About Region lock:

[Fulcrum.Armulus]

We've heard your feedback about region locking in Strinova. It's designed for optimal network performance, so not a bug. We're collecting feedback and working on improvements. Thanks for your patience! However, if you somehow got put into a region you are not in, that's a separate issue so please refer to the bug forum

[Margaret]

Their latest solution is not a solution at all. IF and only IF the whole idea or crossregion play with ping limit turnes to work, they still dont wanna do NOTHING about people mistakenly put on wrong region. Game support seems to be useless either ingame or email.

[Nyar]

A great advantage of the region lock.

It keeps the russians away from EU servers.

[SankaiVT]

stupid reason for locking region

[彡unreal彡]

in my opinion, the best solution in this situation is to allow players to change the region, and allow people to play with their friends from different regions without restrictions in normal mode.
in rating mode, the best ping in the available regions will be checked and the better region will be set automatically, ignoring the one that you set in the settings.
In that case, it will make at least some sense.
it all depends on the conscience of the developers

[Werdna]

Publicado originalmente por Fulcrum.Armulus:

OK, a quick update on the region lock situation: obviously this is a pretty significant issue, and in many ways breaking the regions apart goes against the philosophy of the game, which is, well, people can play with each other. As many of you have noted, during the closed beta regions are open. The decision to prevent cross-region plays is because there is a lot of ping pressure, and the gameplay quality decreased rather significantly if one player is in a different region. So, what do we do... well, we talked and worked on this, and the current thought we have is we will allow navigators to play with others from different regions, because playing with friends is important. But we will push forth a ping limit ensuring the quality of the game, and we won't allow people to change region. This way, we solve the problem, and maintain a balanced gameplay quality. This update may take some time as we need to test this and are working really hard. I will let people know as soon as possible when I know for sure. As well, I would love it if people give more feedback on if this would be a good idea. Nothing is set in stone yet.

Yeah I think the necessity of "Host of the group is already from the region A" is a good solution.
So if there's 2+ Smartasses that VPN their way somewhere where they should absolutely never be no matter what - it'll stop them.
But if one guy is 100% confirmed living in the region A then his friend playing with him is ok.
+ping lock of course is a must
If this doesn't satisfy someone - most likely the guy in question has a hidden agenda and want to utilize region switch to exploit something.

[helix]

They aren't silencing a movement. They're aware of the issue and taking steps to fix it.

They were silencing *you*, specifically, for inciting drama and being annoying.

[彡unreal彡]

Publicado originalmente por Inquisitor:

Publicado originalmente por Fulcrum.Armulus:

OK, a quick update on the region lock situation: obviously this is a pretty significant issue, and in many ways breaking the regions apart goes against the philosophy of the game, which is, well, people can play with each other. As many of you have noted, during the closed beta regions are open. The decision to prevent cross-region plays is because there is a lot of ping pressure, and the gameplay quality decreased rather significantly if one player is in a different region. So, what do we do... well, we talked and worked on this, and the current thought we have is we will allow navigators to play with others from different regions, because playing with friends is important. But we will push forth a ping limit ensuring the quality of the game, and we won't allow people to change region. This way, we solve the problem, and maintain a balanced gameplay quality. This update may take some time as we need to test this and are working really hard. I will let people know as soon as possible when I know for sure. As well, I would love it if people give more feedback on if this would be a good idea. Nothing is set in stone yet.

Yeah I think the necessity of "Host of the group is already from the region A" is a good solution.
So if there's 2+ Smartasses that VPN their way somewhere where they should absolutely never be no matter what - it'll stop them.
But if one guy is 100% confirmed living in the region A then his friend playing with him is ok.
+ping lock of course is a must
If this doesn't satisfy someone - most likely the guy in question has a hidden agenda and want to utilize region switch to exploit something.

the fact is that blocking regions will not help this game.
People have played and will play in any region they need.
the only question is whether this will be officially available, or whether it will require third-party software intervention (easier to say modifications).
Based on the latter, that's why people say that blocking regions is a stupid decision, and that the game will die soon.

