Using Lag Switches is cheating, especially in Ranked Matches.
 

Had an interesting experience (360) today..... had a ranked arcade team battle against thsi French player.

Now everytime I was in a position for a kill shot his fighter would jump a big distance out of the way and only when I was in a position for a killshot or to evade a trap maneuver..... Yep, you guessed it, he wasn't just randomly lagging, he was using a Lag Switch to cheat.

Despite this I managed to score a 3 to 0 victory over him, so he managed to loose despite cheating. I promply stuck him on my "Avoid" list, as I do with anyone that is using a lag switch.

Keep a look out for players who seem to only lag when it seems to be to their advantage.

A randomly lagging player will lag when it gives them no advantage or a disadvantage to them.

Cheating and winning is a sign of dishonesty.

Cheating and loosing is a sign of extreme suckiness.

Wow, this is new to me, what a serious bunch I fools, can't beleive people would rather win this way, googled it and saw how prevalant it is across gaming!
...learn something new everyday!

Unfortunately lag switches are usually found in FPS games, though the newer X-Box 360 will crash the game if one is used for more than a second..... however, the first series X-Box 360 will allow quite a few seconds of lagging to be deliberately caused without crashing.

Some game servers won't allow it to work but others will.... all COD games are notorious for cheats with lag switches.

Never seen one on the BC server as it detects and boots them as found.

BSM and BSP occasionally had them but the server iis again very fussy and will crash the whole game because one cheat was using a lag switch or "Aim Bot".

The uses of a wireless network with a player's X-Box also prevents the use of a lag switch as it requires a switch to be inserted on the cut orange wire of the X-Box to modem cable and within easy reach of the offending player's hand whilst he plays.

Basically it just spoils the games for other players.

What's BC? Battlefield Bad Company?

as someone who is at the mercy of crappy Australian internet I can't believe someone would actively want lag...:confused:
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Properly directed, lag can be an incredibly powerful force. Incredibly cheap and unfair that is.

Happened to me few days back.
Lined up the shot and the guy started jumping a hundred feet through the air. Might have been coincidence I suppose. Maybe more prevailent in arcade mode? Most Sim players seem an honest bunch.

wow never knew such a thing existed, no wonder in a couple of games the plane i was shooting was there one minute and 200ft up the next

il-2 lags randomly in arcade because people overload their servers with more players than they can handle, cause there's no bandwidth-test to set the player max.

I think another factor to arcade mode lag may be that people shoot from much farther away, and fly around in crazed furball at about Mach 0.8, spraying unlimited numbers of rounds in all directions, which is a lot of high-speed stuff for a server to track. When a random lag glitch occurs, it's usually corrected fairly quickly, but when everything's going so fast, when the server makes the correction the plane has moved 200 meters.

simulator has a tendency to freeze up for a half second at times, but not often, and not long enough to lose a target, usually.

There are some lag switchers in arcade yes, met a couple of them.
They are perfectly fine flying behind u etc but as soon as u get on their tail they get insanely laggy and teleport away.
Then resuming to normal when they are out of your sights.