I fly ASB with 144-180 ping quite regularly myself. Beggars can’t be choosers.
It works just fine.
My standard ping is ~80-100. Very rarely 60.
WT is one of those games that works well enough with high ping at the cost of mismatch client-server shenanigans that sometimes makes the low ping player pay the price aswell (ghost shells etc)
I have played the game with 10 to 200, usually I am at 40~45.
It all depends on the game, with tanks battles affected more.
I have actually noticed that 100 to 140 against Asian players (assuming they have 200+ ) on EU servers is eliminating ghost shells and game goofiness while keeping the faster reaction advance.
I remember an experiment I did like a year ago.
Tried some games with ping 280 and as long I was moving shots were passing throught or bounced away.
Guess what tanks were more benefited, lol
300 ping is fairly good, I live in New Zealand, and am forced to use US or EU servers, I used to get 300 ping before using Ethernet and its honestly fine. The biggest issue would be ghost shells were much more common
Well first off that Comment you replied to of mine is already over an entire year ago and secondly…what exactly is the issue with my response? Maybe stop reading in an aggressive tone
Alright bro, chill. The guy asked a valid question, telling him he has “brainrot” and is on “serious copium” doesn’t sound very friendly, doesn’t even sound neutral. I think you went off on him for no reason. Was it really necessary?
While I understand why it is normal for NZ and you learn to compensate if you play with lower your will understand why it is high.
Why not using SA servers?
when i get bad ping my game start desyncs i never had advantage i was basically free kill from my experience when hamster dies.
210-250ms ping in this game is fine. Not bad ping. Maybe if this was counter strike. I play US server with 210ping all the time, rather than having 100 ping on SA server.
Main thing is to have a good routing to the server. So no packet loss. And then it’s important to have a stable ping, for any so-called ‘compensation’. And to answer your question, unlike Australia, most of New Zealand’s ISPs lack quality routing to Japan. US is better. Saying that, his ISP seems rubbish if he is getting 300 ping from NZ to USA. Something is wrong there. That’s higher than my ping from Australia to Europe (although re-reading his comment he said he used to get 300, so who knows).
yea stable ping is more important than lower ping, sometimes if I use mobile data going from 60 to 80 is greating lag spikes and also desync due to increasing PL.
Why not SA with 100? In EU we can’t play SA but it seems the opposite does not apply?
Better community on US server. Better aligned with my sleeping patterns. And I often squad with European players, so the US server is a good middle ground. So I just set it US server 24/7 now. But yeah, for me (near Melbourne, Australia) - 210 ping to USA, 110-120 to SA, 280 to Euro. It has improved drastically with better international routing in last 5 years, credit to my ISP and who they use for international routing. A quality ISP is worth the extra $$$.
Man, I guess you might not live in a rural area for that bit about ping being better than the kiwi…
I can’t complain anymore (yay starlink late last year) but for ten plus years I was on various levels of high ping with the lowest ever being 300 ping & the highest 700 ping, I really don’t miss those days.
Those days on 700 ping were nasty but it did give the edge of bouncing around like a fruitcake when defensive flying & not being sent into the ground by the server.
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Launtel FTTP 1000/400. I’m just outside Melbourne. ISP matters in both Australia and New Zealand a lot due to our reliance on international routing. My ping dropped 30 just going from Superloop to Launtel. Key is to go with an ISP that uses GSL for backhaul and international routing (AussieBB, Launtel, Leaptel, Neptune, etc). Oh, and then my ping dropped even futher when I moved from Tassie to Victoria, lol, but that’s another story.
We’ve made quite a lot of progress since moving to FTTP and ISPs putting more effort into international routing. I look at some old WoT screenshots from 2010 (aka ADSL2+ days) and I was running 300-360:
I actually had a moment back in 2021 when my ping shot up 20 or so. I extracted a game server ip and did tracerts on it, sent an email to Launtel support and they fixed it all up right away. I guess their whole 'internet for gamers’ stuff is not just talk.
Also NZ, SA servers get similar ping to US servers. Almost identical for me at least.
Its because routing is worse to SA server, NZ has a direct undersea cable to the west coast US - terminates in san francisco IIRC. Whereas to get to SA server theres multiple hops going around australia and up through so even though distance is shorter, the hops add delay so it results in similar ping for both.
This isnt just true for WT, many games with servers in say Singapore get similar ping for NZ as west coast US servers.
I used to have both US and SA servers selected, but they changed it so you can only get the SA server if you do auto select server for some stupid reason, and when Autoselect is on I occasionally get shoved onto EU servers which means 350ish ping. (Or CIS which is 400), so I just set it to US only these days.
Aus players will prob get better ping to SA servers for the same reason, just in the other direction though - closer and better routing to SA while they have to hop through NZ to get to US servers.
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I’m also in NZ, and 200-210 is normal for me since I started playing WT almost exactly 10 yrs ago.
I consider 300 to be high, and 197 is about the lowest I ever get.
Before using Ethernet?? Not sure what that means - most of NZ is on the fibre optic backbone now and has been for a few years, so an extra 100 ping (over mine here in Wellington) sounds like you are a bit rural??
Probably on wifi instead is what they mean i assume
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Loading times and instability
I used to use wifi but since getting a gaming pc I’ve been using a wired connection. I’m just across the straight in Marlborough, I usually get about 140/150 ping on SA and about 190 - 260 on US servers. Previously using wifi it was about 300 ish on average
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I’m in New Zealand and play with a 200 ping. If anyone with a low ping wants to swap let me know ;)