LIMIT PING option PLEASE!

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Please implement LIMIT PING option that stops you from being sent to servers on other side of world when queuing for a game as long as you set the limit low enough.

I’ll gladly wait longer for a game that doesn’t have people teleporting around randomly every 20 seconds. I wish I were kidding.

I’m in Australia.

Archives is currently 70% unplayable for me due to a ridiculous amount of ping spikes and ping yoyo-ing that constantly changes from 150-ish up to 1000 and back again in a matter of seconds.

If I get sent to an American server it’s a flat 200-300 ping that stays steady.

Oceania servers - everything ok. My aimaccuracy goes up by more than 10%.

When I get a server from anywhere else however…(predominantly South Asian ones kick my beehind very hard).

Due to the available free time/ hours I tend to play overwatch during, avoiding bad servers is more or less impossible. Please please give me more control.

While we at it, looking for group should be displayed and updated in the chat tab instead of being tucked and hidden away so I can actually find people in my region to group up with so I don’t’ get sent to hell.

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Are you sure the ping spikes are region related? Because I’ve been getting random bad ping even in my region lately.

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I find it interesting that I can play Fortnite with around 90-100 ping. But when I switch to play Overwatch, my ping is like 300 with spikes up to 800-1000. I won’t deny my internet is pretty bad, but Overwatch is unplayable for long portions of the day while Fortnite isn’t

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I’ve had a lot of people I know report more crashes since the archives event dropped, which for me just means from normal bad to worse.

I’ve had entire teams d/c from the same game for no reason during archive game modes.

As for the region thing, my ping seems to get a lot better in the evening (which is when everyone else near me comes online). Before corona cancelled my uni face to face lectures & tutorials, I had classes scheduled at like 7-9pm at night on some days, so this semester has been hell on game playability unless I go customs (where servers closer to you have green bars).

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Don’t remind me pls… My uni audition got cancelled bc of that sh#t.

In any case, I’ve seen improvement lately, have you?