Remove the Kernel level anti-cheat

[Squatting Samurai]

Wanted to tried it out, started downloading, read that it is using a kernel level anti-cheat, stopped the download and removed from account. Do better.

[Squatting Samurai]

Publicado originalmente por Nevermore:

Publicado originalmente por Jinx:

you know whats funny even steam uses a kernel anti cheat. so are you gonna quit and delete your steam account?

No, Steam does not use or have any kernel level anti cheat.

I assume they are referring to VAC which is used in Counter Strike, Dota and some other games. Valve also added the VAC API to Steamworks so a lot of people can use a variation of it when developing their games.

[Syncroniam]

Hope they keep it so we can keep crybaby cheaters like you out the game.

[Belgarel]

Beware that the anti-cheat, ACE. doesn't uninstall. It just spins for several minutes if you try it saying it's uninstalling before failing. It's also locked up my taskbar and has several windows that can't be closed. I'll have to reboot and fight to remove this thing.

EDIT: So to get rid of ACE after the uninstall failed, I deleted C:\Program Files\AntiCheatExpert as it has the service, rebooted, then deleted HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\AntiCheatExpert in the registry to remove the uninstall entry. Hopefully that's all of it and the uninstaller had done most of the work.

[v^v^v^v^√\/]

Publicado originalmente por Squatting Samurai:

Publicado originalmente por kSAntiS:

The fewer people like you will be in the community of this game the better the community will be. Hypocrisy should be illegal

There might be a language barrier since I believe the way I explained my stance on this whole debacle is clear enough and is not hypocritical at all. But again, I'm not going to argue with a Russian about hypocrisy and what's legal and what's not. I've heard enough about that over the past years.

Man, I hate russians but even I must acknowledge that a take 'you are hypocrite cause you are russian and I'm not because i'm american" is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ one. Russia started doing sh.t like this because americans were doing sh.t like this for many years. So their logic was "if they can, why we can't". There might be, but I'm not sure, countries who may speak from a higher moral ground, but it's definitely not US.

[Squatting Samurai]

Publicado originalmente por v^v^v^v^√\/:

Publicado originalmente por Squatting Samurai:

There might be a language barrier since I believe the way I explained my stance on this whole debacle is clear enough and is not hypocritical at all. But again, I'm not going to argue with a Russian about hypocrisy and what's legal and what's not. I've heard enough about that over the past years.

Man, I hate russians but even I must acknowledge that a take 'you are hypocrite cause you are russian and I'm not because i'm american" is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ one. Russia started doing sh.t like this because americans were doing sh.t like this for many years. So their logic was "if they can, why we can't". There might be, but I'm not sure, countries who may speak from a higher moral ground, but it's definitely not US.

Well, good thing I am Ukrainian then and have every right to call out Russian hypocrisy.

The logic is flawed because while yes, USA was invading other countries and performing different operations, it was generally accepted by the international community and they had some valid reasons (arguably) that were recognized by others (including Russia to a point), even when it was technically "illegal", like with the invasion of Iraq. However, even despite that, the primary goal of those wars was not occupation/annexation/expansion of territories/genocide (that last one is debatable). There is a very big difference between what USA was doing, and what Russia is doing. USA, also, did not have every single media source blasting propaganda about how Iraqi/Afghan/Syrian etc. people are subhumans that do not deserve to live and should not be treated as humans because A, B, and C. USA military officials that authorized illegal orders or soldiers that performed those illegal orders, or straight up disobeyed the rules and committed crimes against humanity are being dragged from court to court for committing war crimes, both internationally and within USA itself to this day, and every couple months you hear about yet another "hero" being charged with horrible things he thought would be forgotten. US has launched countless investigations into all the soldiers who might have committed war crimes and typically punish them, although you had to do some messed up ♥♥♥♥ to actually be found guilty because obviously the system is biased, but at least they are doing something. Either way, USA is prosecuting their own for committing those things. Russia is not. Russia gives them medals and tours them around the country as heroes. Russia wants more people like them because they are fighting a VERY different war.

So yeah, let's not talk about hypocrisy.

Edit: and if we are being truthful, it's not like Russia only started doing this type of stuff recently "because USA did it". That is just a new excuse their propaganda machine is using in regards to Ukraine specifically. Soviet Union (which was basically controller by Russia, let's be honest) has done similar things in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan in the 50s-80s. Russia itself has invaded/performed operations in Moldova in 1992, Chechnya in 90s-2000s, Georgia in 2008, Ukraine in 2014-present, Syria in 2015-present, Kazakhstan in 2022. They have been doing this for just as long as USA has, and put boots on ground/invaded/annexed just as many countries since WW2 as USA did. The only difference being that, again, USA does not take over those territories in any way, shape or form apart from political influence. All the countries that USA has "visited" remain independent and with their own agendas, cultures, languages, political and religious views, currency, educational systems, etc., just allied with the west. You could consider that as "annexation" and "taking over," but it's not really that. One could even make an argument that the countries USA invaded "deserved it" due to A, B and C, although I don't see it that way and think that a full-on military invasion is unjustified regardless of what reasons there are. However, Russia is specifically expanding their territories and physically taking over the countries while destroying the culture and freedoms of the people there. South Ossetia, Transnistria, Chechnya and now occupied territories of Ukraine do not retain any of their original political structures and are ran from Moscow. That is the difference

