Here is how leaver penalties shud work

[Outside-11127]

select a server (e.g. ord1)

if not selected server, u r free 2 leave 4 free.
no penalties

bcuz most ppl dont want to play at 280ms lag.
it’s not fun it’s not competive.

if u host us wrong, we leave and go next.

nothing but lax1 hosting for ord1 players (me and my m8s, all diff isps/routing). it’s 100% ur cost saving hosting.

pls explain how in literally every game mode (even casuaal arcade)
we don’t get to play from closest known datacenter.

[Ashtoreth-21299]

i know on Smite they let you select NA East, NA West and not just “NA.” slick features. sad that blizz is still in the Stone Age tho.

[Kaedi-11739]

@Outside-11127

pls explain how in literally every game mode (even casuaal arcade)
we don’t get to play from closest known datacenter.

Details here:

@JoshNash-1223

Hey everyone!

Today’s Global Battle.net update has caused some confusion in the community about region locking and swapping, so let’s take a moment to provide some clarity about details that might not be immediately clear:

Why can’t I swap regions anymore?

The simple answer is, you are placed into the best match based on a variety of factors including player skill and ping. Getting more technical, it’s because the regions themselves no longer exist (at least not in the way players traditionally understand them), so there is no region to swap to.

But my friends all play in a different region than I do!

You’ll still be able to play with your friends in other regions. In the case that you’re in a party, our systems work to place you in games with the lowest ping and best skill level for you or your party. These changes are aimed at ensuring that queue times are minimized and that the average ping is relatively low.

Outside of gameplay, some have noted that General chat contains players from all regions. Global chat is no longer locked to a particular region, meaning that you can see messages from players in other regions. However, this has no bearing on who you are matched with in games.

All that said, we’re currently tracking and communicating feedback that there are certain instances where the ability to change your region manually feels necessary. This feedback will be helpful as the design team prioritizes improvements and future development of the Global Play functionality.

We have made a configuration change recently (post-release) that should greatly reduce the frequency of getting into matches with high ping. Many of the reports we’ve seen today of players getting into mismatched regions have been at incredibly high MMR as the system expands its parameters to find a fair match. We’ll continue to keep an eye on this and making adjustments as needed.

In your case, Outside, I believe you mentioned your skill tier is in Bronze, which is a very low populated skill tier. So you are going to have more increased instances of playing in more distant datacenter locations in order to gather enough players in a general region to get a match going.

[MysteryGuest-21996]

@Outside-11127

pls explain how in literally every game mode (even casuaal arcade)
we don’t get to play from closest known datacenter.

Sharing the same feeling, with 14ms…
It’s like I’m connected to the most close datacenter, but still playing on an other continent.

[Kaedi-11739]

@MysteryGuest-21996

Sharing the same feeling, with 14ms…
It’s like I’m connected to the most close datacenter, but still playing on an other continent.

Let me get this straight, the in-game latency reports 14 milliseconds, but you feel like you are lagging a lot? That doesn’t sound like a connection issue, but a input response issue with your system.

[Cennix-21762]

can you please talk normally this gave me a headache trying to decipher this

[MysteryGuest-21996]

@Kaedi-11739

That doesn’t sound like a connection issue, but a input response issue with your system.

Maybe you’re right, I need to check my SIM, I thought it was stable too.

First I couldn’t login, now i got 520ms

[Kaedi-11739]

@MysteryGuest-21996

Maybe you’re right, I need to check my SIM, I thought it was stable too.

Carefully review the NetGraph to exactly figure out any specific issue.

1. Start a game of Overwatch (Quick Play, custom game, etc.)
2. Open the NetGraph by pressing Ctrl + Shift + N
3. Monitor the NetGraph as you play, if you see large Orange blocks scroll along the graphs, that is a connection issue, if many white blocks scroll by there is an input performance issue. (Note it is common and normal to see tiny specs of either blocks or large ones when a map loads up at the start of a match, so ignore those).

On the NetGraph you can also check the direct PING, RTT, and IND stats which can help point to possible connection issues that the normal LATENCY stat doesn’t report on. Your SIM rate to determine input/output performance will also be displayed there.

@MysteryGuest-21996

First I couldn’t login, now i got 520ms

This is your current latency in game? Did you search for a match or just jump straight into the training range?

[MysteryGuest-21996]

@Kaedi-11739

This is your current latency in game? Did you search for a match or just jump straight into the training range?

This was from the training area, it was normal before i posted my first message.

Meanwhile I did take a look at my SIM value, it was 5 with sometimes a jump to 8 max

[Kaedi-11739]

@MysteryGuest-21996

This was from the training area, it was normal before i posted my first message.

Okay so what most likely happened here is that you immediately logged on and without waiting jumped into the training range. This often will put you on a more distant server because the game client hasn’t had the chance to ping all available datacenters to figure out which ones are the best ones to connect to. This problem really doesn’t come up in matchmaking games because the search queue has to get the ping test before it starts to put you in a match. Waiting 30 seconds before clicking Training Range from the time the game first loads often avoids this issue.

[MysteryGuest-21996]

Luckily this high delay was a one time issue

edit:
My lag problem, seems having to do with my “Nvidia fast-sync” setting, games are much better when I switch this from “ultra” to “Use the 3D application setting”.

[Outside-11127]

@Kaedi-11739

In your case, Outside, I believe you mentioned your skill tier is in Bronze, which is a very low populated skill tier.

i see your point here.

But i’m bronze in some gamemodes/accounts and not bronze in others.
In casual modes i have better success with ord1.
In comp during the hours i play they ship to lax1.
it def seems like a lowpop issue. they’re just routing every1 to lax1 datacentre bcuz it’s not worth keeping ord1 spunup for 30 ppl or w/e.

@Kaedi-11739

jumped into the training range.

there is noticeably more lag in the training range, despite it saying ord1.
i’ve never understood that. same server group, but 20ms more and what feels like extremely sluggish packets with loss etc. like is it just really poopy servers or do they fake label the hosting/lag now, citing and showing only the last hop (ord1) from some kind of reroute to lax1.

either way it doesn’t feel clean.
i’ve been reported (falsely) for throwing games bcuz i’m on the wrong server, dealing with 180ms lag instead of 42ms. ofc bronze gameplay is going to look like throwing when they lag us out across 1/2 the continent.