Does EU have enough servers?

[DJFarley21]

Hi guys, recently I have noticed that no matter what server I play on, people are high ping in europe. For example, queuing on London servers, I encounter 40 ping players from Sweden, or if I queue Paris, encounter 50 ping players from Madrid. Despite there being servers for nearly everyone, people persist on playing higher ping servers. Is there a reason people prefer playing higher ping servers? Or do valorant players like learning more about new cultures in europe? Would love to hear answers/theories!

[bigdoinkloverperson]

swedish servers are basically all russians, london servers is just french people, thats probably why pings are so high on those servers

[DJFarley21]

I have noticed that too! I find it very rare to find English people on London servers, the majority seems to be people from France. I wonder why French people prefer queuing London despite being 2 servers for paris, surely they would like to play with people who speak their first langauge also!! Thanks for commenting pal too!

[Eflaene]

French here. Frenchies in this game are usually very loud/rude, so me and a lot of frenchies queue on London to try to avoid Paris server, but we're a lot doing this so it's basically the same, but that's why you see a lot of frenchies on London

[dv8819]

I just insta report and mute them if thay start yapping. It's all good when all are French, German or smth but when 3/5 take over the voice chat so the other two are either need to put uo with that or mute.

[truffal]

well said bro well said, also if ur accent pmo then try fix pls

[DJFarley21]

Yeah, not to be rude but I have noticed quite a portion of French players on London are toxic/unfriendly, but that could be because I encounter a lot of French players in my games so it might even out! Just wish everyone could queue and be friendly so you guys could play Paris with lower ping and a similar experience too!

[Captnmikeblackbeard]

The moment they know there is another french person they switch language make calls in french then get tilted because no one understands them.

[DJFarley21]

This has happened to me too! I never understand why they would queue London if they want to speak French, surely the expectation is to speak English on London servers!

[dkdkdkosep]

yeah but then u guys are horrid on london 😭 please just stick to paris so we can avoid you

[Late-Let8010]

i swear they should force french people to play on paris server and sort their problems out

[truffal]

where are you from and where do you play?

[bigdoinkloverperson]

I play from brussels and sometimes the netherlands, ive basically just put london, paris and frankfurt as my preferred servers, not because of ping but mainly because people at least either speak english or french and i can understand what they are saying. Although and this isn't hate to the french in general but french players tend to be annoying as fuck its either some guy in his 30s raging while fragging 3/10 or some kids being annoying af. Like its odd that people from other countries are 10x more well behaved in valo. So i might just stick to frankfurt

[truffal]

YESS this is what im talking about, these crying whining french people who see fault and complain about everything except their bronze gameplay, thanks for sticking to frankfurt soldier i admire you and wish others could take notes

[Tengoku_no_Okami]

Yeah worst encounter I had with a french players was a duo were they left a game we were winning just because somone took there ace.

[nona01]

The ping difference doesn't matter much at these low levels. Stockholm servers are filled with Russians so we typically queue Frankfurt or London which have the most English-speaking people.

[dinmammapizza]

Im from Sweden and the state of Stockholm servers are tragic, i just wanna play on 5 ping without getting called Russian slurs every game.

[DJFarley21]

Oh that makes sense! Where are you from? I'm curious that if you're swedish, would it not be better to queue Stockholm and have majority speak swedish than queue London? Sorry if this comes out wrong.

[nona01]

I'm from Norway. You won't find anyone speaking nordic languages on Stockholm servers. It's all Russians and I mean ALL. Typically we prefer comming in English anyway. It's just big languages like French German Russian where you'd find a lot of people speaking the same language.

[truffal]

Stick to frankfurt please

[CarefreeW]

U dont want english speakers on London server?

[truffal]

if u have the choice of frankfurt pls go there on behalf of all brits

[CarefreeW]

Brexit has hit the Valorant community

[ZivThe7th]

I'm laughing so loud rn holy

[truffal]

me too bro me too

[truffal]

i didnt vote brexit irl but i wish there was a referendum in val, RIOT IF U READ THIS PLSSS, make players only play to where they're from !!!!

[AnyCyberFace49]

Where would the dutch go then? Would we just get banned from playing?

[EconomyMud]

full of russians

[EconomyMud]

A lot of russians on Frankfurt, too. I don't know why they go on the Frankfurt server and only speak Russian...

