How to see your ping in games: CS2, Dota 2, Apex, Battlefield 6 and more

Why turn on the ping display

Without numbers, lag is treated blind: you cannot tell whether it is the network, the server or your PC. The ping display answers the first question, and the loss and network problems display the second. Turn it on and leave it: the panel does not get in the way, and the moment something jerks you see exactly what moved.

Watch more than the ping. The average ping does not show loss and jitter, and those are what cause stutter when latency looks normal. Where the game can, turn on the full network stats.

Where to turn it on: by game

Counter-Strike 2

Settings → Game → Telemetry: for ping and network problems choose “always” or “in poor conditions”. In the console, the net_connections_status command gives the jitter details.^1,2

Dota 2

According to the wiki: Options → Advanced → Miscellaneous → Display Network Information — FPS, ping and loss appear in the top right corner.³

Deadlock

Settings → Game, the telemetry block: frame rate, ping and network problems; there is a mode that shows them only when the connection is poor.⁴

Apex Legends

Settings → Gameplay → Performance Display: frames per second, latency and packet loss. The data center is chosen on the start screen before you press Continue.⁵

Battlefield 6

Options → System → Network: Scoreboard Ping adds each player's ping to the scoreboard, Network Graph → Modify turns on the network bar and graph.⁶

Fortnite

Settings → Game UI → “Net Debug Stats”: ping and loss appear in the match.⁷

Rocket League

Options → Interface: Network Summary or Network Graph, and the F10 key shows and hides the graphs. When there is a problem, a “!” lights up next to the ping on the scoreboard.^8,9

Rust

According to the Facepunch wiki: F1 → the NET tab, with ping and loss; the perf variable turns on counters over the game.¹⁰

DayZ

According to the wiki: Change Server → the server browser, with a Ping column and a ping filter on the right.¹¹

Team Fortress 2

According to the TF2 wiki: Tab opens the scoreboard with ping, the tf_scoreboard_ping_as_text 1 command shows a number instead of bars, and net_graph shows ping, frames and loss.^12,13

Sea of Thieves

Settings → Video: performance counters; since update 3.5.1 on PC you can keep only the ping, without FPS.¹⁴

Crossout

On the world map, the region selection button under the Battle button: ping and packet loss are shown for each region.¹⁵

Squad and Arma Reforger

The server browser shows the ping to every server before you join a match; Squad has a ping filter.^16,17

PUBG and Hunt: Showdown 1896

We found no official path to a ping display in these games' help pages, and we do not invent one. The game pages have what is known about regions and ping limits.

Detailed game pages: Counter-Strike 2 · Dota 2 · Deadlock · Apex Legends · Battlefield 6 · Fortnite · Rocket League · Rust · DayZ · Team Fortress 2 · Sea of Thieves · Crossout · Squad · Arma Reforger · PUBG: Battlegrounds · Hunt: Showdown 1896

How to read the numbers

• Ping is the time to the server and back. Compare it with other players' ping in the match: if everyone's is equally high, the server is far away or overloaded; if only yours is high, the cause is closer to home.
• Loss is packets that never arrived. On a quiet wired network there should be none; if it appears, check Wi-Fi, the cable, the router and downloads.
• Jitter and “network problems” show how evenly packets arrive. Spikes with a normal average ping are most often caused by Wi-Fi and downloads on the same line.
• All the network numbers are steady and the game still stutters — it is not the network: look at the frame rate and the load on your PC.

What SLARP fixes out of this: the path to the server. It routes the chosen game's traffic through its own network, picks the route and optimizes ping and jitter for the whole match. The region, Wi-Fi, the cable and FPS stay on your side — and the in-game numbers will show what changed and what did not.