[Syncroniam]

Publicado originalmente por Squatting Samurai:

Publicado originalmente por v^v^v^v^√\/:

Man, I hate russians but even I must acknowledge that a take 'you are hypocrite cause you are russian and I'm not because i'm american" is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ one. Russia started doing sh.t like this because americans were doing sh.t like this for many years. So their logic was "if they can, why we can't". There might be, but I'm not sure, countries who may speak from a higher moral ground, but it's definitely not US.

Well, good thing I am Ukrainian then and have every right to call out Russian hypocrisy.

The logic is flawed because while yes, USA was invading other countries and performing different operations, it was generally accepted by the international community and they had some valid reasons (arguably) that were recognized by others (including Russia to a point), even when it was technically "illegal", like with the invasion of Iraq. However, even despite that, the primary goal of those wars was not occupation/annexation/expansion of territories/genocide (that last one is debatable). There is a very big difference between what USA was doing, and what Russia is doing. USA, also, did not have every single media source blasting propaganda about how Iraqi/Afghan/Syrian etc. people are subhumans that do not deserve to live and should not be treated as humans because A, B, and C. USA military officials are being dragged from court to court for committing war crimes, both internationally and within USA itself. US has launched countless investigations into all the soldiers who might have committed war crimes and typically punish them (although you had to do some messed up ♥♥♥♥ to actually be found guilty). Either way, USA is prosecuting their own for committing those things. Russia is not. Russia gives them medals and tours them around the country as heroes.

So yeah, let's not talk about hypocrisy.

The Russians did nothing wrong, they are the unspoken heroes of this current generation. It's not rocket science.

[Squatting Samurai]

Publicado originalmente por Syncroniam:

Publicado originalmente por Squatting Samurai:

Well, good thing I am Ukrainian then and have every right to call out Russian hypocrisy.

The logic is flawed because while yes, USA was invading other countries and performing different operations, it was generally accepted by the international community and they had some valid reasons (arguably) that were recognized by others (including Russia to a point), even when it was technically "illegal", like with the invasion of Iraq. However, even despite that, the primary goal of those wars was not occupation/annexation/expansion of territories/genocide (that last one is debatable). There is a very big difference between what USA was doing, and what Russia is doing. USA, also, did not have every single media source blasting propaganda about how Iraqi/Afghan/Syrian etc. people are subhumans that do not deserve to live and should not be treated as humans because A, B, and C. USA military officials are being dragged from court to court for committing war crimes, both internationally and within USA itself. US has launched countless investigations into all the soldiers who might have committed war crimes and typically punish them (although you had to do some messed up ♥♥♥♥ to actually be found guilty). Either way, USA is prosecuting their own for committing those things. Russia is not. Russia gives them medals and tours them around the country as heroes.

So yeah, let's not talk about hypocrisy.

The Russians did nothing wrong, they are the unspoken heroes of this current generation. It's not rocket science.

Lol. Lmao, even.

[v^v^v^v^√\/]

Publicado originalmente por Squatting Samurai:

Publicado originalmente por v^v^v^v^√\/:

Man, I hate russians but even I must acknowledge that a take 'you are hypocrite cause you are russian and I'm not because i'm american" is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ one. Russia started doing sh.t like this because americans were doing sh.t like this for many years. So their logic was "if they can, why we can't". There might be, but I'm not sure, countries who may speak from a higher moral ground, but it's definitely not US.

Well, good thing I am Ukrainian then and have every right to call out Russian hypocrisy.

The logic is flawed because while yes, USA was invading other countries and performing different operations, it was generally accepted by the international community and they had some valid reasons (arguably) that were recognized by others (including Russia to a point), even when it was technically "illegal", like with the invasion of Iraq. However, even despite that, the primary goal of those wars was not occupation/annexation/expansion of territories/genocide (that last one is debatable). There is a very big difference between what USA was doing, and what Russia is doing. USA, also, did not have every single media source blasting propaganda about how Iraqi/Afghan/Syrian etc. people are subhumans that do not deserve to live and should not be treated as humans because A, B, and C. USA military officials that authorized illegal orders or soldiers that performed those illegal orders, or straight up disobeyed the rules and committed crimes against humanity are being dragged from court to court for committing war crimes, both internationally and within USA itself to this day, and every couple months you hear about yet another "hero" being charged with horrible things he thought would be forgotten. US has launched countless investigations into all the soldiers who might have committed war crimes and typically punish them, although you had to do some messed up ♥♥♥♥ to actually be found guilty because obviously the system is biased, but at least they are doing something. Either way, USA is prosecuting their own for committing those things. Russia is not. Russia gives them medals and tours them around the country as heroes. Russia wants more people like them because they are fighting a VERY different war.

