I play with my UK friend. He plays DPS and I play support. I don’t need low ping to heal, but he needs low ping to be able to hit shots.
We keep getting put on US servers. Why is there no way to specify what region you want to play on? Marvel Rivals had this functionality from release.
Install battle net
Select the region to Europe when starting the game via battle net
Test and report back if that helps your case.
Thats how i play with my friends.
Also, the overall weight of the lobby also affects the server region selection.
If 1 Indian 1 European play == Singapore server or middle east server
If 1 Indian 2 European == European server each single time
It just does its best to keep “most” people happy in a group. So make another friend and play in a trio.
Also try my suggestion about region selection (that adds to your weight but doesn’t guarantee it tho).
Hope the best for you.
PS: Please ignore my typos I am barely awake
Mina overwatch server selector.
Try it you can change the region there.
It works i can play on us servers with 180 ping.
Conveniently you can block other regions.
Don’t try it on ranked tho.
100% backed. need opt-out of foreign regions. but they will still lie. there is a “bug” atm that shows u connected to your normal server, but it is just a placeholder/proxy to wherever they are currently hosting the 10 ppl who still play. it’s so obvious, but you can use tools to confirm. will say like ord1 40ms but feel like 100ms las1.
Unfortunately we’re playing on Xbox . I will try that for when we play quick play together since I play that on PC, but for comp we both have to be on Xbox due to the platform restrictions (he doesn’t have a PC.)
IIRC Overwatch used to let you do this, too, but then they changed to the current system because… well, I’m not sure, to be honest. :\
Because it became a console game and console rarely lets you select a region.
Oh, thats unfortunate - i dont think you can try that method there.
Keep me posted, I would like to know if it works for others as well.
Such is the tradeoff I guess when living too far.
Marvel Rivals had it on launch. Blizzard is just lazy