September 2022 - last edited September 2022
If players have to change what data server they're connected to, to ones further away, just to have better games, either by matchmaking, or just having less smurphs and cheaters, then there's no point in playing the game.
Playing on any server near me be like the following:
- Average Ping (By Server): 30-70
- What the Ping feels like: 30-300 (it randomly skyrockets and just lags out like someone is DDOSing)
- Number of cheaters: Way too many (Every single game has someone aimbotting, sometimes a full team using it, but mainly wall hackers playing as Bloodhound or Seer, even though everyone knows they're not using the legend ability, because Seer for example cannot track heart beats 50+ meters away).
- Number of smurphs: Literally the whole lobby for some reason, with a lot of them being diamond to pred players. Barely anyone in my matches are above level 100.
Playing on the Tokyo servers:
- Average Ping (By Server): 150-275
- What the Ping feels like: 60-175 (and somehow playable than a more stable server that's "closer" to me)
- Number of cheaters: Barely any. I was able to actually run 7 games before I ran into a Chinese or Japanese player running aimbot, but it was more rare than the USA servers near me.
- Number of smurphs: Also barely any. Teammates are actually higher levels, enemy teams are more balanced. Still get pred or high ranked players in a low ranked lobby, but its not super obvious that the matchmaking is broken.
Granted the number of cheaters and smurphs depends on the time of day of players on the Tyoko servers, but still. If we have to connect to a futher away server just to enjoy the game, there's basically no point in playing.
September 2022 - last edited September 2022
Yeah it seems like ping isnt the factor that determines how laggy the match server feels for you. Seems to me that its about under-dimensioned server capacity. Right after the patch when the servers was super crowded, the game was literally unplayable for me even if I usually had 50 or less ping. So I started to play on Australian or Brazilian servers on 200+ ping but the game ran 10x more smoothly than on the crowded EU servers..
At least I see no cheaters on EU, well at least no good/obvious cheaters but I can ofc not know how many use wallhacks/soft recoil macros but suck anyways =)
September 2022
September 2022 - last edited September 2022
Can we please get better servers? Its pathetic being connected to a server that says it's 23ms, but the performance display tab says it's 50-70ms, and the game is playing like the data server is on the moon. When I play on further away servers, like Tokyo, yeah it still lags, but it feels like the data server is 3 states away, not 5 galaxies away.
The lag is so unbearable, that while I was playing gun run, every single server connection error popped up and existed for most of the game, affecting everyone in the match.
Edited: Yup... we need better servers. 35ms on data centers near me, lags as if its 100+ ping. Everytime I see someone, all players freeze and I just die automatically. This ISN'T fun and its NOT my connection either. I've checked 5 times.