Recently, right before the start of Season 16, I noticed my ping jumped up to 375 ms. No major fluctuations, I’m still connecting to the right region (aus), and other games and websites I use aren’t affected by connection issues, just Overwatch itself. Even when I’m the only one home and nothing else is using the internet I get this high ping. What’s confusing me the most is that it’s a consistent ping, it doesn’t fluctuate or drop or get higher, it just sits at about 375.
Really unsure how to tackle this problem since all the other threads I found regarding high ping mention fluctuations of about 20 ms, where again mine doesn’t fluctuate at all.
EDIT: Playing on Steam, in case that matters.
2 Likes
Having the same issue. My ping will spike to 300 and stay at this untill a game restart. My network is unstable so a spike to 300 is believable but it never stays this high for long so it remaining a solid 300 is definitely not a issue on my part.
Same issue. Says I’m on Syd2, but ping is 304ms.
Seems like the issue has just, gone away now? I was able to play perfectly fine today. I’ll post another reply if the issue comes back.
You can press Ctrl+Shift+N while in match and read the first top left letter code. It’ll show you what region cluster you’re connected to. Then press Ctrl+Shift+N again to hide network debug ui. There’s no official page for all region codes, but you can just google “ORD1 overwatch” to find info about your server and where it’s located.
Overwatch 2 mostly connects you to the nearest cluster. But with big events and on season start the servers are often overcrowded and the game starts to offload the players to other regions. So, the Americans play on EU and Asia, and vice versa. This leads to 300ms ping. In 2-3 days after event most people leave and you’re back to nearest server again.
server isn’t a issue, i played with a friend he has completely normal ping no issues, i have fiber internet and i check everytime i get this and my internet has 0 issue, only happens on overwatch