Atlanta, Los Angeles, Seattle and New York go live on 9 December, the first cities FACEIT have named since they promised new servers in October.
The cities are finally on the table, at least for North America. FACEIT announced on Thursday 12 November that Season 10 adds four server locations in the region: Atlanta, Los Angeles, Seattle and New York. They go live when the season starts on 9 December at .
New servers were the headline feature when FACEIT set the Season 10 date on 28 October, but no locations were named then, or when the platform followed up with automatic server matching on 4 November. In the announcement video, Derek from FACEIT’s matchmaking team explained why these four were chosen.
These four new locations will fill the biggest gap in our current coverage, where our data showed new servers would help NA players the most.
The map in the video marks five other North American locations in grey next to the four new ones. Players do not have to do anything to use them. “They work like every other FACEIT server in North America, so there’s nothing you need to enable or change,” Derek said.
Nobody will pick them by hand either. From Season 10, FACEIT choose the server for every match from each party’s connection score, which measures ping, jitter and packet loss, and a party can still ban one location.
FACEIT have not said whether any of the four will be priority servers, the locations reserved for Premium and Super matches when they are close to capacity. No new locations outside North America have been announced, and the revamped interface and team experience are still to be detailed before Season 9 ends on 8 December at .
