NHL SERVERS!/New Servers
Can anybody tell me where all the NHL servers are located? Apparently there is a new North Central Server, Is this in Canada and where abouts if so?
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- @Tedfox39 The best I can get is about 25ms, which I could live with if there wasn't input lag. I've felt "better" games with higher ping. I could fight through ping issues but I can't play this game adequately with whatever is generating the input lag, it affects everything you need to perform
- @Дэнниболлс Dear developers! Does EA have any plans to make a simple and fair implementation of the network connection? It just got to the point of absurdity. Not always, but very often, when playing with the Swedes or Finns, it is simply impossible to play! Although I have a ping of 15-17, but in such games the bot reacts to any button presses on the gamepad with a delay of almost 1 second! With my speed at 90 and acceleration at 90 and without fatigue, I am overtaken by rival bots that have speed and acceleration of 85! For our team, the puck does not stick to the sticks, but it sticks to the opponent. Defense Defenseman with a golden TRUSILENCE cannot hit the opponent's bot, and if he hits, he cannot shoot him down. Passes from opponents go right through the sticks and skates of our three bots, and our passes are always intercepted by the opponent. I have been paying money for this game for many years. But every year I get more and more disappointed, because the implementation of the network connection is dishonest!
- @dannythetemp Dear developers! Does EA have any plans to make a simple and fair implementation of the network connection? It just got to the point of absurdity. Not always, but very often, when playing with the Swedes or Finns, it is simply impossible to play! Although I have a ping of 15-17, but in such games the bot reacts to any button presses on the gamepad with a delay of almost 1 second! With my speed at 90 and acceleration at 90 and without fatigue, I am overtaken by rival bots that have speed and acceleration of 85! For our team, the puck does not stick to the sticks, but it sticks to the opponent. Defense Defenseman with a golden TRUSILENCE cannot hit the opponent's bot, and if he hits, he cannot shoot him down. Passes from opponents go right through the sticks and skates of our three bots, and our passes are always intercepted by the opponent. I have been paying money for this game for many years. But every year I get more and more disappointed, because the implementation of the network connection is dishonest!
I think you are confused about how server gameplay works. There aren’t “better” servers anywhere. There are more people in the North east though. That’s just population. That was all I meant about more people searching there.
You don’t play a team on separate servers ever. Everyone in the match is on one server. There isn’t anything possible outside of LAN matches to allow everyone to play on the same ping. Peer to peer does, but those connections are often unstable and can be manipulated by shady players.
I understand the server situation. I think it’s sad that the NhL online side of things in the North is failing because when the servers get over populated in the US it basically makes the game unplayable. People are frustrated and it seems to me that there is less and less teams or players that are playing a mode like World of Chel. I just think that if we got a server for Canadians there would be a large amount of players interested. But the more and more people that no longer play the game the harder it’ll be to ever get those players back.
Also, while we are on the ping topic. In NHL 21 with the same internet connection, which is 500 up and 500 down on my PS4 basically any world of chel game I would get a consistent 45 Ms. Ever since I purchased my PS5 my MS for nhl 22, and 23 will never be better then 53 Ms. Would this be something to do with the servers, input lag different for the Ps5?
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The servers are not overloaded. Having a small difference like 8 ms could come from anywhere. Also, while adding more servers can help those farther away from a server, it would also make for a much smaller pool of players since this would split players from other servers. If the servers were overloaded, you'd most likely see more servers added.
Well I’m just trying to make sense of why the latency issues are happening with NHL 23, nothing from my internet stand point has changed, but yet my online experience has gotten worse with nhl 22, and 23 compared to any other nhl game I’ve played online.
Yes I’ve talked to ISP, my latency test on my internet connection is 30 MS. When I play world of Chel, the best connection I can get is 53MS.
