i cant type or think today at all so sorry for the bad wording.
That most likely is because the other players (100 pings etc) get "evened out" by the bad ping.
I cant think straight today OR type my thoughts into words but too good of a ping in online games (and that is ALL online games) ruins it for all the players with a good ping. Dedicated Servers or not. Since you play TF as well (still a great game when the lobbies are good) you have noticed that having a good ping is not a good thing. Hence another reason why dedis are not a solve all thing. In the case of TF you would be better playing without dedicated servers for some reasons.
I cant type or think right now and in a couple hours got to do my own PC rebuild so I will only be doing that. Since my thought processes are usually messed up I have to move a lot slower nowadays.
Maybe I could explain what I mean in a later post.
I live in Austin area. Servers are 55 ping to the Northeast Servers and 61 to the Central US servers. Figure that one out since its WAY further to the Northeast servers. To Western Servers its around 100 ping. Mainly its because of the connection quality of the hops etc in between going TO the servers. With Dedis I have no choice whatsoever.
In my case dedis further away are a better ping. Not a good sign.
In your case the Northeast servers are a death sentence for you. Too good of a ping can destroy your game. Considering the quality of the East Coast is most likely better.
As well as the fact that that "100 ms latency" added to players is a factor. I think the closer you get to that 100 ms the better your game is. But not sure yet if TF HAS that 100 ms delay or not. I would assume it does have it since a lot of FPS have different camera views. Problem is in Titanfall I have yet to see a split screen comparison.
BTW I am also using Titanfall as an example for MANY reasons.
A - Same developers as before which some people think they were delivered from God..
B - killcams work (basically) the same
C - The great fact we get a "ping marker" and can choose the better servers. BF for example doesnt tell you your ping.
D - Their forums are full of the same posts as here. Lag, hitmarkers, etc.
E - Titanfall is the newest version of the "fix all" lag code everyone is wondering about.
F- Battlefeild has proven for at least 4 years in my eyes that stuff like hitmarkers not registering etc is still a problem