Australians, do we play in EU or US?

Most big games like defiance have oceanic servers for Australia and nearby countries, because everybody knows we get terrible connections out to standard EU AND US server areas..

Seeing a lack of Oceanic options I assume - as one of the countries with the largest gaming community in the world - and I re-iterate 'ONE OF' (somebody had a problem reading that part and felt it necessary to stray off topic), we are going to have a REALLY - **** time - dealing with pings upwards of 400-800.

SO - I guess its just a question of the lesser of two evils, should we be playing in the US or EU with this game, I didn't get a chance to play the BETA so I have no idea what the ping's are like.

Any Aussies around that know, or just someone who has a fair idea?

I would suggest playing on the US servers, but that's just cos I'm trying to steal as many people as I can from the folks across the pond....WE WILL HAVE MORE! /challenge

Haha well we don't seem to fall into either perfectly so if I get enough of a US response, that will be where ill be directing myself and my mates ;D

So how many times does that mean I need to post that you should play on the US server?

;)

EU! we have the Irish!

in qld im going us that wasnt too bad of lag for me while in beta.

US,

Unless you live in Perth..

If you care about having less lag then US is the way to go.

Play in the US, because Aussies are cool and we need more of them. This will contribute to late night gaming for us.

Very few games launch with Oceanic servers, sadly.
They usually take a long time before they even consider offering oceanic servers, thankfully PS2 offered a single Oceanic server on launch.

Anyway your best bet is US, the servers are a lot closer, and if you are given the choice go for US East I think it is as they are even closer again, or was it west, waaaaa I cannot remember

Anyway I play several other MMO's where I have to use US servers and I get a ping of 160-250ms so it should hopefully be the same, 250 is about my threshold any higher and it becomes horrible.

(I am in New Zealand)

well...i feel let down by my buddies from the EU....

YES! Be like Doctor Chase and come to the US!

and US WEST would probably be closes as the west coast of the usa is the pacific side.

Only reason games don't get oceanic servers is cause Telstra are freaking so picky with who they let have servers/tunneling. last mmo I remember playing with Oceanic servers was Ragnarok online OCEANIA. Although Singapore servers give decent ping also.

Fortunately, PC only has 1 US server, and lucky for you guys, they're in Cali.... Much closer than Europe...

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Only reason games don't get oceanic servers is cause Telstra are freaking so picky with who they let have servers/tunneling. last mmo I remember playing with Oceanic servers was Ragnarok online OCEANIA. Although Singapore servers give decent ping also.

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Star Wars the Old Republic actually has its Oceanic servers hosted in Australia, so to those I get a ping of 30-35ms, too bad SWTOR sucks :(

shh. EU is still cooler. we have all the chronic alcoholics and stuff....

When ragnarok oceanic closed down I cried abit :(

Haha alright it sounds like US is the way im swinging with Defiance, and I like your point Djin! ;D

Ill find you guys on launch ;D im happy to be the late night company haha.

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shh. EU is still cooler. we have all the chronic alcoholics and stuff....

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Obviously you haven't been to the US recently...Our alcoholics can give yours a definite run for their money....Sure we've only got half as many, but they're twice as good.

+ aussie dollar is worth more than a US dollar soooooo, profit ;)

pfffff. i have been to america. six bottle of light beer and most of you are on your backs. i'm Irish. six bottle of vodka and I'm in hospital getting my stomach pumped but i'm still conscious!

Psh, yeah...six bottles....Were you drinking French vodka, cos it couldn't have been the real good stuff XD

I think our American beer sucks. I've always drank imports (well most of the time, with the exception of fraternity parties with Natty Light and Bud Select)

Either way, Aren't you kind of considered closer to the US?

the french do vodka? Russian or polish is all i drink. but no. i kid. i love Americans. most of you have a little bit of irish in you by all accounts so your not bad at drinking XD

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the french do vodka? Russian or polish is all i drink. but no. i kid. i love Americans. most of you have a little bit of irish in you by all accounts so your not bad at drinking XD

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Yeah, Grey Goose is french vodka...nasty crap...blegh...

And sadly I have no irish... Spanish, Italian, German, English, and (Wish I wasn't) French....

Germans good too!

Stolichnaya is all there is to me, its my life long partner :3

Stoli's good.....I myself have been known to by Svedka....


Also, have any of you tried Berenschlager? (Baronschlager? I dunno how to spell it...) It's a German vodka-based Mead, and it is wonderful.

I would go with EU mainly because we all know that the USA has the slowest internet in the world. Almost everyone in the EU has better internet than us.

US servers... around 180-240MS on average. Using a tunnelling service with reduce this even more. Here is gameply from the BETA from an Aussie point of view, its not too bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqXXfQRS6tI

No, never heard of it, I know what ill be looking for at the bottleo though, this week ;)

Edit: Thanks Chippy! That's excellent :D

Europe has a much better internet infrastructure from what i understand

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Fortunately, PC only has 1 US server, and lucky for you guys, they're in Cali.... Much closer than Europe...

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Actually, Trions US server site is in Dallas, Texas. But the Aussies should not much notice those few extra hops from California to Texas after already hopping the Pacific.

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... as one of the countries with the largest gaming community in the world, believed to be second only to the US ...

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stopped reading there mate ... Korea, China, Singapore, Germany .... no matter how you look at it, absolute numbers or percentages, that just won't be true :cool:

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Star Wars the Old Republic actually has its Oceanic servers

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yep, and they will be gone soon.
http://oceanicgamer.com/2013/03/ocea...swtor-servers/


Don't get me wrong, I would love a local server. However, so far that never really worked out. Singapore might be the best option?!

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Fortunately, PC only has 1 US server, and lucky for you guys, they're in Cali.... Much closer than Europe...

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Much less likely to be hit by some untoward natural phenomenon in EU though, unless they stuck the data centre next to mount Etna or Vesuvius ;)

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No, never heard of it, I know what ill be looking for at the bottleo though, this week ;)

Edit: Thanks Chippy! That's excellent :D

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You're welcome

I think any Aussie based gamer on the Aussie East Coast would be mad to play on EU. I have experienced 300+ MS on other MMO's on EU servers, I cant comment for WA or NZ connections. I play rift through Pingzapper and I experience MS of about 180 to the US servers and the impact on the game is minimal, but thats my opinion. As the defiance servers are in the exact same location as the RIFT servers, no doubt pingzapper will support Defiance. Pingzapper is the old Wow Tunnels.

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Much less likely to be hit by some untoward natural phenomenon in EU though, unless they stuck the data centre next to mount Etna or Vesuvius ;)

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Oh please...Are you actually expecting the Terraforming spires to crash down on the US? Silly swampy....

if they are in amsterdam they are very much in danger of a tsunami since its below sea level there

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Oh please...Are you actually expecting the Terraforming spires to crash down on the US? Silly swampy....

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Well as they're not in Cali like you suggested, they don't run the risk of dropping into the Pacific anytime soon.. doesn't Dallas get tornadoes and hurricanes however? :p