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Swapping out the old lobby ping indicators for no reason?

kit_mason
kit_mason Member Posts: 355
in General Discussions

Went into a game today with over 300ms of ping the entire match, back when i played a few months ago the lobbies had a ping indicator that you could hover over to see exactly what your ping looked like, but after i came back more recently that seems to be entirely replaced by a red bar that only flashed for maybe half a second in the pregame lobby?


Why bother breaking something that wasn't an issue in the first place?

Comments

  • HarlockTaliesin
    HarlockTaliesin Member Posts: 763

    This caused, and still causes, a lot of unrest among players. The only benefit to it is that if one particular player is lagging out, you can see which one it is. Everything else about the change is negative.

    You can no longer see your own ping in the lobby to know the server connection is bad so you can try another trial before you get dumped in one, and either have to DC and take a penalty in being able to play or AFK and soak up a loss.

    Killers can see survivors lagging, so they know which to target to get an easy first kill.

    Survivors can see if the killer is lagging, so they know they can more easily troll them and get a win.

    The only reason I can think of that BHVR deliberately did this was that the player population has gotten so low that that the game has to extend out what servers to connect you to for a trial, and doesn't want you to know. Before the change I started noticing some lobbies were giving me huge ping times by comparison. I did some checking and the game was throwing me over to AWS in Europe (I live in the US). The trial would be unplayable most times, so I had to lobby dodge or restart the game client to get connected back to my continent.

    Players in the US and Europe have been seeing players with Chinese characters for names off and on. I've had players in my trials connecting from Brazil, France, New Zealand, and other places where the ping was jacked up.

    In a game where QOL increases are badly needed, we get thrown a QOL decrease. :/

  • JayDoesGames
    JayDoesGames Member Posts: 264

    The ping indicator system is actually pretty useless. Why tell people about ping issues in game when they can do nothing about it and everyone can get frustrated by laggy hits. It makes no sense.