I have the so called advantage you speak of everytime I play because I live in the Pacific Northwest where internet is slow and will most likely never improve. This is 100% false. From my experience playing this series of games it is the complete opposite of what you describe. I have to miss and shoot behind players with lower ping on purpose because my bullets don’t shoot them when I pull the trigger because they are actually a step behind where they are shown to me on the screen. I have put a full spread into the back of a player then they turn around take a step back a blow me to peices in one shot. I did no damage and the kill cam shows me shooting beside the other player into the wall instead of right at them.
I never found this to be a problem and personally never did it until the option to manually select my closest data center was taken away because you guys whined about people hopping regions to find games to play.
This will certainly help but not solve the problem. The real solution is to match players by connection times first then skill second when players search for a match. We would have to give something up to achieve this though. Wait times to be put in a match would go up as a result and we would have less players to play with just like in gears of war 4 before the region selector got taken away.
