Topic - how to lower my ping? It’s constantly like 400 in the lobby, but like 192 or so in game. I also play on US East, why is it so high, any tips?
This is not an easy thing to answer, there can be a lots of reasons to why this is happening.
Now if you’re not using an old computer the most likely scenario is the servers. Starcraft 2 uses a hybrid client-server model in which all of the game data is sent to the server, which then disseminates it to the clients. Even though the game server is run by Blizzard the server doesn’t need to perform any calculations, it just passes it along. Warcraft 3 however still uses old fashioned P2P which means that when another player lag (which can be for countless reasons) you will lag as well affecting both players ping.
If you live in USEast IRL, your ping should be good ingame, as long as your ISP is decent.
Custom games are crossrealm, in the lobby, your ping is compared to the host I believe, otherwise, custom games are hosted on cloud servers based on the host’s location. If the host lives in asia… you’ll be playing on asia servers, which should give you petty bad latency.
It’s all the god damn foreigners who come to our servers and ruin our games. I imagine the majority of players still playing classic games like this are people in crappy asian countries and americans in crappy rural areas with old computers and garbage internet connections.
Your ability to find a good game is going to be difficult. Hopefully it will get better once reforged launches and it becomes a bit mainstream again.
Hello there Donald, I didn’t know you played warcraft 3. Maybe a giant wall will fix the problem? And make the Mexicans pay for it?
To be completely fair though, yes the reduced number of players does encourage people to cross realms which does affect the game ping. The way you phrase yourself is unnecessarily offensive and vulgar though nor accurate as not just Americans and Asians cross realms for a bigger playerbase.
Americans play on american servers, only foreigners come to our servers, we don’t go to their servers.
Game needs region and ping lock to force them out.
Calm down there GOP.
Isn’t it like. Warcraft 3 is bigger in Europe and Asia than it is in the west?
I believe Malaysia is connected to Americas server for some reason, but we have our server I believed in most blizzard games in America which is 5ms for me, even I play Asia it only connects to KR/JP which cost me 70ms so yeah… sorry for necro this post was wondering why I lag so much