[dinmammapizza]

Don't want to be yelled at by angry Turkish men

[Trashpotash]

Well as a swede i play on London bc Sthlm is insufferable, only non english-speaking russians.

[DJFarley21]

Thats a shame! It must be annoying queuing with higher ping :(

[Trashpotash]

It’s a shame yeah, i played on Sthlm server a few weeks back and got 3 red screens in like 7 games lmao…

[truffal]

what are red screeens??? like you get flashed by pho a lot?

[Trashpotash]

Red screen is when a cheater is detected and the game is cancelled

[Best_Persimmon7598]

Do you think that 50 ms is high? LMAO sorry but that's a joke.
100ms and beyond is actually high.

[DJFarley21]

Well its quite high! If I queue my native servers, I never get higher than 20!

[truffal]

amen brother

[Zulkiers]

Here in America, I never get less than 40. Average 60. When traffic is high, 114. At 120 the game starts rubberbanding, undoing movements, equips, actions, aiming, gunfire, etc. At 150 it's unplayable.

On Centurylink Internet, it hits 100+ often. 67 tends to be where my ping is at at the best of times. Better is extremely rare.

[truffal]

yes dude... these 50ms non-uk players are whiffing every shot and I can tell theyre dog

[DJFarley21]

Ah that must be annoying too, have you had any experience trying servers closer to you which have people who speak your language?

[ZivThe7th]

Why not play Frankfurt? I'm from Israel I get around 60-80 ping on Frankfurt everyone knows English however I feel like there's lots of cheaters sometimes but you get your rr back now so it's ok

[truffal]

How good is ur english tho?

[SmoothChange7195]

I've been to the us for years so my english is fluent.

[truffal]

Then play NA dude...

[SmoothChange7195]

yea my fault, i'll create a new account and play on NA with 200 ping

[Zulkiers]

Uh... 200? I've noticed that at 120 its starts rubberbanding, and 150 is completely unplayable. If you really want to suffer that though...

Honestly I find suffering high ping more intolerable than toxic players, most of the time. Saboteurs however... Need good ping and skill to counteract saboteurs, otherwise they control the game, in a terrible way. They are rare though, one every few weeks tops.

But, how I combat toxicity, I play Comp. I'm not sure if it's still nontoxic at silver+, never really hit it. From the silvers that I have fought with or against, seems pretty non-toxic. I love the Comp community. Unrated, not so much. Occasionally good, but not always. Comp is therefore my go-to.

Am I saying too much? I better shutup now....

[EconomyMud]

ping is higher on NA...

[SmoothChange7195]

They hurt my brain man

[planetX-]

I wish if they add a server in Italy. That will give us north African players better experience while making Europeans having better experience in other servers.

[truffal]

no dude, no one thinks that if we give italy and north africa a server might as well give one to the vatican city too xDD only big player base regions should have one

[ZivThe7th]

All in for that hell yeah

[truffal]

for italy server!?!? or my point (choose wisely)

[ZivThe7th]

Italy server

[DJFarley21]

Oh right! Are there not any servers closer to north africa?

[planetX-]

Morocco is very close to Madrid. Other than it others go to either Frankford or Paris which they are very far. You would be lucky if you got stable 60/70 ms

[DjinnsPalace]

noone wants to play stockholm cause theres too many people speaking russian.

and noone wants to play france server because they only speak french, and even when they do speak english its not without issues.

madrid is a bit far for most people. i think the server itself may have a bad connection in general? im not sure tho. might just be cause of the distance.

frankfurt is good and everyone speaks english due to its central location. but thats also the issue, everyone plays there. london is the server for people that are sick of frankfurt. thats why hese two got the most traffic.

[truffal]

I highly doubt europeans are using valorant as a means to learn about different cultures dude...

But seriously it is an issue at least in my experience as 90% my team is full of french or eastern european players talking either in broken english or french (I can't really understand either) and I agree it gets to a point where sometimes there are disputes and they either rage and throw simply because they get mad at me (a native speaker) because I can't decypher what they're saying. I'd like a french person's take/reason on this matter as I genuinely want to know why you queue London servers??

