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Can there be a ping limit to combat VPNs?
Title, more and more frequently I am getting matched with people who are using them, I feel it can't be that hard to implement a system to prevent people above a certain ping from being matched together?
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Yeah I can't understand why this hasn't already been implemented.
There's no valid reason why you need to be VPNing to 12,000 km away from your actual location. It's honestly just cheating at that point.
A ping limit is very much needed. Of course they'd have to keep it relatively relaxed to account for the limited DbD server locations, but at least it would help prevent the most egregious cases.
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They probably wont as the Chinese market probably spends quite a bit of money and they all have to VPN to access the rest of the world.
I use ExitLag to play on NA West Coast from Australia which give me 170ms ping but I only play survivor as killer would be pretty unfair.
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Same, I have friends I play with from OCE to NA and the ping is atrocious, but sometimes it can get in good plays. I've had ping be both my enemy and my friend in the same match and it was the most hilarious thing I have ever witnessed. I wish I had been recording at the time.
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I find NA is a lot more chill than OCE too, people here play like they are in a tournament a lot of the time. Plus we just get Billy over and over of late.
Yeah the ping is pretty bad but I had just as bad back before dedicated servers came out, it is playable you just cant greed pallets etc. I have asked killers if I am lagging and they mostly say I am not, though I have been hit from half a mile away a few times lol
But abusing ping as killer is a whole different topic in itself
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If there was a ping limit it would screw players in rural areas who can't get good internet due to united state isps being absolute failures(looking at you with contempt wimdstream) And it would make playing with certain friends in different regions impossible
And as one of those players I would rather deal with lagging and the occasional disconnected from match over being completely locked out until the internet decides to be semi decent
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I agree, I've found NA to be pretty chill as well. But just like here in OCE it can vary from game to game.
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Yeah for sure, one thing I will say about NA is the shameless tunnelling is a lot more common than OCE. But overall the matches are lot more relaxed for sure
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that absolutly depends on what a high ping does.
can someone give me a quick run down how the ping affect the game?
if its only to the players own detriment im inclined to say it does not matter but realisticly survivor are a team so the rest should not carry the burden of a bad ping. if you can gain advantage from a bad ping then ofcourse there should be a ping limit
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A killer with high ping can hit survivors in locations they have already left. So the survivor clears a window, but because the killer has high ping, the survivor gets hit as though they hadn't cleared the window.
I played against a killer running a VPN. I dropped a pallet, the killer freezes in place. Two seconds later I'm on the other side of the pallet with the killer and he hits me. Lagging out your connection as killer basically allows you to rewind time for the survivors you play against. It's probably more effective than running speed hacks. Plus it's not against the rules, so it's a win-win.
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That is very interesting.
And if thats how it is i stand by my previous point and say there should be a ping limit so killer can not cheat with it
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If the killer's ping is over two hundred (being generous), then survivors should be able to DC without getting punished for it. Either that or there should be some warning prior to the match starting, so survivors can volunteer to play in matches like that (not sure why anyone would want to though).
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There aren't enough DBD servers globally to put on a super strict ping limit. As another has pointed out Chinese players would be likely all excluded. And peeps anywhere far from available servers would also be out, such as Australia and in South America.
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