Overwatch faces severe ping crises, issue reported by the players

Major cases from Australia where players were even shipped off to Singapore servers which makes playing too difficult.

Overwatch 2, a first-person shooting game that is also a sequel to Overwatch launched in 2016 and is available on Nintendo, Xbox, ps5, and Ps4.

They had a high disturbing pin of 130ms even more which was unplayable for them, the issue could be a small topic until the same problem was noticed in South Africa which was also having the same issues of high ping. Although this has been a new experience for Australian players of being cut through the servers it has also united the players to speak against Blizzard and they are now banded together in a ray of hope and even Xbox and launched by blizzard entertainment.

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The majority of Australian players and gamers unite for this issue by reporting the problem of ping to Australian Competition and Consumer Communication. The issue of overwatch is also because of the large land mass where several communities live at coastal areas hindering the pin which creates problems and now issues like teleportation from Australian servers to Singapore are making it worse. Although there have been many speculations that it could have been an issue created by Blizzard’s reallocation of other games. Now the question is how can other players solve their problem if the issue persists in their region, how can they play at better ping


Here are some methods through which you can have much better and smoother gameplay-
  
1. Using a VPN 
Using the VPN can not just stop the traffic but also help in providing better ping for gameplay and can be a solution if latency is a big issue in your game.
 
 2. WIFI
     
If you're not having appliances like ethernet or cable you can opt for wifi ensuring that the wifi is closer to the laptop and there is no obstruction between networks. Internet modems have a trajectory so try keeping them up on the table or even on the bookshelf for better ping.


3 . Installing a firewall extension to the device 

The steps for adding are quite simple -

  • Search firewall and protection in the Windows search bar 
  • Scroll and click on allow firewall from pc 
  • Now, select overwatch exe. Which will help in less latency and support smoother gameplay