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    • DgunD
      Dgun
      last edited by Dgun

      Im in Indonesia and play mainly 3v3 ranked.

      For the last week or so almost every game I lag, before I had no problem. Connections often over 400 ping. Did the relays change recently?

      I feel bad ruining games and am not sure what to do.

      Disabled ipv6.
      Tried a vpn.
      Disabled all ui mods.
      Messed around with the relay selection.
      Nothing helped as far as I can tell.

      Also the news home screen on FAF seems to take ages to load and also the matchmaking page can sometimes take over a minute to load.

      Any ideas?

      Cheers

      (EDIT - saying I had no problems is not quite true, I previously join a game and would lag, but it was maybe 20% of the time and now it is almost every game)

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      • DgunD
        Dgun
        last edited by

        Also why does the match maker put players together that have over 400 ping. Is there a way for the matchmaker to inspect connectivity before selecting the the teams?

        And additionally is there a way to change the tic rate of the game so that it would only lag at over 600 ping for example?

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        • Brutus5000B
          Brutus5000 FAF Server Admin @Dgun
          last edited by

          @dgun said in Unplayable matchmaking for the last few weeks:

          Also why does the match maker put players together that have over 400 ping. Is there a way for the matchmaker to inspect connectivity before selecting the the teams?

          No. The ping is in between players. The matchmaker cannot know this beforehand.

          And additionally is there a way to change the tic rate of the game so that it would only lag at over 600 ping for example?

          No.

          He said, "I've been to the year 3000
          Not much has changed, but they live underwater
          And your great-great-great-granddaughter
          Is playin' FAF, playin' FAF"

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          • DgunD
            Dgun @Brutus5000
            last edited by

            @brutus5000

            @brutus5000 said in Unplayable matchmaking for the last few weeks:

            No. The ping is in between players. The matchmaker cannot know this beforehand.

            Sure... but the players once they enter the matchmaking queue can all ping each other and report to the matchmaking server.

            Any idea on help? Has something changed? I remembered there was an Australasia turn server? Maybe as that is gone that is why its gotten worse?

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            • JipJ
              Jip @Dgun
              last edited by Jip

              @dgun said in Unplayable matchmaking for the last few weeks:

              Im in Indonesia and play mainly 3v3 ranked.

              For the last week or so almost every game I lag, before I had no problem. Connections often over 400 ping. Did the relays change recently?

              Perhaps it is because of this event:

              • https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/04/business/red-sea-cables-cut-internet/index.html
              • https://www.bolnews.com/pakistan/2024/04/internet-users-facing-problems-as-undersea-cable-damaged/

              It matches with your time window and geographical region.

              A work of art is never finished, merely abandoned

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              • DgunD
                Dgun @Jip
                last edited by Dgun

                @jip said in Unplayable matchmaking for the last few weeks:

                @dgun said in Unplayable matchmaking for the last few weeks:

                Im in Indonesia and play mainly 3v3 ranked.

                For the last week or so almost every game I lag, before I had no problem. Connections often over 400 ping. Did the relays change recently?

                Perhaps it is because of this event:

                • https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/04/business/red-sea-cables-cut-internet/index.html
                • https://www.bolnews.com/pakistan/2024/04/internet-users-facing-problems-as-undersea-cable-damaged/

                It matches with your time window and geographical region.

                Very interesting! Thank you for sharing. I suspect you are correct. Maybe something could be placed on the news page of FAF client. The last few games i've been flamed and sworn at like crazy haha. I suspect many remote players are feeling quite confused right now as to why everything has gone to shit.

                I've stopped playing now due to the hate and the lag.

                I'll be back again once the cables are fixed

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                • CheeriosC
                  Cheerios @Dgun
                  last edited by

                  @dgun Hey man I live in japan and had connections issues too. I saw that you started using a VPN with no improvement. What helped my connection issues however, is using a VPN and changing my location to America. I don't know if it will work in your case, but its worth a shot.

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                  • DgunD
                    Dgun @Cheerios
                    last edited by

                    @cheerios thanks ill try

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                    • JipJ
                      Jip
                      last edited by

                      I've made a news post about it 👍

                      A work of art is never finished, merely abandoned

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                      • DgunD
                        Dgun @Jip
                        last edited by

                        @jip thanks dude

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                        • AzraaaA
                          Azraaa
                          last edited by

                          Yeah I live in Japan too and it's unplayable so definitely related to that article Jip posted 😞

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                          • DgunD
                            Dgun @Jip
                            last edited by

                            @jip what about relay / turn servers? Was there not one in australia? Could we get one in singapore? What is the costs like to run them?

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                            • DgunD
                              Dgun @Azraaa
                              last edited by

                              @azraaa thanks for confirming. Lets post update here when it works again.

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                              • RoweyR
                                Rowey @Dgun
                                last edited by

                                @dgun the current issue with the turn servers is that they are the current target of the ddos attacks that are ongoing.

                                "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" - Spock

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                                • DgunD
                                  Dgun @Rowey
                                  last edited by

                                  @roweynoob interesting. any idea who is behind it?

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                                  • RoweyR
                                    Rowey @Dgun
                                    last edited by

                                    @dgun we are actively working on ddos protection but this one so much we can do. With people using Thier free time to fix stuff

                                    "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" - Spock

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                                    • DgunD
                                      Dgun
                                      last edited by

                                      Connectivity seems to be back to normal now

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