Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare does use dedicated servers — but it also doesn't

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s launch has gone rather smoothly, but some fans are voicing concerns that the online shooter doesn’t use the best server technology.

Activision has confirmed, however, that Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare does use dedicated servers. But it also doesn’t. Following its Nov. 3 launch, some gamers took to the Web to complain that they were getting into matches with very high ping numbers. Ping is the amount of time — usually in milliseconds — that it takes for an Internet signal to reach its destination and return to the source. A high ping means that actions you make in Call of Duty will take longer to register with the host, and that can impact gameplay.