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

[Tony Leung Chu-Wai]

Guys this is not as reasonable as you think. I live with my friend in one country, he is in APAC region and I'm in Europe. We both should be in europe since Kazakhstan has bad routing to APAC. Please reconsider

[Tony Leung Chu-Wai]

Nevermind, my friend just don't want to play the game anymore because of this feature.

[MightySlime]

Originally posted by Fulcrum.Armulus:

Quick update: we will open cross-region partying with a ping cutoff point. We will NOT open region switching function. This decision was made to accommodate players who want to play with friends, but the decision to keep regions is to ensure game performance. (If you got put in a wrong region, that's a different issue and we can switch you from the backend). It will be up in about two weeks, around Dec 20th.

is there any idea as to what number this ping cutoff may be set too?

[Yoshi]

Why do a region lock instead of connectiong people by ping? Like I'm from western Europe and I can usually have a better connection with let's say people from Eastern US than a dude from EU playing on mcdonalds wifi. Plus I usually play late at night when EU servers are dead so wth do I do?? I don't think this game is going to be popular enough to make a region lock work in this situation. ALSO a lot of people from EU barely understand english so all the more reason why I don't want to be stuck with only them??

[A1Mami]

Servers

I know most of you probably enjoying the game just like i did until i realised i cant play with my boyfriend across the world. so i thought let me make a new account and select the same country and GUESS WHAT? it ip tracks so even if you make a usa account but not in the usa, your account will be locked to your ip region.

what is the point?
please allow us to play accross servers

[Luxaeterna]

Officially, high lag and latency, the devs seem to not want compromise lag experience for now.

However in December 20 update, they will be implementing a soft work around. One can party up with other players from other regions, provided they can pass a certain ping latency threshold according to devs pinned announcement.

[Erma Gersh]

I prefered the region lock

Now I get matches with 220 ping.

[Thirteen]

B-But... The region lock is still in place?

[Luxaeterna]

Region lock will be softlifted update is still scheduled on December 20 update.

[Clockwyrk]

region lock isnt off until the 20th of this month though

[TimeTimeTime]

Region locked does make sense, though. Maybe people are using VPNS? That's the usual way to get around it. They get a VPN in the country, so the USA by the servers to play.

I notice people with foreign accents over the mic, now, and 200 pings, too. Maybe they are just far away from the servers in the US, but after you noticed it, too, maybe they are using VPNS to get around, as gamers often do.

Now, the gameplay feels like playing against pros and streamers, lol. It's not as fun for me. However, Region lock makes sense because you will get global people flooding local servers, then the servers might get overwhelmed, too.

On top of that, I am unsure how many cheaters are on this game, but allowing global access would increase the odds of getting them in your local area. I heard about the softlock, but I think it's about people with pings below a certain number. Not sure what that number is.

[Erma Gersh]

Didn't they expand the range for ranked games?

[Shiro♌]

Sounds like you're not connected to servers within your region, thus have such huge latency numbers.

In all honesty, I don't think the game would be fun with players of ~200+ ping in lobbies.. Especially if they lock-in Kokona, Kanami, and those high-risk high-reward types of agents, who do rely on the feedback more than anybody else.

[Wikaiii]

Thank you for respond <3
W dev

[Sonikyo]

i am on apac and i invited all my friends which most of em are american to play this game well guess what we couldnt even play together and by us i mean ME this left me heart broken please add crossplay i love this game and so did my friends