So, I only recently started playing Day Z, about a week ago. After some trouble trying to get it started, I finally got it to work. Very well, in fact. I have had no further problems until today's update. Today, I checked for updates, and installed beta patch 95389. Then I launched the game, and as you may imagine, I tried to join a server. But what is this? I was kicked? Because my ping was too high? But it says the auto-kick only goes up to 175, and in the browser, this server showed a ping of 16? This happened on every subsequent server I tried. I have come to a conclusion, and it is that the server is kicking me because of high ping, but high ping that the server is causing. In the first few moments of joining, my computer gets bombarded with information about the game; what time it is, weather conditions, where I am on the map, what my inventory is, the location of every single entity that the server is tracking (other players, vehicles, any zombies in the area), and returns fire with all the information that the server needs from my computer. I don't have the fastest internet, only 3MB/s, so my bandwidth tops out pretty easily, even though I know that I can play with much lower pings than would justify a kick. Once I'm all loaded in, which isn't a short process, I generally have a ping between 20 and 70ms. I don't know if anybody else is having this problem. My suggested solution is either raising the ping cap (which I know is mostly up to the server owner, not the devs), or waiting a little while, maybe a minute, for the ping to stabilize before kicking. I would ask for longer than a minute, as loading can take up to about two, but I realize that that would entirely defeat the purpose of the limiter. I really enjoy playing the game, and I really appreciate that it's free. I'd just like to be able to continue playing. Hope my voice is heard!
