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How many African players are there?

Walley
Walley Member Posts: 14
edited April 1 in General Discussions

tl;dr: Playing on dbd servers from Africa sucks (~200ms ping). How many African players are there, and can we convince BHVR to add SA servers?


I'm from South Africa and absolutely love the game. I finally have a decent Windows PC so I've been playing quite a lot in the last few months.

However, something that almost immediately became an annoyance is constantly having to play around the ~200ms ping that comes with playing on EU/US/etc. servers.

This is quite literally the difference between escaping and dying in some trials, since actively playing around the killer becomes significantly more difficult (and less fun when you get hit a mile away from a window). Likewise it makes playing killer less enjoyable as hits that seemingly should land sometimes do not.

The win/loss aspect doesn't bother me too much, personally, but my enjoyment of the game has definitely suffered somewhat.

So I am wondering how many others (if any) have shared my frustration?

I feel as though this should be an easy fix with AWS having been launched in SA a while back, but I am admittedly uninformed beyond that.

Post edited by Rizzo on

Best Answer

  • BenOfMilam
    BenOfMilam Member Posts: 911
    Answer ✓

    I've played with a few South Africans, and a couple Nigerians and people from Niger.

    There's quite a few

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