Ping. What class to avoid at certain pings? What's your experiences?

[Thomek]

I know I can hardly do very well if my ping is 70+ as a Ninja. Blocking, movement and hits become very unpredictable.

Less than 60 is OK for 2 handers I think. Archers and shielders and horsemen might have a different story though.

I think it belongs in the newbie section, cause it's really important to know what playstyles are sustainable for your ping. (Like, it might not be you, but your ping!)

What's your experiences?

[Tristan]

Would love to give some advice, but really my experience is that when everything is normal (around 40) everything is ok.
When I go outside EU things get bad (100+). At times things are out of wack as well on EU4 (80+ on its bad days).

[Nogar]

i play with 190 ping cause i live far away and i dont see any problem playing with 2h
just kiddin its hard as hell but i get some lucky kills
but some people are just too bad and i can kill them

[Formless]

The more ping I get the longer weapon I grab, that seems to work well.

[ShinySpoons]

Long ass, spammable weapon for 150+ ping. Or some sort of ranged, though if they're dodging you might as well shoot randomly as well.

I can't 1v1 with my shielder with 100+ ping, people just get around me when I think they're in front. Bigger battles are fine as they're clusterfucks anyway.

Under 80ish ping is best for a manual blocker, anything over then high agi builds will wreck you as the you'll be hit before the animation finishes on your screen.

Cav is fine with high ping as long as you're aware of how much to compensate for the increased time it takes for a swing/stab to hit.

[Ganon]

Heh i get 70 ping at best, so i went for str builds which are slow and can one/twoshot people or crush through blocks if necessary. Blocking is possible but it's problematic vs very fast weapons. Then on the official servers i get 100 ping which makes it unplayable.

[Socrates]

For me I can manual block fine under 100 ping. Anything over I do terrible. When I played on EU I rolled as a Shielder, because they didn't need to manual block so you could actually fight a little easier with the lag. Also range works well for high pings as it doesn't affect much from ping.

[Nogar]

Yea range is fine for high ping
i can also manual block well but if a person start using fancy tricks its almost impossible to change the way i am blocking to block the other direction
190 ping for NA and 250 ping for EU so i stay away from EU
my main is currently a shielder with warhammer str based and i play better than many people

[Siiem]

High ping = shield is usually your friend, but if you're like me you get a rash for donning a shield.

[Toffi]

Cav is fine with high ping as long as you're aware of how much to compensate for the increased time it takes for a swing/stab to hit.

Well I'm playing cavalry, come from germany and got these stats recently on the NA server:

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Ping was at about 150.

It's still possible to be top scorer if you avoid cav vs. cav fights and if you try to stab the enemy in a straight line, not if they are moving left or right!

[RandomDude]

for me it's number of players on a server rather than ping

i can even chamber block on na servers with 120-150+ ping if my comp isnt frame lagging

a lot of the time this isnt the case though and if it's a full or near full server it's hard for me to even manual block - forget about trying if they have an agi build, specially 1h's

i think i usually have around 70 ping or less on eu servers and eu1/2/3/5/6 tend to be nicer for my comp than the others

because of my sucky comp i find playing cav impossible too

[Thomek]

Dude..

play dx7 everything except resolution to minimum. It's ugly, but a stable 60fps is worth it..

Playing on a 2y old laptop here.. And yes my ping goes up from 55 to 70ish when the server is full. I also think it's the server though, because it goes up for everyone i know too.

[RandomDude]

Dude..

play dx7 everything except resolution to minimum. It's ugly, but a stable 60fps is worth it..

Playing on a 2y old laptop here.. And yes my ping goes up from 55 to 70ish when the server is full. I also think it's the server though, because it goes up for everyone i know too.

lol and what makes u think i dont do that already???

my mighty Geforce 6800 takes 3-4 minutes to load warband on a good day and 5-10+ on a bad one.

It takes me about 1 full round to switch from windowned to full screen for the first time + spawn too.

[Thomek]

lol alright.. just dunno if all people really squeeze their comps for cRPG.. I think it's kinda important to stay competetive :-)

[ShinySpoons]

I use to play with 20fps, lowest settings possible. Manual blocking absolutely impossible, which was why I played cav and just lanced people int he back of the head. Moment I got a new computer...I could block! :O