I play GA & HvV on Xbox Australian region with ping site time around 23ms and 50mb/s cable and never have lag problems. Other game modes are not accessible unless I use a different ping site such as US Oregon @190ms or US Virginia @ 243ms.If there is lag via these sites, it is barely noticeable. Anything over these, lag makes the game unplayable. @chuntery I would expect the examples in you post would be also unplayable.
When you are playing, is there a message on the top right of screen such as a small bar graph highlighting "X" number of bars and stating "slow internet connection may effect gameplay"?
Anything under 3 bars & lag/dropouts would be a problem.
@CrimsonLeader88- If it was a game bug then I would have the same problem. I think the original bug was when the selected ping site in options would not be maintained. That was fixed and the "Default" ping added.
What ping site are you using and what region are you & have you tried other ping sites (taking account of time zones)?
@ggibb65 Sure I see 3 or 4 bars and get the message that it may effect gameplay. It flashes up and disappears. Those ping results are from last year and are not recent. I believe I have seen an improvement.
But during a game the worst scenario is that everything stops dead and I lose the game completely. This is a rare occurrence. The more likely scenario is that I am at a disadvantage versus the other players ….they seem to react more quickly esp. in a one on one situation. I cannot compete on an equal footing. So I change my game play to long distance confrontations and avoid melee. That way I can get a decent points score.
I'm PC based not console. Now this isn't limited to one computer. It happens on multiple computers … so I believe this is not device related. I have a high end fibre internet connection with high upload and download rates. I have tried different physical locations but the results were inconclusive.
@chuntery wrote:@ggibb65 Sure I see 3 or 4 bars and get the message that it may effect gameplay. It flashes up and disappears. Those ping results are from last year and are not recent. I believe I have seen an improvement.
But during a game the worst scenario is that everything stops dead and I lose the game completely. This is a rare occurrence. The more likely scenario is that I am at a disadvantage versus the other players ….they seem to react more quickly esp. in a one on one situation. I cannot compete on an equal footing. So I change my game play to long distance confrontations and avoid melee. That way I can get a decent points score.
I'm PC based not console. Now this isn't limited to one computer. It happens on multiple computers … so I believe this is not device related. I have a high end fibre internet connection with high upload and download rates. I have tried different physical locations but the results were inconclusive.
@chunteryWhat I highlighted in red - does this mean that the gameplay stops and then crashes back to desktop?
PLEASE DON'T TAKE OFFENCE TO WHAT I AM GOING TO SAY NEXT!! as I don't know where you are playing from or your skill level.
I am only an average player & I too, play my game from a long range style as I have found that in close one on one confrontations I usually come out second best. There are some highly skilled players in the game and many play in groups with their friends (& can talk to each other) making it even more difficult for (solo) players of my level to compete. Many of these players being in a team get their battle points very quickly & are able to get access to heroes, artillery etc early in the game and tend to hold them for longer. To compensate I play the game at a distance and also concentrate on getting or helping others on my team get the objectives ( objectives give you the most points being that SWBFII is an objective based game). If I am in the top 20 players then I am happy that I have done my job. If I have high teens or above eliminations, then that's a bonus. I have to use tactics that suit my skill level. With the varied quality of players in the game, it would be rare for me to (as you say) compete on an equal footing - I win some, I lose a lot but I still have fun trying.
Having said all that, if you are one of the highly skilled players then I misinterpreted your post & will have to eat crow!!!
@ggibb65 Normally it will crash out of the round and go to the game main menu screen. I'm speculating that the interruption is quickly recovered but not sufficiently to stay in the game round. I again stress this doesn't happen very often. The * flahing "your connection may affect gameplay" does happen often.
Its interesting to see that others have seen similar "connection" issues. I suspect ...stress suspect ... that potentially the Root Cause is with the servers that EA buffers the incoming user prior to the actual game server. These servers act as EAs first line of protection/defence. Possibly they struggle occasionally and this would be different for different regions.
As regards my gameplay … sadly I can only describe myself at best as average. Have I ever topped the leader board? - yes. Have I ever played a whole game and ended up bottom? - yes. Am I levelled up troopers at 70 and starfighters at 40 - you bet I am!
I readily admit to struggling when competing with those players who are one shot wonders or manage to hit their target with a lowly sidearm/shotgun at a distance that my best sniper rifle isn't accurate. But hey that the nature of the game and we compensate. 🙂
The game is utterly unplayable for me. I play on EU servers as I’m from South Africa and the
game is dead here. The problem is that my character would freeze, but everything else is still moving as per usual and I can move my camera around with the mouse. After a few seconds my character moves, as if he were standing in place the whole time. Or I die while I can’t move and it does it again when I spawn in. Happens ever since launch but not beta.
