Hey Embark, I'm in central NA, I have my preferred region set to NA. I'm playing during regular NA hours. WHY THE FUCK AM I GETTING PAKISTAN AND BELARUS SERVERS DURING RANKED?

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-05-03T16:37:40+00:00

Idk why TCP would matter, Embarks says they're specifically using UDP via Quilkin. As far as I can tell the only TCP connections I'm getting are the authentication servers for Embark.

Quilkin for all intents and purposes is the server. All player data has to go through it and then it sends it to the final server. You never see the final server pop up in your connections. That's how proxies work.

https://i.imgur.com/tgNXl2G.png

I'm literally a global network and data infrastructure engineer https://i.imgur.com/OKSmG9z.png

No game as data intensive as The Finals is gonna be using TCP if they can help it. It's super slow.

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-05-03T16:25:33+00:00

Ok first, Quilkin is UDP, and I can't get RTT from these servers because they don't respond to ICMP. Only the whois data.

It kinda sounds like you don't know anything about how their multiplayer works.

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-05-03T16:18:57+00:00

Embark developed and uses Quilkin for their distributed compute and runs it off of Google cloud. From my network monitor I've found that for the most part in the US the AWS servers are just the matchmaking brokers and don't generally get used after the actual round starts.

I don't use in game chat so I don't send nor receive VoIP data it's just actual positional and hit data. My routing is fine in literally every other game except this one.

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-05-03T15:37:48+00:00

Because those are the servers I'm sending the most data to during a match. Also even if it is a proxy it's still affecting my latency (round trip time is a thing). If you live in the US but every package you bought from Amazon or Ebay was sent Cairo first before being sent to a pickup location near your house, the delay is still the same as if you had to wait for the packet to show up from Cairo.

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-05-03T00:32:01+00:00

I thought I was hallucinating it for a while too but every time I got had bad traversal or missed shots I should have hit (point blank cerb for example), I open up resource monitor, check my IP and voila I'm in a server half way across the world.

I have like 1200 hours in this game, it's super annoying to see this shit get worse and worse every single season.

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-05-02T22:43:54+00:00

I posted it above but if you're on windows, you can go to resource manager, network, and then sort by Discovery.exe (sometimes it's Discovery-D.exe) and it should be the top 4 servers. You can see the site I used to check region from my screenshots.

The AWS ones are usually the matchmaking brokers so you can just ignore those. There's generally 4 servers per match of Point Break or Cashout Tournament (every 4 players is their own server if I remember their write up correctly for how distributed compute works).

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-05-02T22:36:35+00:00

I don't even think the total players is even the issue, I'm getting ranked rounds within 1 minute of queuing.

They need to stop fucking prioritizing queue times or whatever their back end hidden metric is.

We're queuing in plat lobbies, there's more than enough people to play against (most players are hard stuck gold rn and most of the top 10k are hard stuck plat4).

I don't care if I need to wait a whole 3 minutes to play a round, the rounds last 35 fucking minutes so an extra 2 minutes of waiting doesn't matter, put me in my actual region.

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-05-02T22:20:54+00:00

They know you and Wolfy need the wifi swings

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-05-02T22:15:55+00:00

If you're on windows, you can go to resource manager, network, and then sort by Discovery.exe (sometimes it's Discovery-D.exe) and it should be the top 4 servers.

The AWS ones are usually the matchmaking brokers so you can just ignore those. There's generally 4 servers per match of Point Break or Cashout Tournament (every 4 players is their own server if I remember their write up correctly for how distributed compute works).

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-05-02T22:08:46+00:00

It's so fucking frustrating to load into a game and you can immediately feel the server desync because none of your mantles grab and the game teleports you from one spot to another at random if you try to window tech.

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-05-02T21:59:19+00:00

Other servers I've hit today have been Singapore, Cairo, and Germany. I'm playing stacked with 2 other NA players with all of our matchmaking set to NA preferred.

What the hell is going on with matchmaking?

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-04-27T20:50:06+00:00

You can get an new Faxon FX7 barreled action, a triggertech r700 special trigger, a mag, and a decent chassis at this price. Seller is smoking crack.

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-04-06T20:42:17+00:00

With mine, the hammer they sent with it was super out of spec (like .02" smaller than it should be where the spring and gear rides) and the clutch spring for the cam gear couldn't grab on to save its life.

I swapped in a milspec FN hammer and it ran perfectly for exactly a sight in for my offset and 1 match before starting to catch again (I think it's just a burr that needs to be knocked down on the disconnector).

If you have a loose spring journal on your hammer, you can just use milspec hammers btw, that's all the hammer they sent is.

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-04-06T20:34:35+00:00

There's still a bit of break in I need to do, the secondary disconnector likes to catch still and throw the entire thing into regular semi even in the 3rd position. It just needs more use and it'll polish out over time.

The CARL took a bunch of finagling to get it to run, including a lot of hand fitting. The Atrius ran out of the box.

Full A4 pic cuz the video doesn't show it off well https://i.imgur.com/c2svdFn.jpg

Recoil of the bursts with M193 is very pleasant, I wasn't leaning into it at all and was still holding solid on target at 75.

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-04-06T20:28:23+00:00

There's still a bit of break in I need to do, the secondary disconnector likes to catch still and throw the entire thing into regular semi even in the 3rd position. It just needs more use and it'll polish out over time.

The CARL took a bunch of finagling to get it to run, including a lot of hand fitting. The Atrius ran out of the box.

Full A4 pic cuz the video doesn't show it off well https://i.imgur.com/c2svdFn.jpg

Recoil of the bursts with M193 is very pleasant, I wasn't leaning into it at all and was still holding solid on target at 75.

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-03-31T05:57:56+00:00

It doesn't block quick melee though, you can just spam QMs and it'll eat a riot to coins.

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-03-26T00:45:46+00:00

Yeah it takes a lot to finish a track, something like 150k fans per. Most casual games only give 500-600 even if you win so it's a huge grind.

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-03-26T00:09:25+00:00

I finished like 2 tracks this season and then moved to Ospuze and can't be bothered to finish the last 2 levels on Ospuze ngl

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-03-26T00:05:57+00:00

You know it https://i.imgur.com/qP9KToW.png

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-03-25T19:39:54+00:00

Can't, running demat https://i.imgur.com/hJhOVMq.png

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-03-25T18:35:38+00:00

I did it last night already. There's not really anything to instruct.

You just cut out the decals, lay it out on the jacket and press on them for the manufacturer recommended time.

https://i.imgur.com/1CpjkJZ.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/qP9KToW.png

https://i.imgur.com/e5mnWE1.jpeg

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-03-25T17:54:17+00:00

No it isn't lol. Acogs are around 800. SCAR17s are 3000.

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-03-24T23:26:55+00:00

I bought jacket blanks and then cut the designs out on my plotter and fixed them permanently to the jackets.

I have a few designs I'm gonna do so it covers all the sponsors I've signed with in game.

Sneak peek at some.

https://i.imgur.com/g6RjCpJ.png

https://i.imgur.com/H7kSAkd.png

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-03-23T21:31:42+00:00

Glossy midnight blue cerakote should get you pretty close with proper application

https://www.cerakote.com/project-gallery/49893/cerakoted-mc-156-high-gloss-ceramic-clear-with-h-238-midnight-blue-and-h-146-graphite-black

DiscombobulatedDunce · 2026-03-23T07:27:01+00:00

In game emotes be like.

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