I hear a lot of talk about east vs west coast but no one seems to ever actually say what is the difference. Is one better than the other? And why do people VPN to the opposite region? I can’t tell the difference whenever I get into a west coast game
East coast is supposed to be where all the memesters play. It’s where all the bizarre team comps, one-tricks, and strange tactics are said to dominate.
In fact, I just played an absurd game where my Symmetra and I did some serious spawncamping and everyone just said “wow, is this an east coast game?” only for one person to say that it indeed was.
Its mostly about super high ranks
East Coast was better than West until OWL started and concentrated all the best players in LA. Now East is just left with assorted one tricks and Contendies players who just can’t quite make it. East people who don’t want to deal with that will VPN to the West, and Westies who wanna go pubstomp or meme VPN to East.
Well, all the OWL players are on west coast so people who want high end gaming vpn there.
East coast was never better, even before owl it just kinda coincidently had the trashcan quality games… Well more of them anyways… I’ve lived in Maine, as of season 7(?) I live in Nevada, trust me there was always a difference haha
West Coast = Pro players
East Coast = Torb Mains
Hit Ctr+Shift+N in a game. It will bring up a graph and a bunch of network stats. In the top left, it will say “lax1” or “ord1”. The servers are named after the nearest airport, so 1 in LA and 1 in Chicago.
West coast has a ton of stoners out late at night. Makes games… “interesting”, as long as you don’t mind losing constantly.
In general, statistically, West Coast is generally better in ratios because of the high concentration of high tech gaming type people.
However, the East Coast is far more populated and consists of a way bigger population of gamers.
Most of this sounds mostly like BS from “insert generic forum/content creator”
You’re both equally American and therefore the same to us over in Europe.
Edit: Realising now that this is an incredibly necro’d thread. Damn!
Well Europe is 6 different languages in the same lobby, as well as the angry knife weilding brits. There’s a reason we always memed about th EU servers, even to this day.
(I had the wrong post reply on the deleted one)
The difference is timezone and latency if they put you in matches on the coast further from you. The end.
It’s pronounced knoif. Get it right. Or we will leave the EU again!