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TheUnusedCrayon
3 years agoSeasoned Ace
@EA_Aljo I am aware of this. This is why I encourage the devs to play the mode so they understand what it is like to play as a west coast guy for EASHL. West coast guys can play drop in games with a great connection for some reason, but when it comes to EASHL, the servers automatically become laggy because majority of the population is on the east coast.
There's never any middle ground. It's not like the game chooses the in between servers (which would be fair), it chooses the server that is closest to the majority of people, giving west coast players a huge disadvantage and east coast players a huge advantage. It's like playing with a good connection on VS or HUT if you're an east coast player and a fair or poor connection on VS or HUT if you're a west coast player.
Consistently west coast or players who are in southern US are at a huge disadvantage because the game 90% of the time caters to people near Montreal due to server location and population density.
There's never any middle ground. It's not like the game chooses the in between servers (which would be fair), it chooses the server that is closest to the majority of people, giving west coast players a huge disadvantage and east coast players a huge advantage. It's like playing with a good connection on VS or HUT if you're an east coast player and a fair or poor connection on VS or HUT if you're a west coast player.
Consistently west coast or players who are in southern US are at a huge disadvantage because the game 90% of the time caters to people near Montreal due to server location and population density.
EA_Aljo
Community Manager
3 years agoMost likely, your drop-in games are with other west coast players so it's putting you on a west coast server. If you're playing club games where the others in your club are mostly from the north/east and the club is set to a north/east region, you're going to be playing on that server. The best I can advise is to get in a club with other west coast players. Hopefully, we'll have a better way to handle these connections in the future. Currently though, with hockey being a more popular sport in the northern and eastern regions, it means the southern and western players won't have as large a player pool to play with and potentially end up on servers in their regions.
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