What did you expect Ausnon? You literally live on a prison island. Maybe support immigration and get some more people in there so you won't have to depend on other region's servers.
Lol so many things to correct you on, but instead, I'll just say you're a fucking idiot.
No distractions from couch co-op and single player titles
The dream
Reject MP, return to story based gameplay
I mean... you can have both
Instructions unlcear, Dark Urge only party.
Why play games with other people at all? People are like the worst
Because AI is predictable and boring (and/or cheats). The human element keeps games exciting.
Coop games can have good communities. Deep rock galactic is the prime example
Rock. And. Stone.
Stop playing competitive games and see how fast that changes.
Competitive gamers are assholes who just want to prove they are better than other people.
Sorry that you have such an experience; many online games have fairly toxic communities, others do not; and for every game you can find amazing and kind teammates if you look closely!
RTS games are all dead
Is this post from 2014? Age of Empires is stronger than ever, since the release of the Definitive Editions and AoE4!
Great! It means you have more time to enjoy the beauty of nature!
Wait, it's Australia.
I know it's a running joke that Australian wildlife is so deadly, but genuinely, in my day-to-day, I almost never think about it.
Except for a couple of months in Spring. When riding my bike becomes a game of Russian roulette with whether or not I'm going to be swooped by magpies.
Jerky. There's a reason they call them the black and white mafia. Throw some jerky for them and they'll remember you, corvines are damn smart.
For today's lucky 10 000: https://youtu.be/YGGTcYfrEZU?si=xzjxe1ST5vWgImkD
It's more than a running joke, it's hilarious when the yanks say it. They have shit loads of venomous spiders and snakes, plus fucking wolves, bears, cougars, alligators and crocodiles.
But you can just give em the old 'at least our schools aren't shooting ranges' too.
I have forged a peace deal between me and the magpies that live in my trees a few years, it's a tense relationship, but they don't swoop me and I don't swing a plastic rake at them.
I played Genshin Impact once when it first came. The routing from Australia to Asia was so bad that it actually routed to the US first, than back to Asia.
I actually got better ping by using a VPN to Japan or Taiwan before connecting to the game server.
200 ping to NA? Lucky east coasters. In my wow playing days living in perth on the west coast I was main tanking at 300-500ms.
Out here ANTICIPATING shield taunt times
Well it is the most isolated captial city in the world
spiders everywhere, most expensive drugs in the world
Well, imagine living in Europe where there's millions of other players. Yet you play solo cause you don't have any friends.
I played Destiny 2 recently with some kid from Australia... he seemed like he was able to play online fine and I'm in the U.S.
It looked fine to you, but what was the perspective like on his end? Destiny 2 has a hybrid model where a bunch of stuff is done on the client to make overall experience feel smoother, even when latency is appreciable, but that still by necessity leads to all sorts of weirdness behind the scenes when the clients are catching up with the server and you start having hit registration issues, teleporting enemies and players, even though the client isn’t really dropping frames per se.
Most FPS are probably fine nowadays, they've developed a lot of lag and ping compensation strategies. It might be a problem in a high stakes tournament with the best players.
I've been playing online games in Australia since.. I guess the original Xbox. Actually on PC before hand I think? Was the original quake multiplayer? I have strong red faction memories but I'm sure I played a few prior.
Anyway - this was likely true until the last 10 years, 5 if you were regional. It's never been an issue with any big game - Warzone, PUBG etc. Even old battlefields have active AUS servers.
At least they have Path of Exile (IIRC PoE has aussie and a NZ server, because GGG is based out of NZ nearby)
Technically, Runescape or at least OSRS has dedicated AU servers, and it is one of the biggest MMOs whether we like to admit it or not.
This is all bullshit lol. Wow and FF14 are the biggest MMOs and have oce servers with thousands of players. Dota has oce servers. Every fps game I've played has a ton of oce community servers.
Idk what games this fun-sponge plays but his vibes are lame af. Maybe he's mad cause the 10 players he's referring to don't like him.
Outside of launch periods more niche games like Darktide, Tribes etc are reduced to a small core of regulars at best and are completely dead at worst.
Days after the launch of Dawn of War 3 I couldn’t find any OCE players… granted it was far more dead on arrival than the majority of games. And yes obligatory DoW3 was trash.
Big games and franchises are fine and I even host several servers with decent sized communities myself, (currently) Palworld, Project Zomboid and Minecraft.
Even like 10 years ago I would frequently get a steady 30 ping in heaps of different multiplayer games. I don't play as many games these days but I know enough people who play online, even in competitive shooters, who don't have any issues.
Maybe they live in a small town somewhere, because at least in the bigger cities it's not that dire.
They're talking about getting matched to servers overseas. You're definitely not getting 30 ping to Singapore, which in most cases is the best server you'll get if there isn't an Australian one.
Not sure which games they want to play that don't have Aussie servers though. I don't play any shooters.
DRG is playable up to 400ms easily. Rock & Stone brother!
Did I hear a Rock and Stone?
Even if you're in Australia, servers are on the east coast, so playing from Darwin is hell.
Before I retired in protest, I managed to get to the highest competitive rank in Halo Infinite. Only when I moved to NSW did I realise how crippled I was.
Sounds like bollocks to me. OP is probably just gaming on some dodgy wifi router they got free from their ISP and installed half an acre away, or they're playing on an xbox, or some other crap thats their fault. Dont blame geography just get good.
Maybe he is somewhere on the country side that is connected with ancient technology over overloaded connections.
So don't play online. People are toxic af anyway in most multiplayer games.
So how else I'm gonna feel good beating those sweats who do nothing but play the game 8 hours a day and still get beat by me who got lots of responsibility.
Meanwhile, us New Zealand gamers are eagerly waiting for free slots on the Aussie servers.
What about starlink? Can you get that in Australia an how is the ping?
In case you seriously wonder: the problem is not cables being slow, but rather Australia being super damn far away from the places servers are normally located in, which means that on top of all the delay the equipment brings in, it just takes time to propagate a signal there. It's one of those edge cases when the literal speed of light is not enough, and it's a hard physical limitation.
You can't circumvent it with Starlink, as you still have to move the signal between, in this case, Asia and Australia, plus up and down to the height of Starlink satellites, plus delays of the ground station, at least two satellites (actually more), another ground station, and all the switches and routers on your way there.
The main part of ping is the processing at the hops taking time, not the physical distance (for reference, with full speed of light you could get around the equator in around 150ms). I do recall there at least being a claim that starlink has reasonably good ping, it doesn't seem impossible for it to be better than via fiber, even if shooters are probably still unplayable
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