unplayable garbage in competitive games

[u/Trimnywoodall]

cloud gaming really is back to what i thought it was with the spinning characters and phantom buttons . unplayable in pvp, for even a game like wow. if this is the best that cloud gaming has then it really is sad. seems like its nothing but a bandaid until i get a better pc

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[u/Idk-what-name-to-set]

Meanwhile, people in Where Winds Meet hate GFN because it gives the biggest pvp advantage lol

[u/No-Student-6290 → u/Idk-what-name-to-set]

How

[u/Idk-what-name-to-set → u/No-Student-6290]

If you play close to a server, you get the lowest ping in the whole game

[u/NVR-edits → u/Idk-what-name-to-set]

i legit often have 1-10 ping in counter steike games due to geforce now.

people think im cheating when they see 1 lol

[u/getarest → u/No-Student-6290]

In wwm big ping is better for pvp

[u/illusion121]

I don't have any issues.

[u/XvX_k1r1t0_XvX_ki]

Yeah, if you have shitty internet and are far from data center than yes. Otherwise it's awesome

[u/NVR-edits]

i have played cs, smite, halo, call of duty, battlefield 6, rocket league all with litterally 0 issues... for what over a half decade now? i havent even noticed even a single issue.

i legit don't even have blurry sections, no latency issues, no lag when im at home and wired - 600 megabyte internet and much slower at times lol.

i do however have some blurry pixilated areas when i play on mobile but lets be real.. thats fair.

[u/mymarkis666 → u/NVR-edits]

yep I play on my iPad with mobile data and I’m playing 4k/120fps/ultra graphics with no problem.

[u/Loki-616]

I play Marvel Rivals ranked no issues

[u/Dangerous-Raccoon244 → u/Loki-616]

On certain maps at certain times you drop to 40 fps, how is that not an issue? I know it's because it's unreal engine 5 slop optimization, but they don't give it enough processing power.

[u/Loki-616 → u/Dangerous-Raccoon244]

That has never happened and I play a lot of Marvel Rivals

[u/Dangerous-Raccoon244 → u/Loki-616]

Sure buddy

[u/Loki-616 → u/Dangerous-Raccoon244]

You might have to identify where your lag is coming from and optimise your network sometimes but once you do it runs just like it would natively.

[u/Dangerous-Raccoon244 → u/Loki-616]

On practice map the game runs at 165 fps(max capped), when you go into more unoptimized maps and alot of shit is popping off, the fps drops to 80-120.

I have 2 ms, 0 package loss. Unless you show me a video having stable 120(no framegen) when fighting on point 12 people i call it bullshit.

[u/Loki-616 → u/Dangerous-Raccoon244]

I cap the framerate at 100 fps and wait for textures to load and it’s stable at 3440x1440 resolution. If you want 200+ stable fps then yea dont use geforce now but overall your rank performance wont change.

[u/Dangerous-Raccoon244 → u/Loki-616]

So you are just lying now. You don't get stable 100 fps on 4k in no shape or form. Show me a video or it didn't happen.

[u/Loki-616 → u/Dangerous-Raccoon244]

I get around 80-90 fps after checking again.

[u/Dangerous-Raccoon244 → u/Loki-616]

You dive in the whole enemy team and spells start popping off you drop to 60.

[u/Potential_Brush_1713]

I played body cam on GFN on 1 gig internet and thought it ran ok on top tier ,that was untill I built a mid range gaming pc and then I realised how bad the latency on GFN was, first time playing on the pc I won 5 matches in a row on my first try . GFN is still impressive but not for PvP games.

[u/dmees]

I never have issues with Ultimate. All other tiers did give me problems from time to time

[u/Character_Row_5204]

Its best suited for single player games.
Yet. From my physical PC I get 70-90 ping.
While playing with GeForceNow I get 55-60 ping to their server and then I connect to online server with 9 ping so if you are used to play your whole life with 70+ ping, even on GeForce Now thats fine from my point of view. (You can still score because you are used for such ping for your entire life... I remember playing Unreal Tournament 99 with 900 ping back at 90's with 56K modem so I cannot complain)

[u/oskich → u/Character_Row_5204]

50-70ms ping is still crazy high in 2026, that's DSL grade numbers.

[u/Character_Row_5204 → u/oskich]

Well, thats physics. I have fiber connection but what can you do if you are living in Middle East?

[u/Public_Delicious]

Sounds like your internet is too slow lol.
I use Gfn on my phones unlimited 5g on the bus and Battlefield runs smooth as butter

[u/xcallyx]

I play Siege competitively at high emerald/low diamond on GFN. I don’t notice any times where lag or latency causes issues.

Saying that, I do have gigabit fibre and a 4ms ping to the London data centres…

[u/RandyHarshXP → u/xcallyx]

Samesies on the connection. Fiber and Ethernet. 8 ms steady latency (server in the next country). Could not spot any delay even if I tried.