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Is announcing the official dates for the servers soon?
Yes
Is announcing the official dates for the servers soon?
Yes
Bahrain will come before Mumbai? Or both at the same time?
Around the same time, but I want to leave us some wiggle room in case there are routing problems
/u/ZealousApathy ok, what about Madrid servers in Europe?
As I said elsewhere in this thread, they'll be arriving very soon.
Hi ZealousApathy. Thank you for the straight answer. I just wanted to talk more about ping in Kazakhstan. For csgo we have a very playable ping of 65-70ms (from Almaty) to Stockholm. The ping is much higher for Warsaw though (110+ms). I assume that Kazakhtelecom (the biggest ISP in the country) have optimized the routing. I'm hopeful that something similar could be done for Valorant.
Thanks for the reference point, I think we should set least be able to match the ping you get for CS:GO. I'll send you a DM to get more details which will help us identify any issues.
Thanks for the update Zealous!
So will Pakistan be part of Mumbai (SEA) or Bahrain (Middle Eastern) servers?
I think we'll test the latency once we have the servers online and see.
Hey there! Really appreciate the updates! Just wanted to ask if you'd be able to route Middle Eastern countries (Specifically the United Arab Emirates and the surrounding countries) to SEA servers as we get better ping there. In EU servers, we struggle just as much as OP showcased with a minimum of 124 ms. We tested created SEA accounts from Dubai specifically and played around 20 matches which consisted of us getting 84 ms. Wouldn't it make sense to route us there rather than EU as a band-aid fix until ME servers are out?
Given how close Bahrain is to going live, I don't think it's worth making that change right now. You should get a very good ping to Bahrain from the UAE.
Hi ZealousApathy, while you guys work on the India servers, can I please ask that you do not region lock it. I would like to continue to be able to play with the SEA friends that I have made while playing valorant, and if valorant servers in india resemble anything close to the CS servers in India, it's just not going to be a fun time (toxic). I live in the southern half of india and I get 40ms ping to Singapore, and I know many who have decent ping (sub-70) even in the north.
We aren't planning to region lock it, we'll be adding the Mumbai servers to the Asia Pacific region so you can still play with your friends in Singapore.
Hey is Valorant and LOL server same? Because India needs LOL server too...
They are different, and I can't speak to LoL's plans for servers in the region
I think I have a decent solution, how about allow us to see our pings before entering the game in agent select, so we can opt not to push through if ever the ping is high on the lowest ping server possible at that time 🤔
You can sort of do this now, open a Custom lobby and you can see your ping to all of the game server locations.
"Delete that shit"
If I delete their account, their ping is zero, right?
I'm gonna DM you to get some more info
Please fix East EU being mainly routed to Istanbul... I personally can't take it anymore, even though I've tried to stay positive about it in the past month.
Almost 99% of all matches are Turkish only - either voice or chat - toxicity at max, when you're the only English speaking person in the whole match (it's like 1vs9 all the time).
Enough is enough! Whose "brilliant" idea was it to put together 4 regions (EU, TR, RU, Middle East, etc.) with such huge communication barriers and issues on just one server?
I would gladly sacrifice and play with 40 ms (Frankfurt 1 and 2), but with at least English speakers, than right now with 24 ms, but not understanding a single word and getting reported just for being the only non-turkish speaker in the whole match.
Hey friend, it was probably my "brilliant" idea. I'll DM you to get more info and understand why you're ending up on Istanbul.
@ZealousApathy what about israel? We too have been playing all this time on mostly germany/EU servers on 80-120 ping.
Unfortunately there aren't any AWS availability zones in the Levant region. Once Bahrain is live we'll explore what kind of pings Israel etc. gets to Bahrain, but my prediction is that it will be worse than Europe. If that's the case, we'll explore other possibilities, but I don't have any firm commitment on timeline etc.
Playing from Boston, MA and when I hit the Virginia server I get 25ms (nice!) but sometimes I get Chicago or Georgia and I see 40ms. Are there any plans to select which data center to connect to? Other games usually selecting NA East wouldn't route to Central US. I realize this is nit picky considering the video but I thought I'd ask..
This is a compromise. The matchmaker is trying to keep ping low as well as make matches quickly, which is something why you'll get matched onto Chicago or Atlanta. Other games let you pick a specific server to match on (e.g. CS:GO), but that comes with its own compromise, because you'll spend more waiting for a game (unless we make other compromises like allowing a wider skill range in a game). We don't have any plans to change this right now, but we keep a close eye on the metrics (e.g. "time to find match" vs "added latency per match") and will tweak things as necessary.
Do you use AWS servers? Pakistan, despite being close to both countries doesn't always get the best routing to servers in them. We get the best routing to AWS servers with 20ish ping to Mumbai.
Yeah I think we'll make sure Pakistani players end up on Mumbai, that's something we'll address once the server goes live
It's possible to choose any shard for custom games (I'm pretty sure once we used Tokyo servers for the lulz and played on 300 ms), is there some technical reason to not allow cross-shard play on customs or is it just because of latency ? I don't see too much of a problem having a little higher latency for custom games if it means we could play with more people.
If you're in Europe, you're able to select Tokyo because we added some game servers in Tokyo for Eastern Russia.
It all comes down to compromises. Is there a technical reason why you can't pick any game server in the world? No, we could make that happen. But we chose to do it this way because it compartmentalized the world into manageable chunks (e.g. a problem that affects Asia Pacific doesn't immediately impact Europe) and it works fine for the vast majority of the playerbase (i.e. there aren't really that many European players who have a genuine need to play a game in Singapore).
It's always a decision we can revisit (though it would require some non-trivial work to change), but we have a ton of other more important things to work on right now.
Maybe you could fix the current servers that are way less responsive than the beta and death match servers
It's exactly the same infrastructure/servers running since Beta (for those regions that were in the Beta, e.g. NA and EU) and Deathmatch runs on those same servers.
Can we get a better servers for North Africa please ? the closest one (Tunisia) is Frunkfurt and it's 50 ping at best (some of my friends go down to 40 so their internet is better probably)
But is there plans for closer servers like in South France(Monaco/Marseille) , Italy or Malta ? like anything that's close to mediterranean sea ?
Cause honestly i prefer to play in Europe but with just closer servers if possible
We don't have any plans right now.
Can we know when Madrid servers are gonna arrive?
Very soon!
Any eta on Madrid servers? For us (Portuguese) will be a big improvement in ping for sure!
Very soon!