didnt they change IP and server? I remember the old server being in OVH frankfurt. The new gameservers OVH advertised are only sold in Gravelines or straatsburg france so afaik they moved
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apparently its always been france thanks for lying gametracker
We are running at 20 ticks per second, that alone adds 50ms + your actual ping (when you ping perpheads.com). This has been the case for quite some time (many years) and I don't think it's actually worse now, we could think about increasing tickrate though.