Game latency

Entità

Waiting for the problem to be solved or mitigated at the root, I ask the developers to associate the ping meter in the lobby with a special automatic block, which prevents access to the game when latency exceeds the limits of playability, calculated according to objective parameters: it is unacceptable to be teleported remotely meters back and forth, failing even to align with a window to perform a vault... It's not funny for the killer nor for survivors: time, resources and pips completely wasted.

Blueberry

The connections are fine. Look at the ping before the match starts.

Entità

@Blueberry The ping oscillates between very different values within a few seconds: in the red band I have met both excellent games and exercises of Apparition worthy of Harry Potter.

Blueberry

If you simply leave a game that isn't green, you will have zero problems. If you're walking into red games which sometimes you get excellent games, you're asking for it and have no one to blame. Some snakes are friendly, doesn't mean I'm gonna play with them all and get upset when I get bit.

Entità

@Blueberry Then I should simply stop playing: at least half of lobbies are in red zone...

Unicorn

It is a very aggravating situation to deal with. As much as people want it fixed it isn't going to be easy or quick to implement a feature like that into the game. The devs have a lot on their hands they have to handle at a time, I'm sure this is on their list :chuffed:  ❤️ In the meantime try to dodge red bar Killers. That's what I do love.

Avariku

if I dodged every lobby that dipped into the red I might as well drop the game... almost all of my games are yellow/orange, dipping into red and then settling back at yellow/orange. 

once a night a might get one green game. 
(this is the only game I play that has that issue)

Blueberry

@Entità said:
@Blueberry Then I should simply stop playing: at least half of lobbies are in red zone...

9/10 games i join are at least yellow if not green. Only time I've ever had lag issues is going into a red game because i was afk at lobby.

Chrona

I like how everyone is saying colors and not the actual ping.

It usually spikes when someone joins/attempts to join the lobby. It settles down a few seconds. If it's still bad ping after 5-10 seconds after everyone joins, it likely isn't a good lobby to play.

And the fact of the matter is, if you are consistently getting lobbies with bad ping, then not many people are playing the game within hundreds of miles of you.

altruistic

https://clips.twitch.tv/CuteCovertAsteriskPeoplesChamp

60-100 ping btw.  P2P games are trash 😂

Freudentrauma

@Blueberry said:
If you simply leave a game that isn't green, you will have zero problems. If you're walking into red games which sometimes you get excellent games, you're asking for it and have no one to blame. Some snakes are friendly, doesn't mean I'm gonna play with them all and get upset when I get bit.

Green ping isn't a 100% indication, that you won't face latency issues or lagspikes. I live in central Europe and experience my fair share of them. And it's kinda annoying when you have suddenly to guess, if you can make the pallet drop or not, or when you get a vault hit 2 or 3 seconds after you left that vault spot. Or you experience serious lag eacht ime the killer tries to hit. And let's not start about Nurse and her animations, while or after blinking, which have a tendency to bug out as well. The worst hting I faced was a doctor, who had a green ping in the lobby and as soon as the game started everything horribly lagged the entire game...

If I'm quite honest to you the biggest isse survivors can complain about is the P2P/netcode issues. There is stuff that just unreliable to use or to predict with unstable connections.

DwightsLifeMatters

Blueberry said:

If you simply leave a game that isn't green, you will have zero problems. If you're walking into red games which sometimes you get excellent games, you're asking for it and have no one to blame. Some snakes are friendly, doesn't mean I'm gonna play with them all and get upset when I get bit.

Not true. Ping indicator isn't as reliable as you think it is 

Blueberry

@DwightsLifeMatters said:
Blueberry said:

If you simply leave a game that isn't green, you will have zero problems. If you're walking into red games which sometimes you get excellent games, you're asking for it and have no one to blame. Some snakes are friendly, doesn't mean I'm gonna play with them all and get upset when I get bit.

Not true. Ping indicator isn't as reliable as you think it is 

I've been playing this game long enough to know otherwise. Maybe you're in a terribly small area of the world and out of the norm, otherwise it's more people blaming lag for getting hit instead of owning their own mistakes.

DwightsLifeMatters

Blueberry said:

@DwightsLifeMatters said:
Blueberry said:

If you simply leave a game that isn't green, you will have zero problems. If you're walking into red games which sometimes you get excellent games, you're asking for it and have no one to blame. Some snakes are friendly, doesn't mean I'm gonna play with them all and get upset when I get bit.

Not true. Ping indicator isn't as reliable as you think it is 

I've been playing this game long enough to know otherwise. Maybe you're in a terribly small area of the world and out of the norm, otherwise it's more people blaming lag for getting hit instead of owning their own mistakes.

"I've been playing this game long enough to know otherwise" can literally say the exact same thing. 

Pizzaman

You shouldn't just look at the color of the ping indicator, but also at the value(s) it does show you.
Look at how these values change over time.

• Is it moving much? Maybe even spike up frequently? Then leave the lobby (the host might have a WiFi connection or just a bad/saturated internet connection)
• Is it an almost constant value that's just moving around a bit? No major frequent spikes? Stay in the lobby.

But even considering these basic rules, you might still end up in a laggy game.