If you live in Chicago, it’s likely that you’re a satisfied player of League of Legends. After all, their North American game servers are located in the Windy City after they moved them in 2014. There were also a lot of happy East Coast players who no longer had to deal with 110+ms ping times and absurd packet loss. We
Broadband connections can get a little confusing for gaming. Most people just sign up and go, expecting the internet to be…well, the Internet. Is there really a difference? It turns out there are quite a few differences around which broadband connection you have and how it affects your digital activities. Here are myths and truths about broadband connections for gaming.
Developers will say that you can’t feel a difference of 5-10ms ping, but gamers know better. Some professional players will even tell you that certain games or heroes can’t be played optimally with higher ping. Think about that the next time you end up in a Widowmaker duel and get taken down before you get your shot off. To play
It starts with something subtle. A moment’s hesitation on screen that wreaks havoc on your gameplay. A small stutter that ends up being the cause of your untimely and undeserved death. Micro-lag or stutters happen in gaming for a myriad of different reasons, and this type of lag can be the hardest to diagnose and solve. Nailing down what is
In League of Legends, not all champions are created equal. There are always champions who are more mechanically challenging than others, and many champions require a more practiced play-style to fully take advantage of than others. In this article, we want to talk about another element in the equation: latency. Lag affects all champions, but here are the five champions
It’s a typical Friday night: you’re playing Overwatch with your buddies and absolutely killing it on Hanzo. You’re busy mowing down supports with arrow after arrow, feeling like an unstoppable God of death. You line up your next shot and it goes wide — you felt like nothing was different, but it just didn’t hit. It happens again, then again.
Blizzard has introduced a healthy pool of heroes since they initially announced Overwatch and its original 12 heroes at Blizzcon 2014. There are now 25 unique heroes that players can use to blow up, crush into a wall, ninja star, arrow to the knee, or throw a poisonous “healing” grenade (never wrapped my head around this one) to destroy the
Simply put, Haste loves League of Legends, and we’re excited when we find other companies that create services and tools to make our League of Legends experience even better! That said, this article will focus on a brand new tool created by our friends at Mobalytics. Here at Haste we try not to play favorites when it comes to video
Lag is deadly. Whether it’s Overwatch, League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Call of Duty, DOTA 2, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, or any competitive multiplayer game, a single moment of lag could upset the whole match. Overall, Haste is designed to intelligently direct game traffic from your PC to the game’s servers. They route your traffic over their customized network to connect
Gamers disagree over almost everything. They argue about who is going to play support, whose fault a failed engage was and even which builds and metas are best. But one thing every gamer agrees on is that lag sucks. Networking is complicated. Whether you’ve been having lag spikes in-game, just moved, or want to brag to your friends about how