Why allow VPN players??

that's what their hit whatever thingies on the test servers are for. there are plenty of people who's vpns give some apps issues even when split tunneling is a function available, for example activision's launcher gives me ######### even trying to run hearthstone even when the vpn is set to only function on the web browser through split tunneling. as such I don't use it while I'm actually using the computer, and as such, I'm reduced to botting hearthstone if i can rarely play it. Since I'm not gonna shut down my vpn at some dev's whim. The government is demanding enough these days to let some suit executive or pissant developer tell me how to use my computer too. they can frak off and so can any game doing that unless theyw anna buy the game and pay for my internet for me. Half of them are probably 'socialists' these days anyways so it should sound like a good idea.

yeah that is probablys hady typically, but I have no idea what's like living under a government like china's (not yet anyway) so they might have good reasons for trying to play on other servers even if it just comes down to something like ######### graphical censorship or too much censorship on the chat or something else equally silly to be imposed by a government on games running servers there. For an american (or anybody elsewhere) to do that on non local servers though, without a good enough reason like you get matches two or three times as fast on s canadian IP over an american one, it's a pretty douche move and probably intended to be used as a softcore ('legal' or mild) cheat. I use american proxies in my vpn, outside of rare situations when I wanna view something region blocked (lol region block on the internet talk about governments and industries need to get with the times).

lol an hour and a half a day, and probably not able to stack that time up from during the week and use it all at once on the weekends. I would honestly not see full priced games worth paying for if we had to deal with that bs since I'd never get use out of them or even realistically finish more than 2 or 3 a year and some longer games couldn't even be fully enjoyed or finished for years like tes or witcher 3 with expansions. I would have pirated the games since the restrictions would obviously be circumvented that way, able to play as much as wanted without feeling as if money had been wasted on something hardly able to be used. No wonder groups like 3dm existed over there, they were basically necessary over there. At least even if they paid for it just to be able to actually use what they paid for even having to ironically apply cracks to the games they bought lmfao. And our american politicians 'look up to' china (or enjoy the kickbacks), a dark winter indeed, a bunch of them to come some day probably. The day we get that sort of bs over here is the day I would never pay for a video game I played ever again. I would go full blackbeard including things like steam emu.

Far better idea to make it so high latency is always a disadvantage than trying to mess with VPNs in particular. That's the goal of the hit validation system at least.

If someone VPNs to a different city or something for basic privacy purposes or even to a nearby country to avoid country-specific restrictions it won't be the end of the world for them. Meanwhile someone that VPNs as far away as possible specifically to mess with their latency will have trouble. There's all sorts of perfectly valid reasons to use a VPN so it's better to do it that way.

And of course that will still cause some "collateral damage". People in very sparsely populated regions, people in areas with no nearby servers. But just like something like the DC penalty system, there will always be some collateral damage with perfectly innocent people getting hit with it. Best that can be done is try to minimize that, as it will always happen.

Yeah I've certainly heard a lot of bad about it and can't say much about how it works as I personally don't end up in high-latency lobbies myself, but it seemed like the idea behind it was to make sure any disadvantages that come with high latency fall on the player(s) that actually have latency. The idea is good, but sure seems like it needs a lot more work.

I agree with the idea and goal behind it but it obviously has to work properly to be good. And I'm fully aware it isn't intended as an anti-VPN "abuse" feature, that's just a source potential source of high latency like any other.

EDIT: Especially needs more work if it causes weird behavior even with lower latency. Again, idea good execution not so much for now.

Same here.

The highest ping i got in a lobby was 1100. I made a screenshot and dodged.

Unfortunately, you might have good ping, the other 4 players can still have bad latency. You cant see theirs, cause it would make you dodge more, probably.

The matchmaking is not region locked, but ppl can still VPN if they want to.

It is not hard to realize an obvious issue, so the only thing i can think of is that they are just simply not capable to fix it.

What did you do to their cereal to make them do that?

Uhhhhh, that's a good question.

I was playing Myers and I thought it was a normal game.