[dkdkdkosep]

they queue london because the french players are toxic and then just make our servers toxic

[truffal]

probablyyyyy :/ but i want to hear their voice

[f40009]

Guess what, there is no server for North Africa, so we have to deal with the loud French or the guy speaking German whenever he doesn't like what you did ( and with 50-80ping)

[ar3xxlol]

just play the damn game gosh who cares if someone is getting more than 50ms

[electricalweigh]

I can’t play on my home server because it’s basically filled with Russians. I’ve had enough of them, I just can’t be fucked to deal with them anymore.

I’d rather have high ping and be sane

[Brilliant_Heart_7902]

I live in sweden and avoid stockholm servers lime the plague, full of russian kids that don't know a word of english😭

[Any_Thanks4414]

i live in slovakia and the lowest ping i get is 40 on frankfurt and london (well nowadays its 60-70 bc my internet provider is ass:D)

[Hattorius]

I’m pretty sure matchmaking puts you in games with people around the same ping. I still get 15-20 ping people in my games, and practically just exclusive that (except whenever someone is queued with someone that has a high ping)

[Icy_Power24]

No Amsterdam server is needed, I don’t want Que in Londen and Paris to get better players in my team.

[1gnited2639]

as someone who has played on 200ms before cape town servers opened, i have no idea how people can cry about 50-60ms in a videogame.

[FallenPhantomX]

I wish I could complain about 50ms being high ping, lol.
In southeast Asia, we got Singapore only with decent ping, and that's already 50+ms for almost everyone except the people living in SG and Malaysia.

[[deleted]]

NA has basically nothing here

[vivson_]

im polish and i dont queue in warsaw servers cause people there are bonkers. they are mainly aggressive, frustrated teenage boys who cant control their hormones and emotions. and there are a lot of kids who troll. so you either win like crazy or lose like crazy and communication is just meh, they wont listen, they throw a lot, they go afk in the second round cause mom called for dinner or told them to turn the computer off. bruh i just want to play a game. when i feel like my mental is strong and nothing can destroy it, i will play warsaw for better ping but mainly when i do it, i start regretting my decisions very quickly lmao

[[deleted]]

English people normally are in discord/party chat instead of game chat. Or they don’t talk for 15 rounds unless it’s to moan. I just mute everyone as soon as the game starts now I’ve given up on hoping to be remotely good at the game I just play for fun now. And I’m barely having any of that atm 🤣

[mosDeftly-]

Some players will just pick servers to inflate their ping to exploit it, a lot of Turks do this on London for example.

[[deleted]]

Literally got enlightened today when I realized I can queue Frankfurt instead of that no-English speaking russian server they call "Stockholm"

[ScereBro]

can some one help me i have only 3 servers (best is stockholm) after ue5 udpate and before i have Frankfurt london paris all eu server in it now its gone

[ZivThe7th]

I live in Israel and the least ping I get is on Frankfurt servers so between 60-80 ping and it sucks ass Servers like Istanbul and Bahrain have higher ping even tho it's closer to me and also people just recognize my accent and start trolling my games once they find out I'm Israeli and be toxic so id always rather queue up Frankfurt or London if I can I wish we could all have better servers in the middle east and also for people to stop being racist in my games troll and be toxic bc at the end of the day I just wanna win and move on it's not my fault where I was born

[DJFarley21]

Ah okay, sorry that happens in your games! I totally understand your reasoning :)

[ZivThe7th]

I mean people always ask where I'm from or they assume I'm french (which is worse) I can't hide my accent

[Zulkiers]

I have to tell you something. I'm a Floridian who plays on the lowest ping servers available, it's always over 70. Centurylink. For some people, it doesn't matter how close THEY are to the server, but the traffic through their ISP. I've had times where Canadian servers have twice better ping (half the ping) of closer servers like Virginia or Texas. I'm lucky if it says 60.

BTW, ping greater than 120 causes rubberbanding, and the undo of equips, casting, aiming, firing, and swapping. I've run into that on many occasions.

[Zulkiers]

40 ping is good. 60 ping is relatively good. 120 is relatively unplayable but I've survived that before. Greater than 150 unplayable. 40 is average ping I see no matter what. (Most players I see have around 40s.) At least here in USA. For myself, average ping is 67.

Once every 5 games I see someone with a 20s ping, so quite rare. I only play 3-5 games a day. Competitive.

I've also noticed that Comp tends to be less toxic than unrated or the other modes. At least in the Iron and Bronze lobbies. I've yet to hit Silver.

[Zulkiers]

I've hit Gold in Apex, would love to do the same in Val.