"sponging"

[iAdam]

The only time I've heard sponging is when you just don't die when shot, probably that due to lag or something.

[Accipiter]

sponging happens a lot on laggy hardcore modes and it piss me off to no end

it does piss me off to when ever it puts me into a laggy free for all, or into a game where the match just ends but i wasn't lagging when i shot him and he wasn't jumping so it'll be his problem.

[ItsDave]

Mate, sorry, I shot this guy 3 times with an Intervention and he don't die, sponging *******. for example.

[Accipiter]

snipers are **** anyway, i gave up on them straight away, unless you get a acog scope for them then your kicking ass.

[Black_Apalachi]

snipers are **** anyway, i gave up on them straight away, unless you get a acog scope for them then your kicking ass.

Acogs are ********!!! I much prefer just a normal sniper scope.

[samsaBEAR]

acog on the m21 isn't bad, but the idea of a sniper is to get long range kills, so the normal scope is just fine imo

[PaulMacC]

Sponging is an internet slang term used within the Call of Duty community to describe someone who doesn't take damage due to either shooting at the host at the time who was using a lag switch (to lag the sever and delay or stop anything but his movements) or having a poor host with random lag spikes that induces the "sponges". Host is everything on Call of Duty. A host's bullets will always register, you've probably had an experience before when you've fired half a clip into someone and they havent died, that is due to poor host connection and the other player has sponged due to this. If your host you'll never find another playing sponging bullets as your host and you'll uploading all information to the server. Most of the time a 4 bar connection will usually be around 0 - 100 ping which sponging can occur every 1 in 10 bullets or even less. Again, tl;dr - host is a huge advantage and Infinity Ward need to put in dedicated console servers to counteract this. A good player with host and a smart mindset is unstoppable. Sucks for us because our internet packages have like 3mbps upload at the maximum yet people in the Netherlands can go up to 100mbps upload-wise as all over there they are fully fibre optic. Host usually depends on upload speed.

[samsaBEAR]

It's no where near as much of an advantage as it was on gears of war

[Accipiter]

at snipers being long range, i personally think theres no point in them, theres like, 1 map that lets you use it for long range and thats wasteland

and i dunno if i was host, i might have been. i don't even know how to tell lmao.

[PaulMacC]

It's no where near as much of an advantage as it was on gears of war

Still, it is a big advantage.