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Re: Servers in south Africa

It’s unbelievable honestly!!! EA just messed up the Alex Sandro SBC!! Laughable honestly…. That was taking down quicker than I take a *. Yet here us South Africans sit 3 weeks later with our servers still down. What a joke company. How do you people who work at EA sleep at night ??? 

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  • Like how hard is it to release an SBC with the correct name 🤯 these guys are a bunch of poepols 

  • I promise you EA employees probably sleep well with pillows that cost the price of your bed lol they will take their own time to fix it 

  • ConnorMcIn21's avatar
    ConnorMcIn21
    2 years ago

    For those playing on pc I’d just recommend downloading exitlag, I tried it today, it’s not the usual 30ms or 15ms we are used to but it’s like 84/90ms which was playable for me and I was able to find rival matches aswell. I don’t believe that EA Will fix this anytime soon and if they do I’d be extremely surprised. So this is the best we’ve got for now. 

  • Sest0_Elemento's avatar
    Sest0_Elemento
    Seasoned Traveler
    2 years ago

    @ConnorMcIn21 i tried exitlag as well...the first day i got around 95ms ping...then today depends on what they did with the routing...we were getting routed to spain, which made the ping worse and exitlag didnt help it....but if you get to middle-east servers, you can get around 90-100ms, which gives you a bit of a chance compared to 150ms-200ms ping defending...only issue i have been having with the game is after a game or two the menu keys to accept or cancel at times stops working and doesnt respond anymore - a bug i logged a good few months back that has been ignored completely by support....have to restart the game and try again after that.

  • ConnorMcIn21's avatar
    ConnorMcIn21
    2 years ago

    @Sest0_Elemento nah it also happens to me alot, I cant open the game when exit lag is on sometimes but i found a way to sort of trick it by opening the game and tabbing into exitlag and quickly turning it on. like today i still get around 90 ping so it works to an extent. The bugs we cant do anything about it is what it is 

  • Sest0_Elemento's avatar
    Sest0_Elemento
    Seasoned Traveler
    2 years ago

    @ConnorMcIn21 I do the same...game wont start with exit lag running.  So what i do is once the game loads up to the profile select screen, i start it up.

    I noticed that it only assigns you a datacenter when you are looking for a game in UT.  When you connect to UT, it doesnt assign a server.  Its probably my location that i am getting 95ms at the best...or maybe my ISP routing but its better than playing on 150-200ms where your players feel like they always on Ice.  I actually got some guy to rage quit coz he went 2-0 down early on lol...and i could actually defend a bit...dont need to guess too much now.  

    Yeah, the bugs are bugs...but this issue where the keys dont respond on the menu, is something they should have been addressing as there are other people experiencing this as well...

  • someothergirl's avatar
    someothergirl
    2 years ago

    The people using exitlag to play between 75-90ms are either connecting to servers in Lagos or in Dubai (If it's lower than 90 then it's probably Lagos). I tried it yesterday and I played on 75ms on the Lagos server but it showed up as "unknown". I tried again at night and I was being routed to Dubai. Now I'm being routed to Paris and my ping is 200+. How are y'all still playing on 90ms? I've tried connecting to other servers and it will always take me back to Paris.

  • Sest0_Elemento's avatar
    Sest0_Elemento
    Seasoned Traveler
    2 years ago

    @someothergirl For me its random...i have to login a few times if its sending me to a data center in Europe....i dont seem to be getting to Lagos datacenter, i think i am getting more somewhere in the middle east, as my ping hasnt been lower than 95ms.  It does show up as unkown on my side as well.  At the moment now, i have played a few games and its routing me i think to the middle east (shows up as unknown).  You may also need to set your launcher to use exit lag as well - i have set the launcher and the game on exit lag....i also turned on settings under tools and general - Smart Optimisation and realtime optimisation.

  • Sest0_Elemento's avatar
    Sest0_Elemento
    Seasoned Traveler
    2 years ago

    @Frenchpta / @someothergirl  you probably could if you download the Android Mobile App...get a free trial with them and if you use your phone as a hotspot with the app enabled on it, it could probably work.  I havent tried it out as I run it on my PC.

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