This has been an issue since OW1, theres been hundreds of threads on this. Playing on 180 ping is not enjoyable. Is this a server capacity issue or something?
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Both Australia and sg server are in the American region
How is it 180 ping?
I live farthest from Singapore on the edge of India my latency is about 95 ish to 100.
Although ofc networking quality factors will highly affect this.
Have you tried a different ISP btw?
Because Australian internet is terrible
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OCE (Australian) player here. At this point, I’d rather go back to being put into NZ (New Zealand) or SG (Singpapore) servers anytime the available playerbase in my own country gets low.
At first, I thought it was a good idea to no longer be put in SG servers with slightly higher ping, but I noticed a glaring issue with it. Which is that we REALLY lack the playerbase due to our population being much smaller. Role queue isn’t helping either with the queue times in a country that’s already lacking in player base.
Even with 5v5, I still get really long queue times when I try playing the game during odd hours. For example, I frequenlty see OW2 streamers in US and EU playing the game well into mid-night, sometimes overnight and into the morning. Doing that and getting reasonable queue time is impossible in our region. After mid-night, the queue time goes from 3 - 4 minutes to 15 - 30 minutes…in GOLD (most popular rank) while playing the most popular role (DPS/support).
So I’m afraid due to how small our population is, it might be a necessary evil for us to get put into NZ/SG servers when our own playerbase becomes too small.
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Thats wildly incorrect.
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It’s not like these games are majority Singaporean players with a couple Aussies. They’re fully Australian lobbies lol. The Aussie servers are just broken.
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Yeah, the problem with being put into SG servers back then was that it happened even during peak hours for no reason. That was my main issue I had with playing in other servers like SG/NZ.
High ping was a bit annoying, but it wasn’t a deal-breaker as long as I wasn’t being put into SG servers frequently. NZ server ping isn’t even that bad (110ms), which is very much playable even on projectile heroes. It was mainly SG servers that had a bit high’ish ping of 160ms. Which is still playable, but you start to notice a bit of delay/lag with projectile heroes.
I agree that the Aussie server can be broken at times, and takes weeks for Blizzard to do anything about it.
That’s not how latency works :Pepe:
It’s 180 ping, it’s terrible
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you are right, australian internet cables need to make a detour to papua new guinea, then to indonesia, then malaysia before circling back to singapore. Or it takes the scenic route and is routed through to perth before going to malaysia.
Compared to india, its just to malaysia then to singapore
our latency is needlessly longer than other OCE countries, also the ISP structures here in Australia is controlled by the bloody stupid NBN company
10 games tonight and 1 of them below 150 ping. Do they know they’re not actually an indie dev company?
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How do you know what server you’re on?
I’ve started getting into Sydney games again later at night.
Kinda suggests that the Australian servers are over capacity rather than empty.
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Press Ctrl+Shift+N while in-game. The server name will be in the top-left corner of your screen. SYD2 is the Australian server.
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Never really had this issue, isn’t there a setting for maximum allowed ping or is that a CS thing
They’re trying to colonize you and have gotten sick of trying through marriage alone.
Run.
They are coming.
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I play with Aussies and Singaporeans all the time, and I’m definitely in NA.
bruh…if that’s true, that’s even worse. Since that means that instead of Blizzard caring about the queue time of Aussies during non-peak hours, the only reason we are being put into SG server is because Blizzard refused to spend the money to maintain sufficient servers in Australia (Sydney)…even though the playerbase isn’t that high to begin with.
There’s no way they’re removing servers from already low population countries. This must be happening because of a bug or something.
Australian servers probably were taken over by giant spiders.
If there is low population, why have servers? It would be waste of money. Plus, it’s not like developers have standards for “player experience”, so they would be very surprised, if players consider 100+ ping “unacceptable”.
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