First of all, i am not sure if its the correct place to post here so if its not then mods please move it to the appropriate section.
Now coming to the point, i keep getting into arguments with friends who try to "convince" me that play xyz game multiplayer, i ask them what pings they get from Pakistan and reply is ~200ms and my answer is always NO.
Thing is, no matter how good or popular some multiplayer game is if i can't get ping ~100ms or lower then its a no from me. They try to convince me that they don't feel lag or the game has excellent lag compensation but my answer will still be no if the game is FPS. Playing FPS on high pings is a HUGE disadvantage for you whether you acknowledge this or not, you are gimped by it to a huge extent against someone who got ~50ms.
Look at it this way, if your ping is 200ms and someone else has 50ms then you are receiving 5 updates from server per second and the other guy is receiving 20 updates from server, he is receiving 4 TIMES more updates so he can react much better to situation then you can. So unless you specifically want to play a gimped game for whatever reason then please go ahead, its simply not my passion. I would rather enjoy playing some single player game on my 4k display.
Same goes to different genre's, if you play MMO's like wow then its ok as long as you are doing PVE content but jumping into pvp (player vs player) and the same gimping comes into play. Few genres like RTS doesn't affect it that much so they are still playable.
So let's hear it, are you ok playing FPS games at 150ms+ pings?
Now coming to the point, i keep getting into arguments with friends who try to "convince" me that play xyz game multiplayer, i ask them what pings they get from Pakistan and reply is ~200ms and my answer is always NO.
Thing is, no matter how good or popular some multiplayer game is if i can't get ping ~100ms or lower then its a no from me. They try to convince me that they don't feel lag or the game has excellent lag compensation but my answer will still be no if the game is FPS. Playing FPS on high pings is a HUGE disadvantage for you whether you acknowledge this or not, you are gimped by it to a huge extent against someone who got ~50ms.
Look at it this way, if your ping is 200ms and someone else has 50ms then you are receiving 5 updates from server per second and the other guy is receiving 20 updates from server, he is receiving 4 TIMES more updates so he can react much better to situation then you can. So unless you specifically want to play a gimped game for whatever reason then please go ahead, its simply not my passion. I would rather enjoy playing some single player game on my 4k display.
Same goes to different genre's, if you play MMO's like wow then its ok as long as you are doing PVE content but jumping into pvp (player vs player) and the same gimping comes into play. Few genres like RTS doesn't affect it that much so they are still playable.
So let's hear it, are you ok playing FPS games at 150ms+ pings?
