Despite i am located in the EU, i played now Air RB for several months with disabled EU and CIS servers as based on my observations EU servers are flooded with RU and Asian stat padders trying to farm rookies playing US planes at around BR 4.0 - the US players die like flies.
I accept lousy fps in exchange for playing not every 2nd match 2 vs 8 after 7-8 minutes. Yes, playing SA had other severe disadvantages like a lot more teamkills (mostly PRC/ROC players) and more B-25 bots, but i liked the small lobbies with 6-8 vs 6-8 much more than this 16 vs 16 madness - and depending on daytime i played 30-60% on Pacific maps instead of the standard 4 bases map nonsense…
100000% needs to return. Either they have outright gotten rid of the SA server or the Auto function doesnt work. Apparently “it will select the lowest ping server first” and since the change I havent had one game where I wasnt on the EU server with 300-350 ping. Its damn near unplayable that high.
Such a stupid and pointless change to make and screws over Australian players
Genuinely makes it feel like the couldnt care any less for Australian players. Sure we may not make up a huge portion of the player base, but there have been far smaller and larger games released that have given at least 1 Australian server. Quite saddening to be honest
You better don’t recognize that Gaijin is channeling their traffic from (nearly) whole south Germany through the cheapest TATA Server they could find near Frankfurt.
Sorry. I see that the SA server had the lowest ping for connections from Australia as well as Asia.
I hope Gaijin will fix this, as it can be reverted back to the previous specification by simply adding one more checkbox.
Today’s update changed the notation of server selection, but as usual, auto and SA were never separated.
I can only assume that the SA servers and the users in that region are taken lightly by Gaijin. It’s really disconcerting.
They dont seem to give a damn about SA at all. I wouldnt be surprised if they are actually planning on removing it making the game EU/NA/CIS only. This is what I was copping today, It forced me to EU even though “we will select servers with the best ping”…Gaijin…SA is better ping at 250…
@Stona_WT
can we get the SA servers back please?
i havent been playing because of nearly 300ms ping (which i can live with if it was just that) but also upwards of 20% packet loss averaging 5% consistently…
i cant play like this. I’m physically in SA and at least should have access to decent ping and no packet loss
It’s there (as visible on screen post above you).
SA server will be used if enough players are in queue. If not, you will be connected to 2nd best (ping wise) server (after some time in queue).
Currently gaijin stopped connecting me to SA server again
it was still fine yesterday, not even holiday, and i get matches in SA server under 1 minute.
Why are they closing SA server again?
100-90 ping is much more bearable than 350 ping with 1%-5%-10% packet loss EU server
Cant Gaijin leave the server as it is before today?
“SA server will be used if enough players are in queue. If not, you will be connected to 2nd best (ping wise) server (after some time in queue).”
While great in theory, not having the option to just, wait longer, for a match with playable ping, instead of being forced onto a server with worse ping, is absurd. I’m fine waiting a few minutes more in-between matches, and while I may not speak for all players, I have seen forum activity that would indicate it’s a common-ish sentiment.
Playing from Australia and being forced to use NA servers because the SA servers “aren’t populated” or “don’t have enough players” sucks, getting 250ms of ping and PL, watching shells leave my tanks barrel and fly through the air (sometimes even hitting the enemy), only for my client to be told by the server that, actually no, your player was killed nearly 200ms ago, that shot didn’t count, happens every other game, and knowing from other games that whether in Singapore or Japan, ping could often be half to a third of what my current NA ping is.
To deny players choice of the server they play on, in favor of the “best” server as decided by ???, is frankly, disheartening.
Please could we have to option to manually chose the SA server returned.
Have to disagree for a couple of reasons.
If auto is best then it would be a separate option that could be selected by all players or alternatively a forceed option for all players Ie. your server will be selected automatically for everyone.
That it’s a forced option specifically for SA - and only SA - suggests it is about funneling the SA playerbase onto other servers.
Wouldn’t surprise me if this wasn’t a trial to see how much of a fuss was kicked up - if the complaints are limited and people accept playing on non-SA servers then Gaijin can focus on their northern hemisphere market and maybe wind back or shut down the SA servers.
Your statement also depends on your goal - if getting into a game is all you care about then sure fine.
If your goal is to play a game you enjoy with a reasonably stable connection then I’d rather wait for a suitable amount of players on the SA server every time. At certain times of the day if I don’t get a game on SA that is preferable for me to playing on any of the other servers because I know the connection will be flaky even if the WarThunder client thinks otherwise.
No, AUTO is not the best option for any player. Australian players are being forced to either not play or try to play with unplayable ping on because we’re being forced onto US servers.
And I know for a fact you are region filtering.
If auto is allocating me to US and SA queues, I can quit the game, turn on my VPN and set the region to Japan, restart the game, and auto will allocate me to SA only.
I can then shut down my VPN connection and join the SA queue.
The claim that it is based on player numbers is an absolute lie.
All Australian players are asking for is to not be allocated to the US queue so we can actually play the game.
I can switch back and forth all day just by having my VPN on or off when the game client starts. I understand that you’re only relying what information you have been given, but the information you have been given is absolutely untrue.
We in Australia are not being allocated according to player count or ping, we’re being assigned according to our region and we’re being assigned to a region that is unplayable.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU, Will try starting game with vpn to force (auto) to be limited to SA servers, and as said above, the “best” for a player depends on what they want, be it a minimum queue times, or sacrificing a longer queue for a better connection, having an IR missile launch detection delayed by 250ms+ at short range is a death sentence.
No worries at all mate. Just remember: once the game client has started, turn your VPN off.
Auto will still stay on SA only. It will not change until you close the client and restart it.
Which again just goes to show queue allocation for auto has nothing to do with ping or player count, because it’s only being evaluated on the initial client login and never updates after that.
