The thing is, 60 latency isn’t bad latency. Opening new servers would be a waste. They should just be careful not to adjust the game in such a way as to disproportionately affect people by latency.
Definitely not. I live smack dab in the middle of the country and get 30ms latency.
It probably depends on where you are relative to the backbone. I have used both major ISPs in Boise and you aren’t ever going to beat 60 ping here.
I don’t know what else to tell you. No game is designed and balanced around latency. It’s balanced around people with stable connections under reasonable circumstances.
I disagree on your request of balancing due to latency. Worse way to do game design in my opinion.
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Gotcha, I get what you’re saying.
What? Every single online game is designed to account for latency.
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Not with bad latency in mind, no it’s not. It’s balanced with stable connections under reasonable circumstances.
60-80 latency is absolutely that. That’s a pretty good connection, just not perfect.
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The thing about the flash change is it forces you to be able to hit the headshot on tracer rather then just double shotting which is the entire reason for that time. When they changed his fire rate it became possible to get 2 shots on heroes during that stun rather than going for the head.
Tell Blizzard to turn on the east cost server. Instead of only when the game is overloaded. Than I’ll get 25-30 ping.
60 - 80ms is good and reasonable. Still does not raise the concern of balancing with latency in mind. I beg to differ on what you consider high latency is or where trouble starts.
Good luck.
100-150 is not good and 200+ is where you start to have a bad experience.
Right. So, again, that’s not balancing under reasonable situations. As the majority do not have 100, and especially 200, ms. So again, you’re asking for balancing for a unreasonable situation which is a “Get better internet” or talk to your ISP thing. Not a Blizzard thing, besides opening up more servers.
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I hit Masters with Junkrat(who is affected the most by high latency) when I still consistently played at 80-90 latency
I definitely don’t feel for OP
I love that you mention talk to your isp like that has ever helped anyone ever in the entire history of humanity.
In the US at least, a lot of internet companies are monopolies in their city or competitors have seriously higher prices. That’s not so simple a fix.
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I’ve had both the available providers in Boise. It’s not getting better than 60, which Covid pushed up to 80.
Idk how it works on PC, but 60 ping is barely any delay…
Yeah my latency doesn’t hurt much except for reacting to very short stuns.
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lol mccree stun is busted and takes no skill to use. McCree is the most strongest hero in the game and he’s not even a difficult hero. He’s one of the easiest in the game. He’s been meta for far too long and needs a bigger nerf to his CC and his output damage
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