Xbox One Region and Dedicated Servers

Hi guys,

I want to play all my games in english, but I live in Switzerland. Will changing the region to the UK cause any lag with dedicated servers such as Halo and Titanfall? I know that in p2p matches like COD the game searches for players in your physical region
and not the region chosen in xbox live. This keeps the lag low. But I am unsure what will happen if I play Titanfall or Battlefield? Will the game connect me to just UK servers instead of the ones in switzerland?

Thanks

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Xbox One: Dedicated Servers and Why You Should Care

A dedicated server is when a multiplayer game is run on a actual server(or a dedicated server) in this case in a Microsoft data center. Microsoft has data centers on every continent and can offer dedicated servers for every region. Every player in a game connects directly to the server and you only communicate directly with the server.

What are the benefits to this system?

* They are dynamic, in other words you will never see a Xbox One game lose server support as servers are dedicated on the fly and are dynamic to consumers requests on Xbox Live. In other words a server might be running Titanfall one day and the next day Forza Motorsport 5.

* It's Free!, not to us consumers of course but it's free to all first and third party developers as we are paying for it. This is fantastic for developers like Respawn who would otherwise not have done dedicated servers in every region due to cost.

* No host advantage (Normal servers where everyone connects to the host player gives the host a latency advantage.)

* No NAT issues, you will no longer have open your NAT or worry about having problems connecting to other players.

* No lag effects, usually when someone lags in a racing game like Forza there car will start to spaz out and start hitting other people or flying. With dedicated servers you will no longer experience this effect and it will not affect the players in a game.

* Higher ping toleration, people with higher pings will have a lot less of a problem playing with others.

* Bigger multiplayer games, as the server is handling everything in the muiltplayer game it can allow for even larger and more epic multiplayer experiences without negative effects.

In other words this is the most superior way to run a multiplayer game and Xbox Live on Xbox One will have it for every game in every region, Sony cannot and will not match this.

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Titanfall population Xbox one

Depends on your region as the dedicated servers are region locked. I'm on one of the smaller servers here in Australia however and still find games so if you are in the US or EU I don't see you having issues with population.

 

Games with dedicated servers don't generally work by your console settings, instead they use IP or ping results to pick the best server for you. Both Titanfall and Battlefield use the ping results to your best datacenter which is either going to be in the
Netherlands for you or London.

So no, your connection won't be affected by switching the consoles settings.

 

Yep, in Titanfall, for example, it will ping the data centres and order them by which has the best ping, so you would connect to the data centre with the lowest ping by default. In that particular game, you can connect to any data centre you like though.