cs2 and the UK Premier MM Servers - Please help

[Rig]

The servers for CS2 are especially terrible for UK players and its not a case of ping its a case of routing. I am dying before I see people, there is a delay in fragging people despite the ping appearing ok, shots are random when they land its usually because you missed not because you where on target its so random. After trying the game on LAN it feels perfect or close too and really nice in general.

Playing Online has knocked my confidence in cs2 so much. Knowing you need 10 bullets to ever 1 of your opponents is playstyle altering madness.

I know from working in infrastructure that it is a case of routing. the UKs routing to most of the servers in Europe are terrible and its proving impossible to enjoy the game. If the UK had its own servers sure the .eu would complain and not like them (as they always do faceit and early CSGO being an example when we had UK servers and eu. typically hated UK servers understandably they find it impossible as we have done for years). This is not a pop at .eu I just wish for a little equality.

I have tried everything at my end to create a better experience :

- rates. interp, fps.
- my own network, router config
- re-installed several times, different OS
- launch options

But if you go on LAN with bots and feel what the actual game is like, its brilliant.

I suppose in short, this is a plea,

Please Valve for the love of god, take a look at the experience UK players are having and offer a contingency please. its so shocking and I feel like this is a problem not many know about because the UK is a minority compared to the whole of .eu and in most cases we'll just fall on our sword and get drowned out by the world saying "UK is bad at esports" I would love to see them walk a mile in our shoes being on an island with so much choke.

I can deal with the cheaters and the competition and I know when I'm beaten by quality players, but I need a chance.

I'm doing my best to enjoy the competition but I need that chance, if I'm on a server that takes me 10 bullets to register to every 1 of my opponents then I'm at a major disadvantage that in a competitive game adds up to impossible.

Thanks in advance

[Phishy]

pls

[General Maximus]

CONGRATS
Finally someone has been able to put it in words which make sense and are not censored(as mine usually are.
I'm totally with you, been playing CS since it started (yes im that old) but back then we had local servers, and as rig says it was enjoyable.

NOT ANYMORE

PLS someone get UK servers

[squiddy]

doesnt help that every server we get is full of angry russians 100% of the time when theres definately other UK players out there somewhere

[UltraV10lent]

UK servers are now implemented but full of 70+ pingers from the back-arse end of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tanking the server.
When on MM it's usually Frankfurt servers that you get dumped on which is nigh-on impossible to get a shot to register on but you get one-tapped almost every encounter.
Properly frustrating.
Need to set pings to the lowest by default and include further servers if none can be found as I reckon most users don't set it, they just use the standard setting.

[EMPLOYER]

I'm absolutely sick of London servers being full of 50-70 ping Russians/Kazakhstani's as well

[dudzinCASE.GIFTSKINS]

SIGMA SIGMA BOY

[Rig]

At the time of me making this post I was fueled up and the game was in a wosre feeling state, but honestly i should know better than to push it on Valve, this is not their bad and as you say there are uk servers, respect to valve for that.

I think the internet will always come second best to LAN,

Perhaps thats a good thing 🤔