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Hero (Retired)

3 years ago

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Just out of curiosity.

I think your connection to the EA servers (i.e., ping, latency, location etc. etc.) can skew your perception as to how well this game plays, which can adversely affect a lot of the other ways you per...

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Ironhead841
3 years ago
@UP_LordPlumber
You had a consistent ping, latency and time nudge for four rounds?
That's great man, I very rarely get one round like that, much less four in a row, that's probably one reason why your hit-reg feels ok to you, and why mine feels so inconsistent too me.
The weird thing is the entire group of guys I play with are all located in the Pacific Northwest and as @ATFGunr pointed out we're all fairly close to the Seattle AWS center so you would think our connections would be more stable and consistent, but we all have similar experiences.
None of us are located in the same town so maybe it's a regional issue?

ATFGunr

Legend

3 years ago

@Ironhead841 28 Lat, 32 up to 44 ALAT, TN from 7 up to over 400. I used to get “good” servers every few rounds like you said, but since 3.2 came out, it’s been all bad.

32 to 35 ALAT is playable, anything higher I cannot hit anything. TN above 20 like you said is bad, but when it spikes to 400 I can only let go of the mouse and wait for it to drop.

AngrySquid270
3 years ago
I don't normally monitor these values (other than ping), but here's my numbers based on less than 5min of running around on a couple different servers. I have access to BF2042 on a variety of platforms (yeah for GamePass!):
PS5
PS4 (running on PS5)
XSX
XBone (Running on XSX)
Low end laptop (3050 GTX, 5800H, 16GB RAM, running absolute lowest graphics setting BF2042 allows, I've done exactly zero to optimize this laptop for gaming. Running 'Studio' drivers from Nvidia rather than 'Gaming', probably some bloatware/background programs, etc...)
PS5 is hardwired (gigabit fiber).
XSX is wireless thru 4 walls.
PC is wireless thru 4 walls + there's a 83" TV directly between the PC and router that's likely not helping. PC WiFi says 3/4 bars.)
All numbers taken within about an hour of each other.
Region - Seattle
Ping - 22-24ms for all consoles. 28-30ms for PC.
Average Latency - 40-45
Time Nudge - XSX and PS5 were 7-12. 'XBone' 15-20. 'PS4' 25-30. PC 15-400, occasionally spiking to 700.
Very small sample size. Hard to confidently draw any conclusions, but I'll draw them anyway:
Time nudge for all consoles was rock solid, maybe fluctuating +/-3.
Average time nudge for PS5/XSX was significantly lower than PS4/Xbone.
PS4 (wired) time nudge was much higher than XBone (wireless).
PC time nudge was all over the place. Would stabilize around 15 in quiet areas of the map. Get around other players and it'd constantly spike to 150, 400 even 700. Constantly getting the packet loss icon. Night and day compared to any of the consoles.
Curious how much of that PC time nudge issue is due to my 'worst case scenario' PC setup versus issues inherent to the PC networking. I'll see if I can try the PC in the same room as the router to minimize that variable.
Edit: Moved laptop into room with router and gave it a fresh reboot. Time nudge spikes are gone, pretty steady at 20. Ping went from 30 to 25. Improvements could possibly be attributed to 1) Better connection/less interference thru TV 2) Fresh restart closed some resource hog of a program. 3) I just got lucky with a better server.