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

Not ELI5 but this this is a big presentation about netcode for Overwatch that I thought was interesting and will answer some questions!

You can start at 25:30 for a cool moving graph that shows the how the server tries to predict player inputs.