Dodgy servers
Want to know if people are having trouble playing the game atm, trying to play ranked here and I keep ending on bad servers that make me lag out of existence. My ping is fine, I checked if I joined w...
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@apostolateofDOOM For example, Bahrain data centers were added to the list in 2020: https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/gifzoz/apex_legends_ad
ded_a_new_serverbahrain/ Interestingly, some people complain about not finding matches and waiting too long when connected to that server. For me, this means that either the queues consist only of players connected to that server or the matches are only hosted on machines inside that specific data center.
It's hard to compare Apex with Battlefield Heroes. BFH is from a different reality, what worked then doesn't necessarily work as well now. I can't find BF numbers, but I doubt it scaled so fast and to such high numbers of players (Apex was the fastest scaling multiplayer game at the time of its launch, probably still holds the record). Also, BFH doesn't look like it required nearly the same amount of computing power (by considering the standards back then) as Apex needs now. All in all, BFH was probably less expensive to host on dedicated servers, while the cloud was not as spread, as strong and as accessible as today.
I could probably go on and on, but the thing is that they won't touch this part, it's way too late now for such a change at the core of the game.
ded_a_new_serverbahrain/ Interestingly, some people complain about not finding matches and waiting too long when connected to that server. For me, this means that either the queues consist only of players connected to that server or the matches are only hosted on machines inside that specific data center.
It's hard to compare Apex with Battlefield Heroes. BFH is from a different reality, what worked then doesn't necessarily work as well now. I can't find BF numbers, but I doubt it scaled so fast and to such high numbers of players (Apex was the fastest scaling multiplayer game at the time of its launch, probably still holds the record). Also, BFH doesn't look like it required nearly the same amount of computing power (by considering the standards back then) as Apex needs now. All in all, BFH was probably less expensive to host on dedicated servers, while the cloud was not as spread, as strong and as accessible as today.
I could probably go on and on, but the thing is that they won't touch this part, it's way too late now for such a change at the core of the game.
@DoYaSeeMeBahrain complaints don't make sense as i have London selected and still get connected to other data centers after a small wait.. Germany often.
I'm just using BFH as an example and there are plenty of others that were successful but if using both instant and server select worked then and on more recent titles then it should now as it's using the exact same method of combining different ways to join the same servers. Nothing really difficult for them to do.
If anything, automated should be improved with more players to draw from and it should be in a better position to give a more stable experience overall. This can also be said with broken rank mix we currently have.
Which then begs the question, why is it so crap for most now?
Also why does it matter what computer power is needed to run the game? I'm not just talking about dedicated servers (there are various ways to cover that cost anyway) but what about manually selecting servers?
So not having a server select is a core part of the game that can't be touched now?
- @apostolateofDOOM I can confirm the Bahrain situation. I have myself tried finding games in it, but it's of no avail at certain times. Only peak time is best to play on it.
From my experience if you have a asterisk on the server you selected, you will always be on the geographical server that you selected. I had never experienced that big of ping inconsistencies ever. I don't know how you guys get on different locations tbh. - @BaldWraithSimp I get on different locations using the data center. Whenever I pick Singapore server I end up playing with english talking players and when I pick tokyo I end up playing with japanese talking players. The only thing I wish is that the ping at the start screen would be a bit more accurate or they should just take it off.
- @BaldWraithSimp I always have London selected but end up in Frankfurt.
Ping isn't the only issue and it's not just your ping to the servers but others too which can effect your gameplay. - @BaldWraithSimp I get on different locations all the time. But I think that is because there are so many in the US.
Well, what I think happens is that when lobby servers are at maximum capacity, they pass new players / queues to the closest data center, which also needs to be under a certain ping value (e.g. 100ms). Bahrain is probably too far away from all the others, so players there have to wait or manually connect to other data centers. London is probably a couple of ms away from Frankfurt and these 2 are some of the biggest and busiest data centers in Europe. Probably the same can be said about the US data centres, that's why you end up playing in different locations.
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