@DK9027 I never explicitly said that you'd get kicked if you ping spiked. I understand that that can happen so ping would only be taken into account on the lobby screen and you'd never get kicked from a game due to a change in internet (unless the internet actually causes you to crash, of course). As for your other point, I think we'll have to agree to disagree. The way I see it, a player with bad internet affects at least 15 players, or a fourth of a lobby, and that's being conservative. Fighting against a player with bad internet is frustrating and unfair. In my opinion, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few here, and one player's experience must be lowered as a means of improving many others' experiences.
I totally agree that people who teleports around when moving should not be allowed to play. But I think the situation is more complicated than just prevent high pingers to join the game because I am fairly sure that its not ONLY high ping that causes players to teleport.
I know this because me and five other friends actually tried this out. We went into the same, casual lobbies as two teams where everyone used a VPN to manipulate our pings, testing different pings from our default 15-30 ms up to 300 ms. And the result of this experiment was :
So based on this experiment, it seems to me that teleporting players is caused by something else than high ping or perhaps a combination of high ping and something else. Unstable connections with uneven data flow perhaps? Weak Wifi?
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