Lag tears this game apart.

[Lorbeerprinz]

I see a lot of lag and disconnects in more regional-ish matches than you'd imagine, including private lobbies where everyone's from Germany to begin with. Sometimes it's people's connection, sometimes it's Nintendo's. It seems like in general, Splatoon is very peculiar about the connection it needs to stay afloat. For example, I have to boost my house's WLAN so that at least something arrives upstairs where I am (very thick walls everywhere, old house) and when that's just slightly below its optimum output (like when it's raining... sometimes), Splatoon will already ***** about it and doesn't let me finish matches. But I know it's my connection being stupid then, and sometimes I get disconnects while my connection is perfect. Not that it'd be less infuriating either way (I lost a whole damn rank to disconnects once).
In other words, it seems like a lot of things come together to create lag or disconnects, not only the distance between you and the others. Every online-based game will have some sort of lag for one reason or another. It's annoying, yes, but I don't think regional lobbies would get rid of the problem, at least not entirely. Also, "tears this game apart" or "pre-alpha" is really much too harsh to say in my opinion. Personally, I can play Splatoon ALOT better than other online games *coughSSB4cough*

 

[SupaTim]

Yeah, I lost a rank to lag and disconnects yesterday. I mean, I wasn't doing great to be in the position to lose rank over DC, but I was in a match where we were doing well and felt like momentum was swinging back my direction. Then people start teleporting everywhere in one match and I get DC'd in another.

It was great...

 

[Hinichii.ez.™]

Regional matchmaking is not the beat all, end all answer; we know that. But regional matchmaking will make the overall online experience smoother, than it already is.

 

[MissingNumbers]

Regional matchmaking is not the beat all, end all answer; we know that. But regional matchmaking will make the overall online experience smoother, than it already is.

Haven't there been multiple instances of stating that people actually get more connection problems with their own region?

 

[Brunosky_Inc]

Haven't there been multiple instances of stating that people actually get more connection problems with their own region?

Yup. And as I've already brought up, there would me more problems besides regional lag if you added regional play.

Longer to fill lobbies a smoother experience do not make.

 

[seakingtheonixpected]

It also interesting to splat a Roller and then see their ink trail continue for a few seconds. Lag usually works in my favor when I use chargers, so no complaints

 

[Afro]

What


What if Splatoon had a server browser like PC games? That would be amazing.

AMAZING

 

[16bitdave]

I never get lag. I use an ethernet cable for my Wii U

 

[jsilva]

To me lag is the least frustrating thing among the frustrating things about the game which I otherwise love :)

Lag is there but is almost never an issue for me. It may be worth saying that I've used a wired connection and had worse lag than my wireless. It makes me wonder if a high quality wireless router is better than an USB ethernet adapter with the Wii U.

I'd much rather complain about the point award/loss and matchmaking in ranked...

I'll also add to the objections to regional matchmaking. I see no more lag in all Japanese ranked games (I'm in the US) vs splatfest games and it would decrease the matchmaking pool. If you want a regional game then just make a private battle.