[Main Thread] High Ping Australia - Oct 11th

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None of that matters for NZ, look how long the Cable from NZ to Singapore is: https:// www.submarinecablemap .com/country/new-zealand

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You can also see how someone in Australia not near one of the submarine cable landing points is going to have terrible latency as well.

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just want to add that this issue has been happening to me for the entire week, constantly been put in SEA servers.

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I would offer in my experience 99.99% of my games in Overwatch 1 was with 15ping and now in Overwatch 2 its 75% of my games are with 150ping. Pretty sure me and everyone else here or their ISP’s have not changed anything in the last 2 weeks to cause this issue. Logically the fault lies with Blizzard does it not? Far more likely that Blizzard has cheaped out on server bandwidth rather than issues with undersea cables or Telstra just so happening as Overwatch 2 launched. I have no issues with any other game or downloads on my 1000mbs connection.

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I’m aware that distance creates additional latency.

And fair points BengbiForce.

Again, I’m on all the players’ side here. I’m not trying to blame the ISPs and routing. My responses were intended to suggest that those things could be the cause because they have been many times in the past. But with everyone so upset about this issue, any suggestion that isn’t an instant solution is taken too seriously or offensively. I’m trying to get answers on this, but I’m incredibly limited in who and what info I have access to.

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Having the same issue here from Brisbane. I thought I was just going crazy but clearly all of us in Australia are having the same issue. In 5 years I never had this problem playing Overwatch 1; I would get 30ms every single game.

The issue feels random and unpredictable. Some games you’ll get 40ms or less, others you’re stuck with 130-160ms. With the latter the game is almost unplayable in comp especially if queuing for DPS where you’re attempting to play characters like Hanzo, Soldier etc. In quickplay I just leave the game and cue for another one, but of course in comp we can’t do that.

Can we please get an acknowledgement that this is a known issue by Blizzard so that we can get a fix soon?

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Don’t mind me, just adding to the noise after getting forwarded to this thread by Blizzard support. I’ll be back whenever I get angry about the ~130 ping until it’s fixed, or at least until a Blizzard official acknowledges the problem.

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This is simply an OW2 issue on Blizzards side. My friends all around Australia are getting it, and it was NEVER an issue in the 6 years we played Overwatch 1. This is making the game kinda unplayable, and especially unacceptable in competitive.

We are getting SEA servers with entirely Australians on both sides. It is an Australia wide issue; across every single ISP, router, internet type etc. Blizzard need to be the ones to acknowledge this and sort this out.

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I understand what you mean but, its has been an issue for a week without any acknowledgement of the issue from actual blizzard which is what pisses people off the most.
Basically: Playing from Australia? Sucks to be you…

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I’ve now come to the conclusion that its a lucky dip and entirely in the hands of Blizzard.

The attempt of shifting the blame to every single ISP in Australia having periodic routing issues is a flat lie and scapegoat for an organisation too lazy to acknowledge the issue let alone resolve the issue.

Even a simple, “Yep, we are experiencing resource issues in our OCE region. We are working towards a solution by making more resources available we hope to have this fixed over the course of the next week” would suffice and keep the peace.

But no, lets take the easy out and blame someone else. Absolute pisstake.

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I have found that when I play during peak Australia times I almost always get GSG, but when I am playing later at night (Perth time) when most of the Eastern states players are sleeping I always get the SYD server. I think the SYD server needs more capacity or more servers.

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Same issue. Wouldn’t be a problem if they simply let us choose our own servers.

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Will also add getting same issue here; Perth Origin. sucks trying to shoot bloody ahead of targets on hitscan ----- also holding off on doing any comp until we see some stable ping

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max ping selector perhaps? like cs?
i would much rather wait longer to play than play on 160+ ping servers

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Has anyone got a game on syd1 since overwatch 2 came out?

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Agreed, we need to work together to get blizzard to acknowledge the issue at hand.

We should start by providing the information available to all of us so we have data to back up our claims.

Everyone here should be providing their WinMTR data as requested by Nicole.

Nicole can then relay this information back to Blizzard to request an investigation into the issue.
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| WinMTR statistics |

Host - % Sent Recv Best Avrg Wrst Last
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loop159196960.bng2.nextdc-s1.syd.aussiebb.net3 - 0 1469 1469 1 4 61 3
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119-18-32-193.cust.aussiebb.net3 - 0 1469 1469 1 6 111 2
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pls blizzard no more gsg1 I beg u, take me back to syd

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Yep currently in Sydney but getting connected to singapore servers every 1 in 2 games, heaps of people having same problem.

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| WinMTR statistics |

Host - % Sent Recv Best Avrg Wrst Last
RT-AX56U-ADD0 - 0 525 525 0 0 13 0
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10.5.135.1 - 0 525 525 31 101 342 107
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I’ve also been having the problem, along with literally every Australian player I know. It’s very clearly a Blizzard issue unless they’re seriously going to claim that all the Australian ISPs just coincidentally changed all their routing the day OW2 came out. Never had any issues with OW1. Basically in half our games we’re being put into the gsg1 Singapore server instead of the Sydney servers we should be on. I did a a WinMTR test to the Sydney server however the forum isn’t letting me post it due to it containing links or something.

Would really like to see the Blizzard devs acknowledge this issue instead of just ignoring the entire Australian playerbase and giving us the middle finger.

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