Too all people that host modded open games, i'd like to say FU

I mostly agree with the TS, but I have to notice that these modifications should have a direct impact on the gameplay. For instance, if you change your skill name without making any other changes, it's perfectly fine with me, but if you make that skill do 5x damage, it's not. Making the game harder is definitely better than making it easier, but a warning would be more than desirable, because I want those extra shields if I'm about to drop into a 120 FPS game.

That said, I have a question.
Is it possible to mod your game if you're playing off-host?
For example, can a player have his Katana shotgun do as much damage as Claymoar if he's playing off-host? My guess would be that it's not possible, because the game is using the host's files. But please tell me if I'm wrong.

Once me and Doc pugged on his host and in the game droped a pug (MasterYoda or something like that) who could kill every armor unit only with one shot.He used saber or another AR in the first game and PPR in the second.They sucked vs shield tho.So,you can affect the off-host games somehow.Probably not like on host,but still you can.As i mentioned in another thread,i spent the whole 9 wave overloading him.

Skating Ravagers should slide back down the hill every time they fire

Arkhne Yeah fair enough, these days my wrist and lower back MUCH prefer I play console games on the couch.

Another factor for me is that I found X360 ME3MP a bit of a cluster f**k more times than not, even 2 years after ME3 was released Gold matches were infested with players who couldn't pull their weight, and for a long time I didn't have the skill and later on lacked the willpower to carry poor players on Gold. Also it was common practice for a host or team mates to go down or get sync killed and just rage quit the match entirely. It was probably an X360 thing but if people left after ~wave5-6 it didn't bother finding replacements, also the latency related issues were out of this world.

Really thinking and looking back if ME3MP wasn't as amazing as it is, I 100% would have quit within a week considering the issues that plagued PUG'ing.

It's unfair to compare to the PC scene today where there is nothing but the trydiehards left! The standard of PUG players still going today is lightyears from my average matches back in 2012-2014.

It's all anecdotal at the end of the day, play whatever works best for you.

I feel blessed to have finally found L0ouny lobby, he wasn't the host but I still watched his Hurricane melt a Banshee in about 1.5 seconds on plat and he was tanking heaps of hits.

I got to use changeteam for the first time and harrass them for a bit, there was other people in that lobby going ham with console commands to reset after getting sync killed etc.

Thanks a lot!
Your posts actually led me to thinking that while Coalesced.bin changes can be made on-host only, other files' changes (like .pcc ones, and the famous Crusader bug fix is exactly that, an altered .pcc file) will affect the game both on- and off-host.
And I also remembered people wielding Argus ARs that go brrrrrrrrrrt - you can stumble upon them while both hosting and pugging.