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maximas1986
3 years ago

Bahrain server is alive ...barley

so yesterday me and my friend were able to play on the Bahrain server, it was a very weird but very pleasant surprise.

I didn't play on a local server for over a year with a ping of less than 30 Ms, but the main point is as follows. 

playing with low ping opened the door for so many questions, frustration, and some bad feelings.

it just showed how much it's very very .....very unfair for people who are playing with high ping against low ping opponents.

the difference between the two is very vast it feels like it's a totally different game we are playing, the smoothness, responsiveness, hit registration, movement, gun shooting, aiming, and abilities are experienced totally differently when playing In a low ping vs high ping.

now I really see that people who get to high ranks playing with high ping and in this condition are actually very highly skilled, and have a huge amount of patience and tolerance.

and the people who play against them with 30 and lower ping then brag about outplaying someone playing with 150 and sometimes 250 and 300 pings, didn't do it because of skills (especially Horizon mains) sorry to say it, it might be a shock but you didn't do the kill ....... the game did.

now to the main point, Respawn really needs to do what every other game is doing  ( LOCK THE SERVERS ).

I don't think any of the devs are aware of what it feels like to play APex Legends with high ping, how it is ruining the whole experience, and frustrating, and painful it is. 

maybe they should experience it themselves for an extended period of time to know how it feels.

we had to wait for 10 minutes to get into one match just to be able to have a smooth experience of the game that I love and it was fine by us because we were actually having FUN.

there is no point in having the ability to choose which server to play on, have the servers locked and have the game automatically skip to the next server when no match is found.

COD is doing it that I am sure of and I am sure that all other games are doing it except for Apex, why does Respawn always want to be the odd one out even when it's against the player's benefit?

I played Apex, COD, Rouge Company, blood hunt, PUBG, hyper scape, and even the new Beta test XDefiant and many others, and none of them have the option of selecting servers except for our beloved Apex legends.

I don't want to hear the statement "High ping players have an advantage of compensation ", that's just a broken record to have excuses and it's totally false.

I hope you guys will listen and give it a try, you guys are testing with game-breaking things so why don't you just try this even for a month and see how it goes? 

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  • CCbathwater's avatar
    CCbathwater
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    @maximas1986 Wait... someone played Hyper Scape? 😏
    Anyway, that would be horrible if playing after 10-11pm on EU servers. All the normal players have gone to bed, except for the two the game hand me as teammates, while the rest of the lobby is a major nosebleed of 3-stack galore. It is just unplayable, so I also switch to NA if playing that late.
  • maximas1986's avatar
    maximas1986
    3 years ago
    @CCbathwater Yes i did, the only thing I liked about that game was the gun swap animation 🙂.
    in my region, any server beyond the top 4 in the servers list which is dead servers will gift me a ping of 140 and it can go up to 220 Ms sometimes.
    any further than that I will be having an amazingly stable 300 Ms.
    so you can expect all kinds of supernatural events from getting shot after you pass a door, close it then get behind a wall to actually not being able to pick up a gun from the first attempt or even the third.
    I swear I could get shot after I jump down from an edge and reach the ground by someone who is still standing on the upper side ( have it recorded and that was with 140 ping )
  • hayhor's avatar
    hayhor
    Hero
    3 years ago
    @maximas1986 COD/Warzone locks servers? I've played it and Rogue Company with EU and SA friends for years so it clearly doesn't fully lock servers.

    I think the real answer to this is more servers in more locations but Bahrain is a good example why they do not do this- There either aren't enough players to fill it. I expect they look at players population to determine these things.

    Apex does a pretty good job of using lag compensation to try and level the playing field and include people who don't have server access. Unfortunately that leads to some really odd moments (low ping getting shot behind doors and what not).
  • hayhor's avatar
    hayhor
    Hero
    3 years ago
    @maximas1986 One other thing on this- When people say they want LOCKED servers they need to be careful what they are asking for. Truly locked servers will mean you cannot ever play with friends from other places. Wreckfest launched this way. I had to make a fake UK account just to play with people there. What I believe most really want removed is the ability to choose your server. The game just tries to find games on the closest ones. This is how COD works. The host of a party looks for the closest. Even then I used to get warzone games on 100 ping as the game expanded where it was looking to fill queues quickly.
  • blackeyeriver's avatar
    blackeyeriver
    3 years ago
    @hayhor Yep more servers in more locations would curb the problem. My question is why isn't Apex doing this then? I don't buy the idea that population is the issue when we have local Warzone and CSGO servers on the continent. Pretty much all those players played Apex at one point and stopped because of no local support, and went back the the games I mentioned. Same goes for Valorant.
  • blackeyeriver's avatar
    blackeyeriver
    3 years ago

    @maximas1986You hit the nail on the head with this one. What boggles my mind is how players can play at these low pings and still be this bad at the game. I've seen absolute horrendous performance from players in very high ranks, and they most likely win because their ping is lower in 1v1 fights a lot of the time. High ping adds to reaction time so even if you are extremely gifted, when you add another 200ms to your reaction time you end up being extremely mid or worse, and you are basically playing in the past vs opponents. Compensation will do NOTHING for this. You are 100% correct that a decent high ping player will absolutely destroy a low ping player of the same in game stats if both played on the same ping or on lan.

    I wonder why Bahrain was deserted in the 1st place? The population was there and still is, they just choose not to play on it. This game needs servers in more locations, their distribution is horrendous, at this point they're just giving out free kills to low ping players.

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