This is mostly because when you tell people “we have servers in this specific country” people scream “why are servers not in MY specific country”.
as said we normally cater for quite a large area, and yes the more north you go the less the player base is, the problem with anything middle east you looking at am minimum of 160/140 ping which would be better than the 180-220 ping we get in EU
I also work in IT so I know that its not just a case of oh we can throw servers everywhere and its gonna cost nothing, but at the same time its not like we dont have the infrastructure so its more just renting the servers.
Thing is this is literally a cause and effect, all the previous games were P2P, besides some small issues we have no issues, now its 100% dedicated servers and I mean thats great but I mean thats their choice, if they allowed us to host but they not so its really just crap no matter how you look at it and decisions like that have a lasting effect
There would be 0 issue if we could still host our own servers I mean then they literally pay nothing.
I suggest creating one dedicated server for Australia, South America and Africa
Host it somewhere in Russia… for convenience please.
But, on a serious note, I have always been a great fan of dedicated servers. P2P bs strongly depends on the host… And, V2 still does not show us ping! That red yellow green indicator is nonsense - before I installed the host mod (which I would advise everyone to get) my gaming experience (i.e. ping) on “green” hosts was significantly different.
That’s why I’m still for dedicated servers (if the ping is not too high), but please, please, FS let p2p peasants live!
V2 does have a numerical ping option in the settings, but it was only added less than 2 years ago. So following development patterns, it won’t be in Darktide.
Thing is many on release games also tend to have a ton of servers and as said companies can gauge if its worth keeping x amount in the country big examples being new world/wow/lost ark etc
If our country doesnt bring the worth in for said server/s then they can minimize the amount/capacity
The one VT player from Namibia also backs it, and likely won’t bother with darktide unless I can get ahold of >100 ping somehow, I don’t mind if its just peer to peer.
This is a bit of a difficult suggestion, almost sure EU decided to not cut down all such services for the time being but i am almost sure they have made it so they cant be expanded on by any means at least. Not in Russia.
Small actors that try sneaking around this get hit pretty hard last i heard.
Theres microsoft azure and amazon live servers which create game/server instances live (based on demand) and are pretty much everywhere on the planet (probs not SA and middle east though lol), I wonder if FS will go this route?
yea best servers for us is Asia, which is 120-140 ms… not saying its impossible to play as I have done man many D5 missions, even auric levels on D5 but honestly… it still sucks every now and then you do get caught out and its just meh
many of the players I connected with for this post, are friends In south africa who play vermintide and luckily we can host our own servers
something that they said they would work towards, but still nothing yet
its even sadder to see that even with the attention this post got, we still haven’t got a single nod from FS
