NHL26 matchmaking region restricted?
Hi guys, normally never playing CHEL. My last time was like 2022 or something. Now living in India, so my region is Asia-Pacific. While I connect to some games in HUT, I was not able to find any ...
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I'll add my observations from the past few days as I have been changing some network settings. I am in india
So if I changed my DNS to Google's and reconnected in world of chel then navigated to club search, the search option sometimes showed "Europe central" in recommended region. So if I proceed with that settings in matchmaking, I was able to match with other players fairly quickly but the ping was 250+ in most of the games. On a few occasions it showed ping equivalent to what I had in nhl 25 (150 ish).
But most of the time, regardless of DNS settings, the recommended region in the club search was ASIA pacific for me. And finding players in woc is impossible then unless you have a friend in EU or NA who can matchmake for you.
I also played in NA west coast servers and ironically it was giving me slightly better ping 240ish.
I know in asia the player pool is very low,but I hope there is some resolution to this issue as the game this year is fantastic.
EA_Aljo
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Community ManagerAppreciate the update. Thank you. Hopefully, we'll have some news on this soon.
This seems to have gone from barely functional to completely broken. I have not been able to find a game in Ranked since the 10th. When I check my previous opponents games they haven't played since their last game against me on the 10th.
Champs games were somewhat findable this weekend but it seems like either a) every single Asian server player has given up or b) something is broken in Ranked to even allow people on this server to connect at all.I understand that we are such a small population of players that it doesn't matter to you but please just revert to whatever it was last year that allowed to use actually play the game we paid full price for.
- EA_Aljo
Hi there. I will pass on the feedback. Thank you.
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Champs is completely broken the past 2 days. I would search for games at the same time as other Asia-Pac players and neither of us would find games. 14 hours a day searching and zero games found while I know for a fact other people are searching for games and also not finding. If you are going to force us to play on a server with 5-8 active players on the entire server you would need to remove the restrictions like amount of wins or whatever is happening.
A couple of Euro's having to play 1 in 100 games of bad ping seems like a much better solution than just not allowing us to play games at all.
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- EA_Aljo3 months ago