Why is EU full of Russians?
I was wondering: Why is it that I am playing on an EU server (selected Steam server is in Germany), yet I get about 50% Russians? Does Russia not have any servers of their own? But this was a thing even before dedicated servers.
I know of a lot of people here who play the game, so I'm curious about why I don't see German, French, Italian, Spanish or Austrian players, combined, more often than Russians.
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Because geographically half of Russia is in Europe. I am in Ireland and always get games with a mixture of European nationalities. I even get games with Americans and Canadians. There's nothing wrong whatsoever about Russians. I find they are usually amazing team mates.
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Well, the only thing that is wrong with them is... or rather was their ping.
As EU, I get 50-70 ping with anyone from the EU but Russians, who I get around 150-200. It was a plague back in p2p days, as survivor was almost unplayable for me, unless I dodged tons of lobbies to find a green ping. I think the geomatchmaker is drunk and thinks that far east Russia is still in EU.
Dedicated servers aren't much better, but at least I can see a green ping, even though it works like an old ~150 peer to peer one (common issues known by everyone)... :(
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@PureHostility Ah ye I can totally understand if its to do with ping. But that is really down to a persons internet (well before dedicated servers it was).
But as I said I can be even matched with Americans and Canadians.
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- Asia: Singapore
- Asia: Tokyo
- Australia: Sydney
- Europe: Frankfurt
- Europe: London
- South America: Sao Paulo
- North America: North Virginia
- North America: Oregon
Nope, no servers for Russia.
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Only 50 % ? Lucky bastard ! I get 8/10 games with russians.
And the playstyle is every time the same.
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I feel you. EU servers are a horrible experience. Also ppl say "if you reach higher ranks you wont meet them" - WRONG.
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For some reason Dbd has a very large Russian playbase, its fine, I only find it a bit annoying playing in EU because nobody speaks english in postgame, or speaks it poorly, so I use a VPN just to get on the US servers.
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Yes, imagine. We do not have our own servers. And we play with either the Japanese or the Europeans. Who would have thought.
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