VPN and Lag in efotball

VPN
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Hello, all

I play efotball for 3 months. Almost managed to get div 1.

Than I lost 200 rating and blamed all on scripts.

After what I’m
Going to tell you ( yes script exist:) ) but it’s not the main culprit for your losses or
Mine.

The main issue is the input lag and server connection :folded_hands:t3:

I’m from România- ms 25-30 and ping in cmd is between 5-10. 4 antens in efotball never 5.

Steam player.

Last nigh I tought to give a VPN service a go( won’t advertise here- but it’s well known)

And I conected to Frankfurt servers- Germany .

My gosh, what a diff in gameplay. Passes were smooth as hell, dribling, double touch and sharp touch.

I couldn’t believe my eyes. Even tough I had 3 antens game was 2 times smoother and I made some actions I even tought can’t be posible.

It’s not perfect every game, but it’s way better for me and some games it’s pure op.

I tought my passes will be 100% intercepted- no way, the passing game was flawless.

The speed, the clear, no more extra touches.

I didn’t had all games perfect, but I beg you to stop rage, people who have good wired internet and are close to google servess( wich konami uses) play another game mates.

If u wonder how some opponents drible, have perfect 1-2”s, dmf s in position perfect most of the time, it’s the connection mates.

I know I have it better with vpn even tough antena and ping are worse with it.

But I”ll have it so perfect like those guys much more rarely .

Script , da still existed but it didnt felt the cpu is against me all game. More like for me , than for opponent.

I teste 10 games.

40%-50% of you ur losses are caused by server connection lads. No matter what division you are.

Top players with best net and server location play 90% of games like its efotball 2.0 for them it’s way to silky.

I bet you wonder that pass should go in, and it should:

If I have 0.3 input lag , what I press and see on the screen don’t match .

If enemy has 0.1, 0.2 he will intercept it, or if he has the same pass, you will miss it or goes under the fut.

So after this test, my conclusion is as following:

Connection -50%
Script& skill 50%

Too bad we can’t all enjoy the game how is supposed to play.

This is the reason you see people skilled with 90% winrate, they are gods at the game but they have a Zeus response time

Good day to you all!

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Strange, normally VPN contributes to a higher ping rate.

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I’m the opposite, if I forget to switch off VPN from my work laptop, it will interfere with efootball gameplay. I always try to reboot my router and ensure VPN is switched off all devices in the house before playing efootball.
(I never have to worry about all that when playing EA FC 25.)

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I am in Germany ( Stuttgart ) in person and I can confirm that my gameplay here is super smooth. In my country it’s like sh.i.t

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That doesn’t make sense. Not like VPN brings you physically closer to a server. In reality, there’s even more routes the signal has to travel

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I am in Germany and game is still lag.

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Is just your mind set that you want it to be true. The VPN won’t teleport you closer to the server. The smoothness you mention may be cause you’ll mostly connect to the closest server to Romania. You should also see the 5 bar connection if you connect to Germany server while VPN is set to Germany, not 3 bar. If you see 3 bar it means you are connected to an even further server.

Now that you finally found the secret to get good gameplay, it should be easy for you to establish yourself as a div1 constant player, right? Come back later on and tell us how it went.

One thing you are right tho. This game’s networking is bad. Konami did not find the right formula to online networking yet. They should ask help from other studios that nailed it first try. Look at Rocket League as example, where gameplay is good even continents apart.

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I’m from Romania, most of my games are lag free. I have Orange Fiber. Last year i lived in another place with Digi Fiber and i had more laggy games.

I guess the routing for Orange is better.

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The only logical explanation for this (also a crazy conspiracy) is that Konami scripting is linked to your ip address… because network wise you should have more lag and delay, also Romania isn’t that far from the servers and routing shouldn’t be an issue… Konami got us all wondering what the hell is going on, maybe the pro’s have an answer that they are not sharing.

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in germany servers are also shit. I find it super hard to believe vpn, which obviously introduces lag, would help. But who knows. I have different lag whenever i play efootball league than when i play events for example.

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This is what I think so.

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That might be a way to deal with Efootball lag, I was thinking about it earlier. I think VPN must work somehow better as I met 3 players from Iran using it (talked to them after the game - all div 1, even 50 ranking). Their gameplay was smooth as f, even the one rank 50 had better connection than I (was good player but also I couldn’t dribble, but he could do everything).

One thing to ask all those networking experts, theory is one thing and practice is a whole different story. Some people have been saying that changing DNS helped them and there was soo many of them - so it had to have some effect but in theory it shouldn’t.

Right now I got external Ont for fiber and I will install a VPN on my router for the PS5 to use. I will come back to you with results. It might be that changing location can allow you to connect to better server - when I check GCP latency it shows the same ping for Frankfurt and just a little bit more for locations a little further away. My theory is that ping will be worse but the server could process the game a lot better.

My game is rarely very smooth but sometimes it is, usually just after maintenance or big update.

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Isn’t VPN use bannable by Konami?

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yes, if servers are equal in processing… but, if not, VPN addition to ping can be lover than server difference…

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it makes him connect to Frankfurt Server more often, so to a certain degree it makes sense. But the better and much cheaper approach would be just to block all other Google server IPs except for Frankfurt.

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Than why my gameplay was smooth as never before? Passes , shots, no input delay and second chances? I don’t know what’s wrong with the net code but for the moment it just works better.

I’ll come back with you with the end result🤗

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Dunno man. I get 4 antens in Romania with great isp. But with it or vpn I had max 3 amazing responsive games. Was enough to realise how connection is everything in this game. I don’t even care about the script if the game would work like that. The passes, driblez that you can make is unreal. Guess those who have it this way are the top 2% cuz otherwise u just can’t keep up with them. In those 3 matches I dominate 2 top 200 ranked players top to bottom and lost 5-1 to rank 20. All of them had perfect connection , I could compare it with my passing and dribling. It’s sad most of us can’t play it as it supposed to

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Yes. Like permanently. I wouldn’t have posted that here tbh

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Still makes no sense, but ok.

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Is the Frankfurt server any different than the others?