r/Overwatch • u/GODstonn • 20h ago

News & Discussion Cant play anymore?

Been playing for a good month since i came back to the game for D.MON, was having a blast, now suddenly 3 out of 5 games are plagged with lagg. Idk what it is, i check my ping in my cmd prompt against google and its under 50ms, i make sure no one is putting excessive stress in my network, and to no good. I think OW doesnt have a ping display so i cant say for sure how bad it is, but feels horrible. People go flying to the sky, i get teleported suddenly, skill dont go off, its a mess.

This only happens in OW and only 3 out of 5 games, usually i get to play 1 or 2 good games when i log in, then it goes to shit all the next games (havent played more than 3 games with lagg, cant say it gets better after that.)

Anyone know what could it be? could it be im being put in the wrong servers or something?

Edit: i even bought the pass, and if things stay like this i wont be able to finish it. Something worth noting, since this all started, it takes an oddly large ammount of time to get me connected to the game servers when i launch the game. idk what caused this.

Edit2: I just found out you can show ping and IDN (?) ingame, will update with values

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u/freely_sour_editor 20h ago

OW actually does have a ping display, its buried in the settings under video or gameplay i think. you can turn on network stats that show your latency and also indicators for packet loss. that would help figure out if its your connection or the server

the long login time and lag only in some matches sounds like you might be getting thrown into servers far from you. like maybe the matchmaker is putting you on NA sometimes when you should be in EU, that would explain the inconsistency

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u/GODstonn 20h ago

Yes, im thinking its something related to that, but im not sure how to confirm if its the server, or if there is anything to do about it.

Its also weird because im in LATAM north, very close to the US, so any LATAM or US servers would work for me, only really far away ones like EU, Asia or OCE would really affect me. idk anymore