GUIDE: Identify your server to pair with players with low latency

Hello everyone!

With the new release of these forums, I want to take the time to point out a very important detail when you are looking for other players to play with. Each of the three account regions (North America, Europe, Korea/Asia) have several server locations in that region. For example, there are servers in Irvine, California for the western half of the North American continent, and there are servers in Chicago, Illinois for the eastern half. So some players may need to figure out which server they are if they can’t tell which half they belong in.

Here is how to find out:

  1. Open Overwatch and go to the Training Range. Select a hero and enter the range.
  2. Press Ctrl+Shift+N to open your in-game NetGraph tool (same key combination to close it).
  3. Look in the upper left corner of the shaded area to find the IP address. Next to the IP address there is a three letter code. This is an airport code to describe the geographical location of those servers.

Here is where your server location is listed

Then just post your Server code to describe your closest server location. This allows you to meet other players who are connecting to a similar server set and all players will have the lowest latency possible!

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