[Werdna]

Publicado originalmente por 彡unreal彡:

Publicado originalmente por Inquisitor:

Yeah I think the necessity of "Host of the group is already from the region A" is a good solution.
So if there's 2+ Smartasses that VPN their way somewhere where they should absolutely never be no matter what - it'll stop them.
But if one guy is 100% confirmed living in the region A then his friend playing with him is ok.
+ping lock of course is a must
If this doesn't satisfy someone - most likely the guy in question has a hidden agenda and want to utilize region switch to exploit something.

the fact is that blocking regions will not help this game.
People have played and will play in any region they need.
the only question is whether this will be officially available, or whether it will require third-party software intervention (easier to say modifications).
Based on the latter, that's why people say that blocking regions is a stupid decision, and that the game will die soon.

Nothing will die soon. Coopers are never the center of competitive games.
As for "Those who want already can" you can say this about anything. Literally. Its about the fact that its HARDER to do. Its HARDER to find a turd-connection idiot who thinks he shouldn't stay where he belongs and comes to other servers.

[Expirit]

It's embarrassing how these devs are so fixated on keeping region lock when it's literally killing their game. Do they really expect anyone to look at a Chinese Valorant knockoff with a mixed review? Literally shoving a stick into their bicycle's wheel by themselves.

[Magaleta]

If you don't know.... Russia is part of the EU on regional servers (in Regional block)

[Werdna]

Publicado originalmente por Expirit:

It's embarrassing how these devs are so fixated on keeping region lock when it's literally killing their game. Do they really expect anyone to look at a Chinese Valorant knockoff with a mixed review? Literally shoving a stick into their bicycle's wheel by themselves.

The only thing is truly embarrassing is the fact that steam is by law is locked in certain region yet certain individuals still come here, on western platform, and try to appear as "majority".
Stay. Behind. "The Wall".

[彡unreal彡]

Publicado originalmente por Inquisitor:

Publicado originalmente por 彡unreal彡:

the fact is that blocking regions will not help this game.
People have played and will play in any region they need.
the only question is whether this will be officially available, or whether it will require third-party software intervention (easier to say modifications).
Based on the latter, that's why people say that blocking regions is a stupid decision, and that the game will die soon.

Nothing will die soon. Coopers are never the center of competitive games.
As for "Those who want already can" you can say this about anything. Literally. Its about the fact that its HARDER to do. Its HARDER to find a turd-connection idiot who thinks he shouldn't stay where he belongs and comes to other servers.

in this case, 90% of the people who are against blocking are those people who want to play with their friends from other regions, and not just because they don't want to be in their region.
(Nothing will die soon) is a controversial answer, a matter of time, first of all it depends on the decision made by the developers regarding this topic.
By the way, this topic is discussed not only here, there are really a lot of people who are against blocking, so the decision of the developers will greatly affect the continued existence of this game

[Werdna]

Clueless.

[Cyber Von Cyberus]

Hahaha, how clueless, I'm seeing plenty of russian players

[Werdna]

Publicado originalmente por 彡unreal彡:

Publicado originalmente por Inquisitor:

Nothing will die soon. Coopers are never the center of competitive games.
As for "Those who want already can" you can say this about anything. Literally. Its about the fact that its HARDER to do. Its HARDER to find a turd-connection idiot who thinks he shouldn't stay where he belongs and comes to other servers.

in this case, 90% of the people who are against blocking are those people who want to play with their friends from other regions, and not just because they don't want to be in their region.
(Nothing will die soon) is a controversial answer, a matter of time, first of all it depends on the decision made by the developers regarding this topic.
By the way, this topic is discussed not only here, there are really a lot of people who are against blocking, so the decision of the developers will greatly affect the continued existence of this game

As a solo player who's yet to find "Running Sniper Headshots Valorant-style" its only a plus for me that coop-elo-exploiters aka "artificial smoorfing" or "ping manipulators" are not being present.
I understand that this is a weeb game and weebs can't have irl friends from own region but I'm not like that so I can't understand why "Co-op casuals" are more important than Tryhards that feel even 0.01 sec difference.
This game's connectivity so far proved to be extraordinary good. I personally experienced several "mutual kills" where I killed the opponent and opponent killed me simultaneously. This literally NEVER happens in CS:GO or Valorant. I don't wish to lose this level of bullet registration for a couple of basement dwellers.