nferguzl Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Is there a way other than drawing areas or radius around home location to connect to game servers? Meaning if we can ping the servers in the ping heatmap, can't we choose those same servers in the geofilter? I ask because I see some servers in the ping heatmap that are missing from the geo-filter when connecting to vanguard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted January 11, 2022 Administrators Share Posted January 11, 2022 You can use Ping Assist with the location in the ocean so it just goes off ping. Ping Heatmap will ping the servers regardless if they're able to be played on or not, if the server is full for example then it may not show on the Geo-Filter. Does it happen during all times of the day? What servers is it specifically you're having trouble with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nferguzl Posted January 12, 2022 Author Share Posted January 12, 2022 I’m trying to connect to the Miami server which gives in my case the best ping. But no matter which method I use ie. ping assist with location in the ocean, or polygon mode, or setting my home on top of the server, it takes sometimes 3-6 minutes to connect to a lobby. Is there a way to speed this up? That’s why i wanted another server option to speed the time it takes to get into these lobbies. In the ping heatmap there is a vanguard server (138.199.3.69) which gives me the second best ping but if I draw an area around it, it never gets found. Please advise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netduma Liam Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 10 hours ago, nferguzl said: I’m trying to connect to the Miami server which gives in my case the best ping. But no matter which method I use ie. ping assist with location in the ocean, or polygon mode, or setting my home on top of the server, it takes sometimes 3-6 minutes to connect to a lobby. Is there a way to speed this up? That’s why i wanted another server option to speed the time it takes to get into these lobbies. In the ping heatmap there is a vanguard server (138.199.3.69) which gives me the second best ping but if I draw an area around it, it never gets found. Please advise. 3-6 minutes isn't too unreasonable of a wait time considering you're limiting your search to just one server. You could as you mention also raise the ping assist value to cover your second best ping server. Perhaps also try enabling 'Fast search' from the three-line menu and see if this speeds up the search times? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nferguzl Posted January 12, 2022 Author Share Posted January 12, 2022 If I raise the ping assist or enable fast search my ping goes from 70 all the way to 90 and upwards. Lowest ping servers in the ping heatmap for me show 60 and 74. When I hop in the game the 60 one becomes 70-80. But I never see a connection to the second server. As I’ve already said it never appears in the geofilter map, but only pings in the heatmap. @Netduma Liam can you try a connection to the this server 138.199.3.69? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted January 12, 2022 Administrators Share Posted January 12, 2022 19 minutes ago, nferguzl said: If I raise the ping assist or enable fast search my ping goes from 70 all the way to 90 and upwards. Lowest ping servers in the ping heatmap for me show 60 and 74. When I hop in the game the 60 one becomes 70-80. But I never see a connection to the second server. As I’ve already said it never appears in the geofilter map, but only pings in the heatmap. @Netduma Liam can you try a connection to the this server 138.199.3.69? If you manually ping the server it will fail as game servers don't respond to traditional pings so there is no way to tell if it is connectable other than trying to connect to it on the Geo-Filter. If you disable the Geo-Filter, you'll get faster games of course but does that ever put you on the Miami server? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nferguzl Posted January 12, 2022 Author Share Posted January 12, 2022 It will ocasionally connect to Miami but I can really tell the difference between 100 and 60 ping. What I’m asking you guys to do is to verify if you can connect to that server using the geo-filter. Or if not possible why does it appear in the ping heatmap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted January 12, 2022 Administrators Share Posted January 12, 2022 What is your ping usually to Miami? Are you seeing simply by raising Ping Assist that your ping to the same server goes up or it connects you to servers that are higher ping? I don't have Vanguard available at the moment to test this, we're also based in the UK so would take longer to try and force it than you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nferguzl Posted January 12, 2022 Author Share Posted January 12, 2022 I checked and warzone has the same servers and it’s free. You guys can try connecting with warzone. You can also see if it appears in the geofilter, because when I draw the area it never shows up. You don’t even have to connect to the server; when you start the game it should show it in the geofilter. The Miami server always gives me the best ping/experience 70ms and it doesn’t go up. If I connect to other servers, ping is 90 and upwards which takes away the joy from the gaming experience. Well and that server I want to connect who knows what ping it will result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted January 12, 2022 Administrators Share Posted January 12, 2022 Servers will not always appear in your radius when all the servers are pinged initially. Try this: Quit the application/game/client completely Remove device from the Geo-Filter Give PC PlayStation Device Type in the Device Manager (if on PC) Resync from the Geo-Filter Map menu Re-add the device to the Geo-Filter with the manual option Set up the Geo-Filter how you like Wait 2 minutes Boot up application/game/client Then see if it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nferguzl Posted January 12, 2022 Author Share Posted January 12, 2022 Thanks Fraser but I have already done those steps. Everything works it’s just this server which doesn’t show up. All I’m asking is for you to verify if this is the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted January 12, 2022 Administrators Share Posted January 12, 2022 52 minutes ago, nferguzl said: Thanks Fraser but I have already done those steps. Everything works it’s just this server which doesn’t show up. All I’m asking is for you to verify if this is the case. I can do that but you may need to wait until tomorrow as I don't have it installed currently on my PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nferguzl Posted January 12, 2022 Author Share Posted January 12, 2022 No problem I'll wait. Thanks for the great costumer service. Netduma Fraser 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nferguzl Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 @Netduma FraserDon't worry I was able to find the missing server. The ping heatmap is just misplacing its location. Placing the home location in the ocean and tweaking the ping assist to 75 and looking at the geo-filter auto-ping when connecting to servers, I was able to locate an IP 138.199.3.xx in atlanta. So that server is just misplaced in the ping heatmap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netduma Liam Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Nice, thanks for letting us know! I'll pass this on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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