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Nate808365
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Mar 20, 2018
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XR500 geofilter question

I live in hawaii, had a question with mapping the circle . Should i map the circle on the hawaiian islands and spread it out to hit cali servers or can i just put the circle anywhere? I noticed when i...
  • Netduma_Jack's avatar
    Mar 20, 2018

    Hi Nate,

     

    Personally I would say this is all down to preference. 23ms sounds like a fantastic ping to play on - generally speaking, the lower your ping, the better your gameplay will be. If you're able to secure hosts with such a low ping easily then I would recommend keeping the Geo-Filter set up how you had it! Local servers aren't always the best ones, so don't worry if they are on mainland America.

     

    Headquarters relies on dedicated servers rather than peer-to-peer, so with strict mode on it's likely that you're blocking servers necessary to connect. It likely forces the game to attempt to connect you to another server within your radius, eventually letting you join. I'm glad you can connect easily without strict mode enabled :)