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CyberDyme
4 years ago
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What do you accept of max latency to server and other players?

Frequent complaints from FPS players are server lag, missing hit registration, players rubberbanding around, being killed after running behind cover, and ultimately also the servers crashing or dropp...
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  • CyberDyme's avatar
    CyberDyme
    4 years ago

    For those of you on console who are not aware...

    This is the the type of controls that server owners/admins have had on their Battlefield servers in the PC world.  This specific example is from the ProCon interface for BF4, which is supported by the majority of server hosting companies that EA partners with.  I definitely hope (expect) us all, including now also us on consoles to get similar server parameter options available as we go cross-play when we setup our BF2032 servers in the Portal !

    Section 1 is even where we can define if we only want to include/exclude certain country locations for players to be able to join the server from.  I can see the point in this for potential better facilitate player communications, while I personally would actually welcome all no matter their language abilities to play on servers I may be admin on. 

    But the section 2 is definitely what I want to use.  Options to define the conditions for kicking players off due to certain latency (ping) characteristics.  So aka do you want players kicked off if a string of spikes goes above a certain latency value? Or do you want to be gentle and measure the average over a higher number of transmissions before making that call?  Technically this is all easy and accessible to enable from EA's side. 

    I do not want to get back into gameplay with high latency players destroying all the gaming pleasure anymore.  A player from a far away continent coming on my European server and having a latency on 1,600+ ms.  I kid you not...    And then another player logging on from the opposite far away side of the world with a latency of 1,200+ ms.   So between them, the server takes 2.8 seconds to reconcile who shot who and how much.  And that is also for all the other 62 players on the BF server in gameplay proximity of those two players...  No thank you, I am getting too old for that...

    And when the technical options are there and already well rehearsed from previous versions, not costing much to enable and we are many players wanting the same, then EA needs to make this available for all to use by default ! 

     

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frantayps
4 years ago

what @Oskool_007 said

Instead of stupid ping numbers i would love to have a constant connection quality displayed.

And based on that a auto kick if connection is unstable for more then 2 min. 

A Player with a 120 ms ping who has a stable connection is more worth then a Player with a 20ms ping playing on WLAN with lots of pakets dropped due to his unstable wireless connection to his router. 

I also see  lot of people playing with 4G/5G and good pings 20-40ms but they have a really really bad connection. 

Most people arguing in this forums about max ping and region locks have zero understanding of how the system / netcode works.

There a a number of factors which lead to an overall good experience for the player. 

But for a max number i would like to see a max of 125 ms. 

  • ShevermiN's avatar
    ShevermiN
    4 years ago

    Stable ping is the thing  then you can play up to 300   but I feel  about 120 is the max ping before it stars to drag the server down.  Remember the server tick rate is 60  so sub 10 ping is just as far away from the servers tick as 110 is.

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