Does ExitLag Fix Counter Strike 2 Ping Issues?

Now ladies and gentlemen I think one of the biggest gripes of The Counter Strike 2 launch is that it launched CS goo went away and CS2 had a bunch of glaring issues at least that's what people say we have Pros complaining such as simple uh telling people to hold off if you want to become a Counter-Strike to Pro I'd give it 3 months don't play this game right that's what that's what we're getting okay that sort of feedback from the top .1% of player robs thankfully is uh is on our side you know I think simpol take is uh a pretty edgy terrible take don't stop playing the game uh if you want it to get better we should continue to play the game and continue to provide feedback to valve to make our game better does that not make sense I think one of the biggest complaints is that the game feels a little off right whether that be sub tick servers or something else the thing that I think is that when it comes to sub tick servers in CS2 it is all dependent based on your connection so if you have a bad connection you're going to have a worse time with sub tick than you would if it was you know a 64 tick total 64 tick or 128 tick it's going to feel different because it's based more on connection from my understanding than actual tick of the server at least in a normal tick server if it was 64 if it was 120 the server still registers things as you click and do you might not see it correctly on your screen but that's kind of what's going on right now too right so a sub tick if your connection is bad or you have higher ping where you think you might have clicked the server might not recognize that one of the issues that I was noticing when I was playing in game is I live in in the Midwest of the United States right and basically I'm routed through the Chicago server and I was seeing a ton of these huge weird rubber banding lag spikes just terrible terrible uh it was it was a mess right one thing that I did to fix that and we're going to try another thing today but one thing that I did to fix that if anybody doesn't know if you come up here to the settings menu right and you go over to game there's this Max acceptable ping uh feature right here mine was set to like 7580 and that's kind of where my ping was at nowadays since I've lowered it to 49 I'm sitting around the 4050 range and I'm not getting that nasty rubber banding anymore however that is not enough and I want to be sitting inside the server right I want as low as ping as possible and that's where today's video comes into play I'm going to be trying an application called exit lag now a buddy told me about this and I did a little bit of digging into it it's an application that is supposed to optimize your connection to Game servers okay Counterstrike go is on that list I can only imagine that CS2 uh is also accept it but we're going to find out so knowing a baseline of if I have that setting turned up my ping is around 70 80 and right now it's around 40 to 50 I want to see if we can get that ping lower with this application now from what I understand uh because I was a tech Creator before I started making Counter-Strike content is that exit lag just seems to be a glorified DNL everything that it does you should be able to do on your own home network without paying for this service or paying for this application and if you think about it Google DNS is free but I have downloaded exit lag I'm going to install it then I'm going to play a match and we're going to see where the Ping is at see how it feels so let me get that installed let us hop into a match and let's see what happens okay so we have installed exit lag and it uh forced me to restart now we got to log in so log in I don't know if it if it made changes to like my DNS or to my network settings uh after the install process was complete and that's why you have to restart I'm not 100% sure maybe it's going through and analyzing the route right now uh but yeah this seems to be from what I understand a glorified DNS uh some sort of uh you know Network some sort of network thing uh let's see so it looks like right out the gate it's caught that we have energy efficient ethernet on we can reduce that it'll reset the network adapters uh I'm not going to do that right now so now I assume we find Counter Strike in the list and CS2 is here by the way if anybody wants to try this out there will be a link down in the top pin comment and in the description down below if you decide to check it out gives the channel a little Kickback but let's find out if it actually works first right so we've picked our game Counterstrike 2 it picked out North America as the region yes we want to use the routes within my country first I would assume um we want to run the optimizer just to make sure everything is good now we want to apply the routes and that game should be added there now I don't know if this applies like a DNS routing on top of like the game or or if it actually changes your your actual network settings but you can toggle it on and off up here what we have in tools got packet redirection methods optimization uh accuracy you can do like FPS boost we can do traffic shaping multi- Internet run Diagnostics and monitor ping in real time and then you can add new games within there if you want to download and try it out like I said it'll be in the top pin comment down below it'll find your internet provider you will have a 4day free trial to uh to try it out and see if it works for you but let's find out if it works right so we have our Counterstrike routes active here the application is turned on I don't think we should be able to get backband for this since it is seemingly a uh it is seemingly a DNS or VPN I want to find out if it's changing anything with my internet speeds you know if you're if we're connecting through different routes if we're going to different servers and stuff it might impact your download speed which it doesn't appear to be doing that my internet looks fine exit leg found that Counter Strike 2 is running uh all right let's try a match Now ladies and gentlemen the results are in and it's actually more surprising than I thought it was going to be so we started earlier on in the video I turned on exit leg for the first time we set up we set up CS2 and the automatic routes optimize the routes as they call it the technology I'm not exactly sure what's going on in the back end there but we set up the routes we made sure that exit lag was turned on and we entered our first game of CS2 for the day now this match we got absolutely stomped 13 to2 but I am proud to say that it was not related to my lag in the game where we turned exit lag on for the first time my connection was still routed through Chicago same as always however my ping was down to 22 ping surprisingly better than it normally is or better than I thought it was going to do now the low ping didn't save my aim that is a skill issue and one that I'm trying to continuously work on however I'm very bad at the game but I just love the game it's just so fun so when we move down over to game two I decided to fully close out of Counter Strike 2 I I closed it out I went to exit lag I turned exit lag off and then we went into a match on marage now in Mirage surprised to say my ping was back up to about 36 to 40 ping I thought okay maybe well maybe you know it's a it's a fluke maybe it's just fluctuating it'll go back down or you know whatever but in game one it stated a consistent 22 ping at game two like I said it hovered around 36 to 40 but mainly stuck around 36 ping ping so a 14 ping total decrease by just turning exit lag on now is this worth $10 a month or $5 a month if you do the annual plan or slightly cheaper if you do the half a year plan that is hard to say because while I did have lower ping in the first game it wasn't noticeable enough for me to be like oh yeah uh I'm definitely seeing a nice difference here maybe when I uh got a double maybe when I got a 2K in one round with a couple head shot it felt really nice but other than that it kind of just felt like Counter Strike too I mean it just felt pretty much the same and in game two uh matchmaking flipped itself on his head and we were the ones that that got to decimate our opponents in that match I was hitting a lot more shots uh and I was you know I was kind of popping off a little bit and that was with the higher ping the the 36 ping so does 14 ping make that much of a difference well maybe not to a low ELO uh low tier player like myself however if you are a better player uh someone who can tell the difference between ping because you're you're just better than I am uh which I'm sure there's a lot of people that are then maybe this is for you maybe it is maybe it is maybe it isn't I don't know but if you want to find out again in the description down below and in the top pin comment there will be a link to try it out for 4 days 4 day free trial you don't have to give your credit card you don't have to give your your banking information or nothing you can just download it sign up for an account and try it out for free for 4 days try it out let me know if this is better for you or if it is worse again I I can clearly see that the game marks my ping lower when it is on but being a low tier player already I don't notice too much of a difference however what I will say is that while I was using exit lag I didn't see any rubber banding or choppiness so if you're someone who is seeing that kind of thing uh you can either go into the game and set max ping to like 40 uh or you can like I said try this out ladies and gentlemen that's the video if you liked it like it subscribe to stay up to date on all my latest content and I will see you in the next one take care

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Length: 9min 2sec (542 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 09 2023