as bad as now. My friend said he read it was in preparation of l4d2 servers or something. lol

Yeah I had a feeling it was to do with the L4D2 servers. But you can overcome this in L4D2 as you can host a local server which hasn't failed me yet! Give it a try ometime. And also if your hosting, then you don't need to worry about lag as you the host!

quote Llamacheese

When I played online, Just about everyone had red bars, Including myself BUT I didnt lagg nor Disconnect?

Yeah, having red doesn't mean you'll lag out. But it does mean that jumping people as hunters is harder. Because it takes longer for info to reach you then everyone else. (Only really applies if your connection is much worse then everyone else. Like all green but you red thing.)

But the lag I saw in L4D1 was just abysmal. I can say it's the worst lag I've ever seen in a game. And I've had some pretty awful lag on Gears 2 before. That's where hoting a local erver helps and also because many of those I will play L4D2 with live near me so it helps everyone! But lately the servers seem to be getting better. Was doing versus yeterday and though there was still some bad connections occasionally, overall it was fine. Nice to have a lag free versus game!