What I have in the startup screen:
When connected to New York (from Europe), on the menu screen:
When selecting character:
So apex which one is it?
During the game the ping is usually close to the one in the startup screen.
Now when connected to belgium datacenter I have this in menu:
For real? I live next door to Germany. And I get 196ms, vs. Virginia, which is across an entire ocean... 58ms? It btw said 91ms on the server select screen for Viginia, and 19ms for Frankfurt. So I guess Frankfurt sends me on Singapore servers and Virginia sends me... somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic.
You know what, I'm just gonna play Virginia from now on.
45ms across the globe, 217ms neighboring country. 🤔
What's even weirder, when I'm in the game, the ping I get is random, sometimes I get normal ping 15ms, but most of the time I'll get 200ms ping and above. (7 games 200ms, and 3 games 15 ms, out of 10 games). I think they're sending people to some random far away server, when needed (not enough players on the closest server maybe?), so I rarely play in my closest server.
So my guess is that they send players to more crowded server (don't know where) to avoid long que time, and sometimes they don't have to when there's enough player at the closest server.
We can keep discussing this issue here, unless anyone from the team sees this and address this issue otherwise we are just in a yahoo chat room.
ALSO, if someone on controller could you guys do me a favor and go to firing range and stand in front of a dummy and do a 360 and check if the screen stops when the cursor crosses other dummies. i have made a small clip of it.
just to check if i am the only having this problem or not.
Thanks.
Because it makes sense. At least in the wacky world of Apex.
Oregon 37ms 🤡
Anyone wanna troubleshoot my connection? Can I get Frankfurt/Belgium/Amsterdam down to 100ms if I wire my connection? 😏
Actually, the build year of your home might also be a factor. Specifically, newer houses are build with better wiring / glass fiber.
Inter-continental connections are generally the same for everyone.
Other factors would be your IP or your regional goverment's will to invest in infrastructure.
These are mine:
Oh yeah, and this one.
this is what we all here are talking about, WHY is the ping different when you enter the lobby? why does it connect you to far servers??
i am okay with higher pings but these higher pings have literally broken my aim assist as i play controller on pc. THERE IS LITERALLY 0 aim assist.
Also worth mentioning, ISP's bandwidth management and traffic prioritization. For example: who's paying better, streaming/download services or game publishers? Many people watch Netflix, Youtube or TikTok at the same time, which takes a lot of bandwidth. So who's data comes first? Most servers aren't NASA's super computers. But this can also be applied on the users end: https://www.howtogeek.com/75660/the-beginners-guide-to-qos-on-your-router/
There are also server checks. Even a ping might get verified (firewall and other security checks) before returning, to make sure it's not some malicious intent like ddos or a hack attempt. There are a lot of pings going on internet-wide.
Lastly, many forget that internet traffic is like regular traffic. The more people online doing bandwith-intensive activities, the more congestion. A server can only handle this much. We're not in Star Trek era, yet. So I guess all we can do is to accept and live with or mitigate these issues in some way and await improvements as the time goes on.
Edit: forgot to mention the speed limit of electricity and conductor material resistance. It's basic physics.
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