Time to death
Many of you will already be familiar with the term Time To Death (TTD), but I'll shortly summarize it to ensure we are all talking about the same thing. Every weapon in the game has a Time To Kill (T...
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I have/had the same experience in 2042 and the beta where I get the drop on an enemy and land 5, 6, 7, sometimes 8 hit markers just to have the guy turn around and insta-kill me. This is why a server browser needs to be added. When I could choose the server with the best ping in previous BF titles I rarely had this issue. People saying portal will take the place of a true server browser are right and wrong. I'm sure portal will be great for launch and months after that, but when portal servers fail to populate over time they'll disappear and we'll be left with XP farm servers like 2042's portal has become.
In theory that's what the matchmaker should do, it should put you in the server with the lowest available ping. The problem is when it can't find anything, so it starts searching for servers with worse ping. So even if you have a server browser, if those servers can be filled using the matchmaker, the problem doesn't go away. Because you may have good ping to that server, but the other people might not have. What we need in addition to a server browser are simple ping limits.
