This might be a dumb question, but... where do I see ping?

[Gilmaris]

Ok, so I'd like to join specific missions, and not just click "to battle" all the time. I'd really like for there to be a way to sort missions by connection, but I can't seem to find any indicator of connectivity anywhere. And I hate to find out only after I've joined that the connection sucks. So how do I know ahead of time whether my ping is going to be acceptable or through the roof? I know I must be missing something, because no one seems to be talking about it.

[genghis1964]

from what I have seen in game you wont know until you join the battle. that is when the ping log is running top left of screen

[mustangace]

Originally posted by genghis1964:

from what I have seen in game you wont know until you join the battle. that is when the ping log is running top left of screen

Ping actually shows at the bottom left of your screen when in a game. You will see ping next to "packet loss" followed by "reliability."

Fps (frames per second) is shown at the top left in game.

For me fps varies between 50 and 120 during a game. Ping is around 80 to 100 when I am on the US servers (I'm in the US) but drops to between 180 to 220ms when I have "any" server sellected, which is most of the time.

[Gilmaris]

Well I'll be darned, I never noticed that tiny writing before. Thanks for that. Just wish there was an indicator prior to joining battle.

[mustangace]

Originally posted by Gilmaris:

Well I'll be darned, I never noticed that tiny writing before. Thanks for that. Just wish there was an indicator prior to joining battle.

Before entering any battle you can run your mouse cursor over the word BATTLE to get the main dialog box to appear. Just above the BATTLE button you will see Current Server. Chances are it says ANY to the right. You can click on that and change the server you want to use, US (United States), RU (Russia), EU (Europe) or ANY. I use ANY most of the time, even though I get better ping times from the US server because games seem to start quicker. And I kind of hate waiting.

[Gilmaris]

Thanks, mustangace, that's very useful!