Players from the Oceanic region should be able to choose what servers we would like to play on. At this point in time I and many others are locked to “auto-select” which we give us SA+NA servers at best, which is not ideal as it will put you in a NA server every single game ranging from 200ping at best to someone in my case that is permanently locked at 350 ping. Then sometimes you will be forced into any server in the world and do not have the option to choose between any of them, which can be unplayable, forcing me to drop the game until it resets again.
People I have spoken too in matches either agree or present the idea that they do not want to que for 5 minutes which I totally understand, though players in the same boat as me would rather wait a few minutes to have a playable game as our internet does not run well with this game.
The only time I can play on SA servers is by joining my friend that by sheer luck I guess has always had the option even though he lives on the furthest side of the country to SA and I live in northern Australia, and on top of that have good internet faster than his outside of warthunder.
I’m from SEA I’ve choose to play on NA server since the beginning, since I only play ground battles I’m at a disadvantage when it comes to cqc, my playstyle actually adjusted towards more passive because I find myself often running into situations where “we both shoot at the same time” but server sees the enemy shot first, very frustrating because I clearly also shoot at least on client side but server say nope, you are late. There is not much I can do but I’ve have ACE on the vehicle so it does compensate a little on the reload part.
The best option for us Oceania players would be to get an Australian server, but since they’ve locked down the SA one I doubt they’re going to give us our own one, even though we’ve been begging for one for quite a while.
Although it should be noted the US servers might better placed for ping than a SA server in Japan would be, due to the shorter distance and direct fibre connection, at least for NZ
well yeah what triggered me into posting for the first time seconds before the guy that got me, I have an aggressive playstyle and have come to accept nukes and high kill games being robbed from me because of my ping.
It is just very frustrating when the game is in a state every now and then that it is completely unplayable even though I have great internet that works well on any other game.
I get what you mean by a change in playstyle, but I do not think it is really fair just because the game chooses when and when not to give me the option to choose a server, for a week I’m playing on CIS then for the next full week it is NA, which is somewhat playable on a good day.
yeah I will admit sometimes the que for SA is unbearable, but I always assumed there would be enough of us to fill games.
But I just want us to have an option at the very least, or at least for the match maker to try a bit.
Even if we could select a preferred server and set a time limit for how long it can try to search before going to next preferred.
In the past 3 years SA server has been good to me. At certain times of the day there aren’t any games and they may as well just switch the server off (when everyone is in bed).
I don’t like adjusting between 160 ping and 240 ping. I’d prefer if all my games were SA.
There are many previous threads about this subject.