r/EscapeFromArena

I'm an SA player, so I've always had to play on servers with around 140–160 ping. I've gotten used to it over time and, honestly, I used to perform pretty well despite the latency. I was positive in roughly 90% of my matches.

But ever since the hitreg update, something feels completely different.

The amount of gunfights I'm losing where I feel like I should have won, or situations where both players end up killing each other at the exact same time, has increased massively. It happens constantly now.

I understand that playing on 140–160 ping isn't ideal, and I'm not expecting to have the same experience as someone playing on 20 ping. But before this update, the game was still perfectly playable for me. Now it feels like the hitreg changes have made high-ping gameplay dramatically worse.

For SA players who don't have low-ping servers available, this is honestly borderline unplayable right now.

Has anyone else playing on 140+ ping noticed the same thing after the update?

BTW: Lack of SA servers are completely bullshit from BSG and nikita.

Recently they introduced a 200ms ping limit for the servers. If your ping is above 200 then you cannot select that region. If you are on a server and your ping goes above 200 then you repeatedly get the disconnected due to bad connection screen which removes you from the match temporarily every 30 seconds.

Prior to this, I used to play on the China and Japan servers as the Aus server never had anyone playing on it. I don't know what they did, but previously Japan was 130 ping and not too bad but now they are 220 ping so i cant play on those servers anymore.

So now I am forced to either sit and wait for 40 minutes to maybe get a match on an aus server, or endure the constant match disconnects during firefights in checkpoint or BG. Both of these issues were not present during season 2.

I just want to specify, the ONLY servers that are not constantly above 200 ping are Aus, CN and NA. I cant even pick any of the other servers because the game wont let me now. CN and NA presents a minimum ping of 180ms if I'm lucky, if not then I get disconnected over and over again.

Yo peeps,

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How are they doing it? when i try to wiggle i miss every shot and my fingers cramp arround my mouse (have leaning on my mouse). Have they binded leaning on a and d? or even foot pedals?

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Why are accounts without EFT not eligible? This is a huge misstep to attract a ton of new players with a free weekend event and not be able to convert that traffic with this promo.

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