on my server browser, i very often see ugc.tf EU servers showing up as having really low ping like 19-30. then when I join, since they are EU, i get like 120 ping.
scanned my server browser and saw 7 eu ugc.tf servers doing this.
anyone else?
on my server browser, i very often see ugc.tf EU servers showing up as having really low ping like 19-30. then when I join, since they are EU, i get like 120 ping.
scanned my server browser and saw 7 eu ugc.tf servers doing this.
anyone else?
it's called ping masking and yeah, it's pretty bad
someone tell the server owners they have -10000 social credit
There's a DDoS mitigation strategy (anycast network with globally cached A2S_PLAYER/A2S_INFO responses) that has these unrealistically low pings as a side effect. Looking at a random UGC IP from the US that pinged really low for me, that seems to be the reason.