Duos: 10 seconds behind my partner

Multiplayer Discussion
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My RL friend and I have been playing duos for a month now while talking on discord and we’ve noticed I’m always 10 seconds behind on combat. He’s consistently reacting to things that happen in the battle and it takes me around 10 seconds to catch up to what happened. He also returns to the shop so much earlier than me that he’s often peeking at my shop board and commenting on what’s available there before I’m even done with combat! It’s very annoying. This has persisted through several updates so it doesn’t seem like any of the devs have noticed this.

My computer is a bit older, but this game doesn’t seem to demand much. I can play things like call of duty just fine. Any ideas?

2

It’s your processor. People who play mobile are like 30 seconds behind me.

3

the timer is based on how much money you spent on the game, for me I get 300 seconds max per turn in late stage games

4

Seems odd it could be my processor… I mean there aren’t alot of things happening at once in a game like this… I bet a simple calculator can handle the combat at the pace it goes. I also tried turning down my resolution and graphics quality in case it could be the video card, but I got no gain… still 5-10 seconds behind my partner.

5

It can be your location, perhaps? Bad connection to Blizzard server with all them others in game.

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If you are 5-10 seconds behind your partner, it is 100% your processor or internet. You are behind because your internet isn’t as fast as his or your processor isn’t as fast.

All my friends that play on Mobile are behind me on my PC. If you both play on PC and both have really good processors, your internet is the culprit or your PC isn’t worked as well as your friend.

Despite what you think when you say “a simple calculator can handle the combat at the pace it goes” is demonstrably false. Mobile processors aren’t handling the combat calculations as fast as a PC is.

7

But he’s not on mobile, and it can definitely be his location to the server.

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That’s why I said what I said about internet and PC.

9

That’s not really his internet. It’s his location to Blizzard’s server. But whatever. Guess I already covered it earlier.

10

Last time I checked, your location to a server, no matter where it is, has to go through the internet and is part of it. Like wtf, seriously?

11

Alright, whatever. You’re totally not implying that his internet or processor is inferior. Like, wtf?

Whatever.

12

I’m implying that his internet ping is worse and that’s why he’s behind.

13

Alright. Whatever you say.

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His internet could be 100% fine but his connection to the server is poor due to his location. He could have better internet than his friend, but still lag behind because his friend could be located near the Blizzard server.

So, no, you were not saying what I was saying.

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There is something rly off with this i am sometimes almost a minute after the teamate.
And we live about 1km apart, he plays on a 10yo laptop with poor connection.
I have a brand new pc and rly good connection.
So there is something thats rly rly off.