With the patch that changed Ping to Latency, was it ever mentioned that there’d be consequences with it showing latency as opposed to ping? Is the 20-30ms difference just informational or does it affect gameplay in the regard that it’s higher?
It will always be higher, as it’s a more accurate representation of the actual time it will take to see server responses in-game.
Official post with more detail:
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Latency is distance related. So let’s say your in China, playing someone from America. There will be a large delay in what happens onscreen because the actions take a long time to send over the network due to the long distance of travel.
Ping is basically how good your internet is by itself. If you have a bad ping, or high ping, expect stuttering movement, and crappy gameplay overall.
That’s technically the ‘gist’ of it all. I probably made some errors, so feel free to correct me.
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Ping accounts for distance as well. There are technical differences in how these metrics are calculated, but the purpose is the same: They measure the travel time for data sent between your client and the server.
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