I am based in the EU (Poland), when I try to play with my friends in the USA, we observe an interesting connection issue.
The person sending the game requests ends up with a perfect connection, but the request will see the yellow/red ping images during game play. This issue has been consistently reproduced, no matter who sends request, the acceptor gets a bad ping.
We all have great internet, this is linked with EA.
Are you playing someone in the usa from poland? That is a pretty far distance and would be why you have a higher ping.
Yea exactly! I'm playing someone from USA from Poland. Is this behaviour expected? Especially when the person sending the request has no issues (good ping), but the person accepting the request will always have either yellow or red ping. Is there a way to mitigate this?
You are likely connecting to a server in the usa. So the person in the usa has a good connection. This wouldn’t be a server or ea issue it’s simply a distance issue.
If you do a speed test and ping any server not an ea server halfway around the world you will have higher ping.
Thanks for the response. I'm a cloud engineer and I actually understand this. Although, i'll expect EA to automatically connect players to servers approximately mid way from both players without any extra effort from players. It's strange to accept players won't be able to play online friendlies with their friends across the world in 2025😀
This is pretty basic stuff for match making and has been around as a development principle in gaming for the past few decades. So, of course EA would not do it 😂
If you both connect halfway then you will both have terrible gameplay. You guys are just to far apart.
Not sure if your reply is meant to be sarcastic or serious, but whatever. Looking deeper into this, I see in online-friendly mode, there are no real EA servers involved. It's technically the host acting as a server, and the other player joining the host's server.
https://www.reddit.com/r/EASportsFC/comments/1ahoimz/fc24_online_friendlies_high_ping/
I'll try to work around this issue using a router with geofilter to force my console to connect to East coast servers, and also setup a VPN on the router routing my traffic via the East coast. Theoretically, Using a proxy will already introduce extra hops and will probably affect my ping negatively, but it might just provide better routing than my ISP and at this point I'll try everything possible.
Here is the list of modes that are on servers.
EAS FC uses game data centers so that someone else’s connection doesn’t impact your own gameplay. The game data center handles the distribution of gameplay information to all players.
The center collects inputs from your game at a set interval of time, and then sends this information back to everyone else in a match. This happens at the same time for all players and is determined by their individual connections.
For example, if one player is streaming 4K movies and trying to play on a weak Wi-Fi signal, their activities shouldn’t impact anyone else in that match. The game data center still sends the information back at the same time.
A game data center acts as the host of the match in multiplayer matches.
Same issue brother! Did u find any solution to fix this?
Bro even me and my friend play in the same country same state then also their is this lag
