Please make CMM find matches with acceptable ping

(hurgya) #1

I am happy, match making was released, and all that fancy UI updates look awesome.
I have to admit, though, I have been afraid, since ranked MM put me on servers with ~80 ms latency.
Unfortunately my fears became reality. There’s no region specification (plain EU), and no optimizing ping for a match.
So there’s quite a big chance, that a Russian (or someone from middle Europe like me) will play on a server, which is in freakin’ London with a f*cking ping of 150. I can only imagine what it’s like to be put on a server across the whole US…

What’s the point of matching you with players of the same skill range, if you simply cannot reach your full potential due to ridiculous ping?

So please, I beg for some option to rule out servers across my whole continent. I don’t mind waiting much more for a match in which enemies don’t insta-kill me with smg-s or move long meters within a fraction of a second.

(ImSploosh) #2

I thought they would have split up each region into smaller sections and allowed you to search for that section, like U.S. East/West or EU East/West. It seemed like they were going to because recently, in the server browser, they started showing the location of the servers. Sadly, this did not become a reality and coupled with the other issues of CMM, I might not be playing this game for much longer unless changes are made and things are fixed.

Anything over 80 is pretty awful to play on for the most part. Over 100 is essentially unplayable most of the time. 120+ is definitely unplayable. I remember when it used to be fine playing with a high ping, but something changed and now even a ping that is a little high is terrible!

Anyways, I can’t play on like half the U.S. West servers because of this. Considering there’s a penalty for leaving often, CMM isn’t going to work out.

(watsyurdeal) #3

I figured this would come up, but it is what is. Hopefully we get more dallas servers.

(ImSploosh) #4

@watsyurdeal said:
I figured this would come up, but it is what is. Hopefully we get more dallas servers.

That would be nice. I’d much rather have U.S. Central servers to be the main focus so at least people in the East/West will both have reasonable pings.

(ThunderZsolt) #5

There are sub-regions already, the servers are named like EU-EAST (Moscow) and EU-CENT (Stockholm)

However, the servers located in Germany (Frankfurt, namely) are down for some reason - I had 40-ish ping on those, on Stockholm servers I have 70+, and 120+ on russian servers.

BTW the ping limit is removed from the server browser as well, dunno what was wrong with it, maybe it didn’t fit the aesthetics of the new UI. A region filter would be an awesome substitution, and it wouldn’t be hard to implement, so SD plz, can I haz it? ^.^

I guess our only options are either get used to the higher latency or whine on the forums for now B)

(blufflord) #6

So is CMM not putting us into specific region servers? I assumed the whole point dedicated servers like EU west, east and central were introduced for CMM.

(hurgya) #7

@blufflord said:
So is CMM not putting us into specific region servers? I assumed the whole point dedicated servers like EU west, east and central were introduced for CMM.

It’s not, apparently. Or my ping just went to 130 suddenly (from 40-50) on the Frankfurt servers

(emjot) #8

Netcode of this UE3 product is very good balanced and optimized.
Looking back on Id Tech 3 and it’s netcode (Q, Wolfenstein ET, Jedi Academy) it would be IMPOSSIBLE to play on servers with ping 80+. Here, 80 ping is acceptable, above 100 makes game freezing sometimes but till 120 yet playable.

We will get rental servers soon, I hoped for dedicated servers so I could buy some servers and set them up in 2-3 locations in EU, but better this than nothing.

While they removed filtering by ping, you can check location you are interested and then sort. Always something.

About CMM and high ping - it’s very frustrating, and makes people leave matches at start. I think community is big enough to make CMM work with ping limit.