These were my steps to solve the issue.
Things I tried previously
I had followed this guide previously so I’ll leave it here encase it helped, but I don’t think so.
After watching this I did not want to clean boot my PC, since I knew it was fine.
My DNS has always been;
1.1.1.1
8.8.8.8
Steps I took;
- Close Battle.Net
- win+r
- %programdata%
- Renamed “Blizzard Entertainment” to “Blizzard Entertainment_bak” encase any issues came up
- Relaunched Battle.Net
- Changed region to America (I was on Europe)
- Played the game fine after that, NO ping increase, still my local servers
I have since changed it back to Europe and still had no issue.
Follow up Information for Blizzard Staff
I checked the “%programdata%/Blizzard Entertainment” folder after playing for a while and it was substantially smaller and had far less files than it had previously, so I assume there were files left behind from the MW:BETA that were conflicting.