Is using a VPN to change location bannable?
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I play mostly solo Q, and I'm in the EU. My team mates are worse than questionable, and I'm sure a lot of people who play EU will agree and know exactly what type of team mates I'm mentioning.
So, would it be bannable for someone to use a VPN? Anyone else has experience with this?
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I don't know. I don't think so? I think some regions have to use a VPN to have at all tolerable queue times, but a lot of folk use VPN's purely to have high latency. Not saying that's what your using it for, I completely understand the pain of Solo.
Depending where you were thinking of, I'm afraid teammates are still questionable. At least on the East Coast.
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i wish
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Sometimes I play swf with american players, and the max ping I get is 120, which isnt bad IMO.
Dont lag during the game at all on my end so I was hoping it wouldnt make a difference for anyone else in the match either.
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Let me ask you, are you in the EU too? Do you know the location of players I'm referring to?
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It could definitely be worse than 120. It might look a little wonky in the killer's end, but I don't think lag like that is bannable. I used to have real ######### internet.
I would assume only blatant examples of lagswitching and using a VPN for high ping would be bannable, but you'd have to ask a mod in this case.
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No, mainly because it's untraceable.
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It should be bannable because you're lying to the dbd server making it believe you're in a different country but unfortunately it's not
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I'm not asking if it should, I'm asking if it is.
That issue would be fixed if they added more servers to other countries, I shouldnt be getting players from almost asia when I'm in Portugal.
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I'm EU, who keep getting put up against Asia and Australian players
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Those people could be VPN'ing themselves. I myself have faced people who's locations were set to the US or Japan. I also live in Europe fyi. Personally, I wish that using a VPN was bannable but it unfortunately, it may not be bannable.
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don't think so, but just please be reasonable about it.
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Some one in EU actually saying they have had teammates?
This is a sight to see
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I’ve never heard of a single person being banned for this so I doubt it. How do you prove it was a VPN?
I doubt the devs will 100% confirm it either way though. They probably don’t want to make people confident about doing something that technically is against the rules, just hard to prove.
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VPNs are part of the internet, you're better of getting use to them instead of nerd raging and thinking they are BS, the internet is an ocean and VPNs are a fish, they aren't going anywhere and people should really stop complaining about them, their very nature makes them impossible to regulate.
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There is no question.
If you use third party software (for whatever reason you say) to gain advantage on your opponents, you should be banned. Period.
Unfortunately, BHVR does not have assets and human resources to figure this problem out...that is your only luck...my dear VPN-ing friend...
You can not expect anything positive in this, since they are unable to region lock the matchmaking. Im consistently getting matched with players i should have never ever matched with...
...so until that point they finish their study in the related topics, i will automatically dodge certain lobbies.
This can be done when the Q is instant.
Otherwise...i just dont play...
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I would use one to make it harder for people to DDoS me if I could.
As it stands, I've lost a router and I'm averaging about 3 boots a week.
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Using a vpn doesn't matter anymore. Before validation checks, a VPN was basically cheating at vaults and pallets.
Although currently dysfunctional, validation checks basically render the vpn delays invalid; servers will award or deny the hit based on conditions/variables that led up to an event that required validation
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I seriously doubt so. If so, I'd be in trouble since I sometimes leave it on (although it's still on the East Coast). Even if people VPNing a continent away might be annoying, it's kinda ridiculous for a company to demand that you give them your actual location. Beyond that, a server won't be able to tell the difference.
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