Since a month i am experiecing ultra lags and really high pings (200-500) on european servers in Warcraft 3 Reforged. Sometimes it’s better, sometimes it’s worse, but most of the time the game is just not playable at all. First i thought it might be really Blizzard servers fault, but i am meeting a lot of players who dont complain about any lag. I checked the traffic and there’s certainly a problem in AMS-IX that my ISP uses to connect to battle.net eu servers.
Are u guys also experiecing mega lags almost all the time betweem 10 am and midnight? I am asking european players. It’s basically 14 hours where i cant play a game. I contacted my ISP but they said that its not their problem and i should contact Blizzard. I saw some thread where similar problem is stated and Blizzard told the guy to contact his ISP. All this desync, bugs and now lags make this game totally unplayable.
I experience lag as well, day and night. Although I don’t know what to think anymore. Desyncs, bugs, extreme lag, <30 fps most of the time, spikes… The list goes on and on, and all Blizzard employees does is give us copy-paste answers like “Heya :- ) Please contact your internet provider if you experience any sort of lag. We can’t help you!” What a joke. It’s almost kafkaesque.
What’s ur ISP and where are u from? I am from Poland, i got T-mobile FTTH connection. Weird thing is that like 98% players i meet, they dont experience any sort of lag. I feel so sad and hopeless. I checked the traffic to eu.battle.net and Warcraft 3 servers using WINmtr diagnostic tool and there’s 3-8% packetloss, caused by Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) which is used by my ISP to connect to battle.net. Battle.net EU servers are in Netherlands i think. There’s no lag in the night, it just happens in day time.
Maybe ur ISP uses AMS-IX as a transit to battle.net servers too. AMS-IX isnt the problem itself, but the problem is between interconnection terminals.
Be aware that lag could be expected to be worse for the next few weeks or months as more people are staying at home and hitting the internet and game servers rather than working due to the current world wide crisis.
Be aware that lag could be expected to be worse for the next few weeks or months as more people are staying at home and hitting the internet and game servers rather than working due to the current world wide crisis.
Is that a freakin joke?..jesus how hard you whiteknight everything in this forums…wtf.
@OP: no, its not my ISP. Its only in Reforged and no other game and only when i get matched with people named like 已退款
Also its the same on other ISP where i have access too.
Also its all over reddit, these forums, my friendlist, the streamers and everyone still playing this game.
Its freakin obvious its caused by the dumb decision to enable globalmatchmaking in versus. When you get matched vs asians it puts you on some asian servers, thats why.
No it is not a joke. Steam recently hit a new concurrent user record due to this very reason. https://twitter.com/SteamDB/status/1239180882826715136
How well game companies can manage the increased traffic as well as how regional ISPs cope is often unclear. Some with good infrastructure will not be affected. Others with lesser infrastructure will be affected.
Topic creator has not stated that they are playing melee. Since most people play Warcraft III for custom games one would generally assume that the experience was being observed when playing custom games. Custom games do use regional servers for now, much to the complaint of many who grew to rely on global ones.
If this is not the case then the topic creator should mention what mode is being used.
Yes, i am playing custom games only and hosting all my games. I dont play melee right now at all. I think it might be my ISP issue, because not only Reforged lags, but also there’s packetloss to many servers when the traffic goes through AMS-IX. Also as i said, the vast majority of players dont complain about lag in my games, so i suppose that servers are not that bad. Other big ISP’s in my country like UPC, Orange dont have any problems to battle.net servers, ping is just fine and packetloss is 0% at any time, while my ISP has 3-8% packetloss and unstable ping all day to Blizzard servers.
Because the reforged has a funny match making system, I’m in Africa, and I can play even with South Korean players, while I have mega lags, but they have no lags, but when I played with EU players, I have good ping. It seems the blizzard wants all the players worldwide to play together, if they are too far, the server simply chooses a middle server to accomodate everyone, but if it’s the case, why do we have EU, US, ASIA server at all, that’s stupid( how about to simply put one server)?
I get the “normal” lags where it’s 300-400 ping at night only. It’s because the Europeans are up while about that time, the US/Korean players are asleep. Usually through the day I go on a constant winning spree absorbing player’s MMR, but that’s because I play vs Koreans and US during the day which is only 180-200 ping. I don’t play Reforged at night anymore unless I’m desperate, so I just play Heroes of the Storm.
I daydream what it’s like to play with 100 ping or below, hell, even 20 ping sounds like a fable to me.
It’s not about the server location. I was getting lags on eu servers and i am from eu. Now it’s little better than 2 weeks ago. Lag is not completely gone but game is playable now at day time.