Showdown: High vs. Low Ping Player

Who has the advantage? The low, or the high ping player? And do high ping players really eat bullets for breakfast?

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[flashmeet]

"SHOOT FIRST AND DIE FIRST " only "High Pings" will understand =)

[NonsensicalSpudz]

I always found consoles not displaying ping, kind of strange

[Peccath]

I just wish there was a kill cam option to see how you got killed from the enemy's point of view. If the game had a demo/battlerecorder, that would be easy to implement...

[acezero]

So that's why I keep getting shot around corners...

[richardggeorge]

As an Australian we don't have enough players of older games like bfbc2 or bf3 to run a decent amount of players so we are forced to use USA based servicers and typically get pings in 200-250 range which is annoying!

[PsyMongazoid]

Oh man, it's so good to have a German mind explaining this; everything perfectly clear and logical.

[SONNENKVLT]

Whoever that says that high ping gives you advantage is because they never experienced what it feels like to play with high ping.

[ericsbuds]

this is one of your best investigative videos yet thanks man

[gunjyguylyricshiphop]

explains why sometimes i can get a snipe on a moving target they will react but no hitmarker

[mattyyttam]

Been saying this for a while now but no one believed me...bf benefits aggressive play, if your the high or low pinger if your the one to round a corner you'll have an advantage.
The problem is people who feel victimized because they have high/low ping, since they feel disadvantaged they tend to play defensively meaning they will wait for another player to round a corner on them and they will more than likely die.

[SDGolfGuy]

Another well done video Chris, much thanks again.

[GMNG_NNJ]

100ms ping tests = Australian Internet.

[spera]

Higher ping is almost always a huge disadvantage.

[tehhaldiniho]

i bet you'd have worse results with a full 64 player server like you said with the server fps been low.

[rock-steady-yeti]

We should just start a campaign to get Chris to be our official spokes person for the players of BF games. Group behind him and hold out on pre oder until our list of issues are addressed. I plan to hold off on Battlefront until I see real PC footage from non DICE people playing the game.

[iota-]

it's not just about the server but also about the connection, for example, on average the lowest ping you will ever get in italy with a standard connection(not talking of bf servers, but pingtests and stuff) can't be lower than 25 ms, even if the server is 200 meters from you, it just sucks that much, so you'll understand that a slightly worse connection means that you can't play in servers outside your country with those limitations, as you'll most likely get over 75 ms.

this all without even taking in account ping fluctuation and packet loss, aside from bandwidth.

[scytheman_]

Glad you made this video. Cleared up some misconceptions myself and others had about high ping players. I still think it's up to DICE to limit pings, yet I doubt they'll do much anyways.

[Manzanita]

Any chance you would be willing to re-do this testing for PUBG?

thanks for all the great vids!

[notexactlyrocketscience]

ES owes you for this crucial lesson in game design. If only the senior management at EA had the IQ to actually understand what you're saying. But they don't and Kotick, even if he understood this lesson, wouldn't care. He puts profit above quality.

[xBryce]

Would be interesting to see simultaneous recordings 8 up on the screen synched to show what each of the different players see at the same exact time.