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Is there any way to reduce ping for SEA and Australian players?
hengyu1995
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As usual, the lag in any North American-hosted MMO is pretty bad.
I am playing from Singapore, and I consistently get 300+ms, and while the game is largely playable, it is extremely annoying for me to be hit by a huge boss attack although my character has already visibly stepped out of the red area a split second before the attack hit. It also makes it pretty difficult for a guardian to time his blocks.
Therefore I would really like to find a way to mitigate this issue, but I have no idea where to begin. Anyone with suggestions?
I am playing from Singapore, and I consistently get 300+ms, and while the game is largely playable, it is extremely annoying for me to be hit by a huge boss attack although my character has already visibly stepped out of the red area a split second before the attack hit. It also makes it pretty difficult for a guardian to time his blocks.
Therefore I would really like to find a way to mitigate this issue, but I have no idea where to begin. Anyone with suggestions?
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That sucks... It seems like physical distance is the number one cause of horrible pings if that's also the case in Europe =/
This is an open beta. Start treating it like one.
I didn't play the game yet, but i'v heard that there is only USA servers for this game, which worries me, through some googling i found a server IP for one of the Server for D&D Neverwinter (208.95.185.41) and i got an average ping of 300-350, is this playable because from my experiences in FPS and MOBO games 300 is a bad ping. Because me and my friends are planning to start this game and we from Asia (I'm from Sri lanka they are from India )
So the question : 300-350 ping is playable?
Why no SEA or EU servers?
But don't let this discourage you. It is great game and try it yourself how it plays. And turning off on demand patching helps also.
I'm sure it's a great game, but i'm trying to convince myself that the rubber banding wouldn't destroy the experience i may get and that this game might soon gather dust in my Hard drive.
But I'll give it a go. I really hope to spend money on micro-transactions in this game. But i simply don't understand why a game like this only has servers in the US. Really hope they would consider adding more servers.
Don't think i could add anything to what you said, it is noticeable and it is VERY annoying!
Almost a year since the game is released and I would think that you guys would have considered a Server in Australia/Singapore at the very least, if it is because you don't have enough players from SEA actively playing that you considered not adding a server, well how would you expect them to continue to play if their only option was a USA server? This is purely speculation but please consider adding a server in the east side of the world.
I'm considered a scape goat, which basically means i try the games and determine if it worth playing before giving the 'green' light for my friends to start downloading (Most countries in Asia have download caps
Guess only people in North america can play this game without lags and reap the full experience of the game.
It is a real shame. I'll try to play more but honestly it's just to annoying to Warp around.
I have to agree with this. I'm from SEA and constantly getting 300+ ping all the time. I guess for PVE it's tolerable but not in PVP. Constant rubber banding makes my head hurt.
Really wish I could post new threads, maybe this is one of the reasons, because many others like me would have gone to the forums solely to make sure the server issue is noted. But had lacked the ability to create new threads would have immediately discouraged them and would have given up.
they really should address it somehow better lag compensation or something like that, but atm they didnt, what they did was make it worse, after they changed dodges and blocks to server side, my powers been lagging and must be pressed several times to work properly, specially on my cw.
I agree with that. If somehow PWE/Cryptic is unable to install servers for players in the east then they SHOULD look into alternatives like this.
Extremely disappointing. I would love to play this game but a year after it's release and not even a EU server, most gaming companies i know would have at least conjured a EU server in that time-frame . I have my hopes for PWE/Cryptic but I'v never played their games (besides D&D neverwinter of course) or experienced their support so i can't be confident that a EU/SEA server would ever exist and for all i know they could just be focused on US but i really hope that isn't the case. If it's a company like Valve which i know then i would be entirely confident that they will bring more servers online, i guess i have to give PWE/Cryptic a chance.
But a statement wouldn't hurt, even if its to say "We have not currently made any decisions on server in SEA/Aus because of etc etc etc, but we would implement one in the near future"
It would stop me from checking the forums every now and then.
BUMP!
I have to agree.
It is very noticable and I hope this will get some attention from the developers.
Cryptic, you are losing out on the Asian market.
Well I wouldn't know. Don't know how Cryptic dev would respond, if they are the types that would sweep things like these under the carpet then that would be a crying shame.
I was trying to be optimistic.
But yea your post does make sense, a year after its release and no didn't included addition servers, why the **** would they include it now. It's obvious their primary focus IS the US.
I'm such an idiot.
There are launcher proxies for EU and NA players. However, there is still only the one live shard for any given Cryptic game.
I will also remind the players that targeting posts or threads to the devs is a violation of rule 3.14. Posts are not obligated to have a staff or dev response, and such demands are neither constructive nor conducive to discussion.
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That's not correct. Perfect World is based in China. However, PWE (the publisher of Neverwinter) is a North American subsidiary that is based in California.
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I'm from SG too.
Lag is terrible in Protector's enclave, depending on when you are playing
Otherwise, it is pretty decent overall...
If you are playing at the same time as he majority of the people, your mileage will vary....
300MS ping times is good enough from Sg to an American server.
Feel free to add me ingame but i think it also depends on the routing of your ISP ( which ISP are you using ).
Well, could they at least create a proxy for Asia like what we have right now for EU and NA?
Sorry, new to this forum.
I play in Australia, 300-350 ping is the norm. Some days there will be huge lag spikes also, especially when zoning. This is usually exacerbated during DD hour or popular events like Call to Arms skirmish.
In terms of playing with ping, if the ping is constant PvE is manageable. I main a DC and still do fine the majority of the time, but you have to play partly in the future and anticipate what will happen. If you have spiky ping, where all of a sudden you lose a lot of packets then it gets very frustrating. Generally by the time you see red there's only a very small window to get out of it, so it's not as forgiving. I recommend playing a ranged class like DC/CW or archer HR. Playing melee classes can be very difficult, not just because of the rubber banding (threatening rush is a prime culprit) but because many bosses have a point blank AoE that can 1 shot you and with lag those are very unforgiving. Your tab mechanic will frequently fail on you when need also (block/unstoppable). My GF/GWF and HR has a lot of problems playing to their full potentials because of these issues. HR particularly is very tricky because of the incentive to switch modes..if you don't time things well you'll be a splat later.
In terms of PvP at mid to high level it can be absolutely frustrating. Some matches are ok but some you pretty much get hit before you see it. This means prone chains are absolutely devastating because they have already such a narrow window for dodging and countering. Other players will just think you're standing still being stupid. In Gauntlgrym it is not unusual for my comp to freeze for 2-3 seconds every 20s or so which is more than enough for you to die or be caught in a very bad place.
Overall it hasn't stopped me playing and enjoying the game, although there is always an extra element of frustration, and there are just days where the lag is so bad I can't play, just try to take it as well as you can and if things go south you can always blame it on 'the lag' and not feel too bad
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TR: I started as executioner, have problems with staying perma stealth because of the unforgiving ping. Also I haven't got well to moving ahead while using duellist's flurry because I keep getting rubberbanded. A TR can stand in red circles by timing ITC and duellists flurry immunity but sometimes my ITC fails to activate on time. Overall not a bad class to play with ~300 ping.
DC: This will probably make you good at predicting incoming damage. Sometimes I would see people about to die and when I activate Divine Armor, he is already dead. I stacked a ton of defense just to be safe here (moving some of them to HP now.)
HR: The class I find hardest to play with my latency. I always have to use two shifts just to dodge even the smallest aoes and even then, I will occasionally get pulled back. Aiming rain of arrows is quite difficult. In pvp, I can never dodge attacks.