Disadvantages due to location

Jabz

Jabz

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Hi all.

I don't want to come up with excuses but am I wrong by saying playing on american realms against ppl with 20-60ms vs 220ms avg is a big disadvantage? I know your gonna say there is good players put there that do well but tbh when i play on oceanic realms at peak and have 70ms its feels amazing...it sucks our full potential be witnessed but do you guys reckon it is esp flag returns and silencing.
 
Sure, we're at a disadvantage but it's nothing new. If you haven't adapted your playmaking to suit, then Welcome to Legion, Enjoy your stay!

Btw Oceanic still win, we #1
 
From experience no one cares if you’re lagging or not, I usually play at 400+ ms living in the Bahamas and when I would try to tell people I didn’t want to q because of my latency. Even ss 800+ ms on worse days. They just say you’re scared or just suck. I just stopped caring and play no matter what, at the end of the day no one can influence how you interpret fun. Best of luck!
 
MS matters, yes, but less so now with the updated network code that got introduced in Cata I believe it was. It does affect your flag returns for sure, going up against people with way better ping. Sometimes you won't even see the flag visually. This is why you have to adjust to interpretations and calculations, rather than reactionary gameplay. Try to predict more. As long as your MS is stable, it's playable. The worst is when your MS spikes up and down. Then it becomes utterly unplayable.
 
Yes, I agree with you. I have tried various (all available) ISPs for my zone, and I still get 250-1k ms almost everyday. (Plus my numerous screen freezes and dc's -- sorry anyone that plays with me). There was a time in WoD I just had to stop playing for around 9 months because I wouldn't drop down below 2k ms.
I do blame our ISPs tho, because I'm way closer to the US than many of my fellow latin americans living down south.

And it's not like I can just go to the latin american realms because we don't have our own infrastructure, servers are still on US :(

I do believe it's a disadvantage...

But then you have people like Phron that prove that it's not impossible to overcome the disadvantage and still be one of the best.

So the rest of us, mortals, have to suck it up and try harder to predict the next play, just as Bestworld said xD
 
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Hi @Jabz - I’m fairly certain we live in the same place, so I hear ya. The lag we have is the main reason most of my rl friends quit. There is only so far we could get end game with close to 300ms in arena. Makes playing melee classes more difficult.
But with 20’s, the lag isn’t as big a deal, though I would say still a sight disadvantage.
I used to hate playing arena against teams with very low latency, it was like we were taking on the Flash! :eek:
 
icehawk said:
Hi @Jabz - I’m fairly certain we live in the same place, so I hear ya. The lag we have is the main reason most of my rl friends quit. There is only so far we could get end game with close to 300ms in arena. Makes playing melee classes more difficult.
But with 20’s, the lag isn’t as big a deal, though I would say still a sight disadvantage.
I used to hate playing arena against teams with very low latency, it was like we were taking on the Flash! :eek:
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Oh yea u live in WA aye? nice its been so cold last night dayum
 
sevenohseven said:
i play on a dell laptop 6 gigs ram 1.70ghz over a 4g hotspot for internet. still wax that ass in wsg. get better
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get better...funny thing i do rekt in bgs but i just wonder how i would do with better ms
[doublepost=1525784908,1525782353][/doublepost]I also am doing what u just said at work GG
 
You really want something like 15-35 MS. Playing a melee with 70+ latency just straight up blows. "I can't reach that target. Im out of range" Blarghargh ev even tho you are on your target. Can't kick when you instinctively want to kick cuz latency

Range is not AS bad but still crap because you get randomly CC'd due to LoS and MS issues. And interrupting still sucks. But high MS has its positives its like lol just got kicked at the last millisecond gg kick god but thats because of latency


How I envy europeans and their 15-30 MS internets


then depending on the time you play it randomly decides to connect you to oceanic servers due to the queue times. And then MS spikes up to 400 cuz WoW doesnt have server filters by MS or ping limits...

tl dr: amerifat ping sucks
 
Goohdx said:
Im from cali but I play on BH which is eastern. Anyone feel bad for me?
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Actually, it appears that all timezone realms are served from Los Angeles now. If you go to realmpop and look at where the realms are listed as being hosted, all US realms say Los Angeles.

I think the timezone thing is more of an artifact from an earlier time. If that's not correct, I welcome any sourced correction that's not out of date cuz, you know... I like to know what's true, too! :)
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sevenohseven said:
i play on a dell laptop 6 gigs ram 1.70ghz over a 4g hotspot for internet. still wax that ass in wsg. get better
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The point is lag/latency. What you play on is irrelevant to that point. The 4g may or may not be relevant as it's you to the router vs. you to the Blizz server.

So, in response to your irrelevant 'get better' nonsense, I suggest you stay on point or 'get a clue' :)
 
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