5 years ago
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...
@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?
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.