Ever since they introduced The Global server selection, I’ve been feeling down about playing this game. I see absolutely no reason why after all the years that have passed that we still don’t have this as an option for the players.
Valorant has this system set in place where you can choose the server and it shows your ping on each one.
To see the server you’re in, you press CTRL+SHIFT+N And it will give a code like “AMS1” based on region.
Essentially, I want to connect to Middle East servers or the France servers since those give me the best ping possible. The game deafults me to AMS1 (which is Netherlands)
There absolutely needs to be the option to choose atleast between 2 EU servers. I really want a blizzard Developer to see this post, or atleast I’d like some discussion around it as to why they haven’t done this for the game yet. I just fail to understand how there would be ANY downside to implementing a server selection feature within the game.
What do you guys think? Is there a downside to adding this feature in the game? Especially considering its been YEARS.
Thank you - I’m hoping to have some discussion around this since it seems very important.
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In the past, did they ever let users choose specific datacenters to connect to? I honestly can’t remember much about videogames past a few months.
Just download Overwatch Server Selector and you can stop it connecting to the servers you don’t want.
I use it to play on NA servers and you don’t need to use a VPN.
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Yeah I’m aware of that but the fact is the average player shouldn’t need to go through the hassle of using an addon just to be able to select a server which IMO is the most basic thing in any multiplayer game ever.
In OW1, I select Europe in the battlenet - I connect to EU. Now its mixing randomly between EU and Middle East. I just want to connect to one every single time - Either the french servers or the ME servers (AMS1 I have 30 higher ping than the french server)
I get there’s an addon for it and a whole other solution - but the developers need to implement this feature in the game by deafult. It shouldn’t have to be the community finding the solution. We also need to take into consideration that this game is on console aswell - and on console, you can’t use the Overwatch server selector addon. It should just be in the game.
To be honest, I just want the REASON behind why they can’t do it. I want atleast a developer behind the OW team to simply say why they can’t do this. There’s no way that this isn’t in the game by now unless they have a very good reason. I just don’t understand why and I’d really like to - been wanting to know for years.
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