High ping after Engineer update (CIS, Russia)

Based on my observation, they disabled P2P connections. All connections are made through steam relay servers. Or they just upgraded Steam API. Quote from https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/multiplayer/networking : “Our newest APIs relay packets through the Valve network by default”.
So for Moscow connections are made via Europe Steam servers hence ping increasing. For me and my friend it’s 35->75ms.
Relaying traffic via Steam servers can be good or bad. For those, who play with friends from the same city, it’s most likely worse, for random players it actually can be better. It mainly depends on steam relays availability in specific regions.

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