NHL 23 Free on EA Play....
Even when this game is free it's still overpriced. Five hours of VS Online play and I'm done. Tired of being discriminated against online because of my location all the time. This is the WORST onl...
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Sooooooo, what's the solution then when my ISP wants to troubleshoot MY equipment when there's nothing wrong there, and that be the only solution they offer me? I mean I can't get less than 80ms on VS Online, and HUT is somewhere around 50ms, and this is an ALL the time thing.
EA_Aljo
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@MetalHead0703 wrote:
Sooooooo, what's the solution then when my ISP wants to troubleshoot MY equipment when there's nothing wrong there, and that be the only solution they offer me? I mean I can't get less than 80ms on VS Online, and HUT is somewhere around 50ms, and this is an ALL the time thing.
That's pretty normal if you're connecting to a server on the west coast. Online Versus games don't take place on our servers. Either you or your opponent are the host. If you want to go through some troubleshooting, let me know, but there isn't anything we can do about routing.
Actually, I'm not connecting to the West server according to my POS Netgear Netduma router. It located the server somewhere in Ohio maybe? when I was still using it. I'm back on the Asus router now because it just works better in general, but NOTHING works for this NHL series anymore. It doesn't matter what I do, and Spectrum is the ONLY player in town for internet.
What's peculiar is that when my players act slow, sluggish, weak, and stupid, and my controller input doesn't register in the game properly, are also the times I seem to be playing against players with a higher ranked skill level that have players that don't show ANY of these problems. The disparity between players seems to be caused directly by the internet connection, and it's hard to be competitive when the internet doesn't let you compete fairly. My thoughts always go back to the PS3/360 versions of the game and how the internet USUALLY didn't cause many problems aside from once in a blue moon.
- EA_Aljo
Connection is going to vary between most everyone. There are a very high number of variables to take in to account. If you're not seeing any stuttering and it's just input delay, it's possible that could be related to your TV. Are you using Game Mode? Also, if you're on Xbox, make sure Dolby Vision for gaming is disabled. Something else to check is the HDMI cable. It should be a premium one.
Trust me, I'm at least 7 years deep into everything you've just suggested right now. I'm OCD by nature, so if it CAN be done it HAS been done, you can bet your everything on that. I can probably tell better than the average person when something isn't right just by watching what happens on the screen relative to what happens on the controller. I'm very well aware.
It's the fact that these problems that players have have been documented for how many years now, and people at EA pass them off as something the user must be doing wrong. Think about all of the people that say that "this is the only game I have a problem with" and go from that fact. That has ALSO been overstated for almost a decade now, and here we still are having increasing problems of the SAME nature as we always have. If it was a user problem then the user would have these problems with EVERY game, but it's not like that. The fact that EA's games are the ONLY ones giving users issues leads to EA being the problem in some way.
I mean why doesn't my daughter have issues with any of her Call of Duty games...why doesn't my friend have any issues with Fortnite...why is Overwatch flawless online...I mean I'm sure you see the point I'm making here. You can't blame the user when this game series is the ONLY problem for the USER. You need to reevaluate the game at that point, and if nobody will do that then we are screwed as users, and so will EA in the end for not fixing the issue.
