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TrollBlarg's avatar
7 years ago

Please reinstate South African servers

There where South African servers. But no longer. The game is unplayable at 220ms (Germany) which is the lowest ping region available. If we don't have South African servers, playing Battlefront 2 in South Africa will be a pipe dream. please reinstate South African servers


Please Refer: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Joining-empty-Star-Wars-battlefront-2-II-servers-South-Africa/m-p/6494515#M5728
https://battlefront-forums.ea.com/discussion/125148/south-african-servers/p1?new=1
https://battlefront-forums.ea.com/discussion/106423/south-africa-still-cant-find-lobbies
https://battlefront-forums.ea.com/discussion/125148/south-african-servers/p1?new=1

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  • EA have done this everywhere it seems. There is now a very limited amount of ping sites. I'd love to know why they have further chosen to ruin this game it seems for alot of people. Now I can also only get a German ping. Despite it only being on average 24-28ms in the UK the game does not play correctly(I dread to think how bad it must be in South Africa). To me it seems like it's totally out of sync, no visible lag, but you die through cover without seeing any opponent, you get damage not connecting until after you die, meaning you also receive damage from your opponent after they have died, you'll get phantom melee damage that should have occurred way before. You get killed before turning a corner and your left stratching your head wondering how the f you could have died, its like every other person playing the game is using an aimbot and overnight I have forgotten how to hold a controller. I play with my sensitivity at max and stick deadzone at 0. This means that I have the fastest possible set up for aiming that the game permits(I do this in any game) , this should provide an advantage against most, except people equally as competitive who have very high sensitivity settings. Yet since they removed 2 of the closest pings I find I'm getting killed easily by noobs before I can even aim at them. All my friends based in the UK have said that they are having similar experiences regardless of their varying ability, sensitivity settings etc. I can only put it down to the fact we are being put in games against people from Europe much closer to Germany. I say this as when in lobbies occupied by mostly German looking screen names(haven't actually checked location) we seem to have the most torrid time quite literally just dropping like flies, no one can quite understand what's going on, sometimes your dying before you even turn a corner yet the game shows you were killed by the enemy around the corner that was at no point in your line of sight, not by an explosive but by their standard weapon. It effectively looks as if you are being shot through the wall, you know it's not because their cheating because it's happening to everyone against different opponents. It happens in different lobbies with different opponents, I have friends based in France who also have a torrid experience playing against people in Germany although it's notably less than in the UK. They need to fix the way this game syncs data especially if they're going to remove a lot of the ping sites, forcing players on to servers much further away to potentially be playing others much closer to the server. When the game syncs data this poorly it really is a game ruiner. 

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    TrollBlarg
    7 years ago
    I agree man. The experience for South African players is horrid. This must be fixed.

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