How much does it cost to get a server in a specific region for BHVR?

raze_

Seriously, how much? i will pay BHVR for it, maybe not all of it but i will support it as much as i can!

im Seriously sick playing against Russian killers, me who has a ping between 20- max 50 get matched up 9/10 games against the russian lads, i have nothing against them but i seriously dont wanna play anymore against them because of the Latency issue! You fixed DH, Pallet hits but it doesnt matter because these killers still get the free hits this is just so stupid and unfair.

why do i need to suffer from it when i have a great ping? why does my fun less worth then theirs? why is it not possible to give them just a server? is it really that expensive?

like imagine. just move to russia and play DBD and you have already an advantage and the devs dont do anything about that. worse thing is, its not even VPNing its literally a part of the game.

either bring a overall hit validiation or give them a server seriously. im sure they would also be happy to play always against their people right? so what is here the problem? it just doesnt make sense to me that a specific region connects to a server 5000KM away ofc there will be problems.

or better idea. give us a ping indicator to see the killers ping thats way easier.

but do something its just fun breaking.

zarr

I agree, it is pretty unfortunate that huge playerbases such as Russia (and Middle-Eastern regions) are routed to Germany, with latencies starting at 80ms and ranging up to 160ms even just based on distance alone. Validation for hits outside of stuns and DH does not actually exist, so facing killer players from those regions does consistently make for a worse experience (and survivor players from those regions consistently suffer from latency).

The problem is that BHVR is using Amazon's "GameLift" services to provide these servers, and Amazon does not have datacenters in Russia.

Here are some options of what could be done:

They could use a different server provider for regions in which Amazon does not provide servers.

They could put regions in which Amazon does not provide servers back onto the peer-to-peer architecture (which is actually something they originally said they were going to do).

They could implement actual general hit validation, or even more ideally, move the entire hit system to the servers, such that latency does not benefit one side unfairly.

You could use a VPN to play on UK servers - since UK servers are obviously further west than German servers, Russian and other more eastern players do not regularly end up on them. You'll have around 20ms increased latency yourself, but that's not so bad.

Ecstasy

God, I've wanted to make a thread like this too recently too, though its my ping at issue here...

I literally spent 12+ hours recently researching and testing out every possible tweak I could make that might improve my ping to some manageable levels thinking there must be *something* wrong here.

All I learned was that my equipment settings were damn near optimal already. At best, all that time/energy shaved maybe 3-5 off. At best. That might sound good if I weren't consistently hovering around 75 as a GOOD in-game average.

You bet your ass I've got the best damn internet my zip code has available. I mean... okay that's ######### DSL here, but high speed and I'd recently moved like 15 minutes away from nearby where I had a fiber connection. To be honest, my ping on fiber wasn't that much better. Noticeable enough I spent 12 hours looking into fixes here, but even there I would've killed for a ping of like 50 still.

I live in the United States too, but I guess just about as far from both the western and eastern serves as I could possibly get and everyone else I face is similar or outright lower up to incredibly margins that make an insane difference. Hell, sometimes I seem to end up ON THE BRAZILIAN SERVER and end up having roughly the same ping. Geographically, I guess it's not that much further.

There's my issue: I'm basically equidistant the ONLY 2 servers on this massive bloody continent and one from ANOTHER continent.

There's somehow this giant ######### dead-zone where the game goes from being a really reactive cat & mouse chase to well... a totally different type of gameplay based on guesswork swings and major whiffing, while largely waiting for the lucky bastards with 40-50 ping to mess up or get screwed over by lag. Being able to switch situations with the OP and have that lower ping would be the damn dream for me, I couldn't care less about occasionally getting screwed by the differences if only to be one the good side of all that for once.

WELL ######### THESE LIMITED SERVER LOCATIONS ALREADY.

I know this game makes more than enough money to afford better because I recently went through and calculated how much I've personally spent on this game. And that hefty amount still has to be marginal next to the folks who regularly buy those insane $10-15 cosmetics that I see all the time when new stuff releases. Vanity purchases aside, there are very few games with anywhere near the sort of regular 3-month cash injections that this game gets from its damn near mandatory DLC and an audience that's gotta have em all. The funds to expand absolutely exist.