How do some games like Monster Hunter, or even mobile games like Underlords, allow for players all over the globe to play together seamlessly but other games like Dota has horrible lag and ping when you play outside your region?

Question

How do some games like Monster Hunter, or even mobile games like Underlords, allow for players all over the globe to play together seamlessly but other games like Dota has horrible lag and ping when you play outside your region?

In: Technology

Answer 1

Bunch of good answers

Real ELI5:

More complex games require updates to the server to happen for a large number of objects

This can be players, spells, or the environment

The server then has to determine what state the environment needs to change to reflect the next frame

Most big games have something similar to a cpu bus for the server to manage updates in priority sequences, this is where lag comes into play for international play as it requires more complex computations to determine who did what first and how to update the game state on the next frame