Re: How to play defense on Next-Gen Madden 21
@Drizzt9922 do you always face these losing streaks? or does it differ from time to time?
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Fairly regularly get long, bad losing streaks. Probably every few days. In between i'll go on shorter winning streaks when the game matches me up against people with lower OVRs but i think thats mostly when most U.S. users aren't online.
- @Drizzt9922 so, I'd guess you are not from the US? for me, it is similar if I play quite early in the day (in Europe). Sometimes I meet players where the name suggests that it might be an Italian, French or German player. Sometimes I also hear it from the language in voice chat. In these cases, it might be that my opponent is even more severely affected. that's why I'm sometimes able to have some winning streaks too. but it is no fun either if I see it with the naked eye that my opponent struggles just due to bad latency...
I guess the latency issue might depend on the number of players currently playing (and therefore using EA's servers) too. For instance, when the MUT Sugar Rush House Rules event started (at the weekend), I faced severe lags since there seemed to be a lot of players playing. A few days later (during midweek), it was much better... Yes, i'm located in UK and there's definitely longer queue times in the morning here than in afternoon & evening, and I think you're right i've seen latency in other players.
I have pretty strong internet service, advertised in the 150mbps range but regularly hanging around 70-100. I didn't experience bad connections at all during sugar rush-- the mode was one of the best times i've had on madden bc of play cooldown (that's a different conversation).
I guess Madden just isnt really made for non-US players- @Drizzt9922 Other continents would probably need some EA servers too. If the playerbase was too small e.g. in Europe (i.e. causing long queue times during matchmaking) it would be fair if H2H games would be sometimes hosted by US based server (if one of the players is based there) and sometimes by Europe-based servers. If both players are close to the same servers (e.g. in the US) it should be clear which servers to use.
