You must be among the few lucky ones who are host every other game. I have a 20mb down/20mb upload connection and my friend has a 50mb down/20mb upload connection and we both have sub-100ms ping to everywhere in the US. We are both legitimately trueskill 5 and have been playing since release. Since hitting the 4 and 5 trueskill ranks, all we get are boosters and foreign hosts, either in Mexico or Canada. Apparently our connections aren't sufficient for host, no matter which one of us open...
Was the complete opposite for me. Weapons were outrageously accurate. In the first battle I was able to hit the enemies on the mountain tops with the pistol with ease. Furthermore I was able to basically snipe with the musket. Extremely disappointing game overall. Great concept, though.
Sadly it seems to struggle at even running at 60 on a Core 2 Duo(E8400) @ 3.6GHz, ATI HD4890 1GB @ 1GHz, 6GB RAM, etc on the higher settings. I know my hardware isn't bleeding edge, but it's pretty decent and figured this game would run decently.
Created a second, new account and both my old and this new have the icon, so I doubt it means accounts with the green light are in the beta like many have been suggesting. Beta starting soon though regardless would be awesome.
Got an A.
SCORE: 7967
AVERAGE: 101.10FPS
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.6GHz
Memory: 6144MB
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 4890
Display Setting: 1920x1200 60Hz 8xAA
I'm going to hedge a guess and say it will be related to downloadable content for Gears 2.
Pretty sure that we can all agree this is a piss-poor port and can quit hearing about it daily. Sad, yes, but hopefully the new Sonic will redeem the series.