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I'm not sure if this is even the right place to post this, but I have to ask nonetheless.

Is there a bug with the servers (ever since beta 3) that they randomly give 1 player a terrible ping (usually 100-140, even tho it's in a neighbouring country)?

Because lately we've noticed this with lots of players, and it's usually one of the last players to join the servers it happens for. Heck, we even had one player from Netherlands get 140 ping on -one- of our servers, but had 40 ping on the others. The funny thing is all our servers are hosted on the same box, so the ping should be the same on all of them.

And frequently we notice the same thing happen on german/french servers for us nordic people. Or for others on other servers for that matter.

And this seemed to start with (or become frequent) after beta 3 release. It would be nice if you would look into this, because right now it's so much server-hopping just to play PCWs between players, because it's always one guy having a shit ping when he shouldn't, and the others from the same country have regular ping.

If the servers are fine and not the cause of this, then it must mean that someone broke parts of the german internet so some routing through germany is awfully messed up.

had this twice yesterday!

My teammates too on other occasions.

I play 3rounds with ping 50 and then it gets 150

I thought reconnecting might solve the problems. So I reconnect and got ping 50. The next round it was 150 again.

The ping increases with +- 100 and makes the game unplayable!
HUGE BUG!!

Actually, I have to agree there's something to it...

Just yesterday I couldn't play pcw on a French server because I had a constant ping of around 170. My friend who lives like 500 metres away, was there and played comfortably with a ping of 80. We both have the same ISP, and our routing is identical even for the most part of our city, not to speak of everything beyond.

Could you please be a bit more specific? This would help to pinpoint the issue.

Is it on any server? Or which servers did you connect to especially?
Was it only on a special game mode, or on all modes (if you tried different)?

How many players were connected at the same time?
Was there a fluctuation (players connecting and disconnecting) while you were playing on those servers?

TMarc wrote:Could you please be a bit more specific? This would help to pinpoint the issue.

Is it on any server? Or which servers did you connect to especially?
Was it only on a special game mode, or on all modes (if you tried different)?

How many players were connected at the same time?
Was there a fluctuation (players connecting and disconnecting) while you were playing on those servers?

This is for Elite (haven't really played any other modes except for the occasional TimeAttack and instagibDM), and it happens randomly to one player nomatter when he connects to it (meaning it happens for that player when he connects, nomatter how many players are previously on the server or how many joins after. But it is Elite, so we're talking about a max of 6 players).

And it's always just one player who gets this randomly high ping, for everyone else it's fine.

To be even more specific, I cannot recall this happening on Elite servers running beta 3, but then again, I don't play much beta 3 so I can't say for sure this is purely related to servers running Elite Beta 2.

And this seems to happen on many (if not all, sooner or later) Elite servers, and it's purely random and something that happens every now and then.

A danish player just reported having 100+ ms to all bazinga servers but one. On that one he had 20-40. Since all server run on same connection on same wm(in sweden) this should really indicate that something is very wrong in the server.