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5/23/2017 4:52:31 AM
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Crucible connection, how the hell does it work?
This is roughly my experience in the crucible and trials right now bungie, please anyone take a look and spread this around, hell comment your experiences if you have any of these problems too everyone, I'm curious to know if others feel as I do and if anyone else wants this to change in D2.
I don't know if I'm green bar or red bar. Game says I'm green and someone else is red, and I ask them about that and they say they are green as well as me. What do I trust? Do I trust that I'm not lagging? If one person on the enemy team is lagging, is it me lagging to them or them lagging to me?
I have to connect to 11 other people every game, then the only info the game gives on my connection is that I'm green, yellow or red bar. But which is it? Am I green for one person but red for someone else? Am I laggy or not? The game doesn't know or if it does it won't tell me so how can I know whether to stop playing or not until I get messages telling me to leave PvP in manners worse than that? Can I see my ping? No. Can I tell if my "green bar connection" is merely my connection to the servers or if it's my connection to the lobby as a whole? No. See the problem here? Bungie seem too scared to give us any information on how our connection status is. It's no wonder we get kicked without knowing why, the game doesn't really tell us and now I wonder if the game even know why we get kicked.
If we can get this type of discussion and these questions trending, then maybe we'll get a response from someone that hopefully isn't just the average, "I'm sorry you're having these problems with our game, but unfortunately we can't really help"
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Edited by RAIST5150: 5/23/2017 10:26:31 PMIDK if we ever got an official answer on whether it represents latency from you to that player and back or that player's latency to the current host, which can migrate as often as every two minutes. I was very fortunate to be central to the east coast, so I rarely if ever saw really nasty matchups... I could go all the way to Montreal to the north, Miami to the south, and out into most the Central time zone and still be under 70ms to just about everyone. If you are seeing red to them while they see green when they look at you (or vice-verse), then there may be a routing issue in play. Either one of you is not forwarding the UDP broadcast properly, or something along the route your ISP is assigning is having issues (they could take a different route than you take, as each of your ISP's would assign the path independently based on their BGP data or other routing protocol in play). The key things that need to be in play from your end though are <preferably> wired over wireless connection, properly opened/forwarded UDP ports, responsive DNS (it's a console thing... they don't deal well with hinky DNS--sometimes disabling IPv6 at the router clears up some issues), and that the routes your ISP are assigning are not running into peering issues in between that may result in congestion or packet loss. After that, the only thing Bungie is really responsible for is the matchmaking---which sadly seems to not always do a good job of matching the latency profiles for some people.