So yeah, let's not talk about hypocrisy.

Edit: and if we are being truthful, it's not like Russia only started doing this type of stuff recently "because USA did it". That is just a new excuse their propaganda machine is using in regards to Ukraine specifically. Soviet Union (which was basically controller by Russia, let's be honest) has done similar things in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan in the 50s-80s. Russia itself has invaded/performed operations in Moldova in 1992, Chechnya in 90s-2000s, Georgia in 2008, Ukraine in 2014-present, Syria in 2015-present, Kazakhstan in 2022. They have been doing this for just as long as USA has, and put boots on ground/invaded/annexed just as many countries since WW2 as USA did. The only difference being that, again, USA does not take over those territories in any way, shape or form apart from political influence. All the countries that USA has "visited" remain independent and with their own agendas, cultures, languages, political and religious views, currency, educational systems, etc., just allied with the west. You could consider that as "annexation" and "taking over," but it's not really that. One could even make an argument that the countries USA invaded "deserved it" due to A, B and C, although I don't see it that way and think that a full-on military invasion is unjustified regardless of what reasons there are. However, Russia is specifically expanding their territories and physically taking over the countries while destroying the culture and freedoms of the people there. South Ossetia, Transnistria, Chechnya and now occupied territories of Ukraine do not retain any of their original political structures and are ran from Moscow. That is the difference

"USA, also, did not have every single media source blasting propaganda about how Iraqi/Afghan/Syrian etc. people are subhumans"
You mean like Ukrainian propaganda towards russians?
I can read both russian & ukrainian.

"USA military officials that authorized illegal orders or soldiers that performed those illegal orders, or straight up disobeyed the rules and committed crimes against humanity are being dragged from court to court for committing war crimes, both internationally and within USA itself to this day, and every couple months you hear about yet another "hero" being charged with horrible things he thought would be forgotten."
Bullsh1t. Instead, they hunt whistleblowers who made those facts public.

"They have been doing this for just as long as USA has"
exactly. That's the reason why you shouldn't speak from higher moral ground while having US in your profile as YOUR country.

" One could even make an argument that the countries USA invaded "deserved it" due to A, B and C"
Well russia has its own A, B, C why it is invaded Ukraine.

" occupied territories of Ukraine do not retain any of their original political structures"
Did Iraq retain it's original political structure?

I'm on Ukrainian side of this conflict, but I hate US as much as I hate russia.

NB: if you'd properly stated Ukraine as your country, I wouldn't even bother to reply. Because as ukrainian you have all rights to speak bad about russians & russia.

[long chin man]

mods can u please delete the 4 wordswordswordswords replies above me? Its using up all my bandwidth loading all these unicode characters. theyre tryna derail the thread again to talk about some useless third-world conflict that I genuinely dont care about and neither should anyone else

most games use kernel-level anticheat. does it work? lol most of the time no xdddd. any anticheat in every single game ive ever seen is pretty piss-poor. they need to region lock the "problem nations" so they can just play with themselves so its just cheater vs cheater

Publicado originalmente por v^v^v^v^√\/:

I'm on Ukrainian side of this conflict, but I hate US as much as I hate russia.

fyi nobody asked

[v^v^v^v^√\/]

Publicado originalmente por long chin man:

mods can u please delete the 4 wordswordswordswords replies above me? Its using up all my bandwidth loading all these unicode characters. theyre tryna derail the thread again to talk about some useless third-world conflict that I genuinely dont care about and neither should anyone else

most games use kernel-level anticheat. does it work? lol most of the time no xdddd. any anticheat in every single game ive ever seen is pretty piss-poor. they need to region lock the "problem nations" so they can just play with themselves so its just cheater vs cheater

Publicado originalmente por v^v^v^v^√\/:

I'm on Ukrainian side of this conflict, but I hate US as much as I hate russia.

fyi nobody asked

Wasn't talking to you, buddy.
So if YOU didn't ask, and not interested, just go your way.
" Its using up all my bandwidth loading all these unicode characters."
nobody asked.
No need to break rules and play moderator here.
You want moderator reaction? Report. You have a button for that.

[Cryptix]

Publicado originalmente por Squatting Samurai:

Publicado originalmente por Ankarin:

And yet, Helldivers 2, Halo MCE and Warthunder that you've played recently, and the game you are playing right now, Space Marine 2, all use kernel level anti-cheats as well. Do you have threads for all those games complaining about them as well?

Better stop playing Space Marine 2, and start uninstalling those games now!

Publicado originalmente por Jinx:

you know whats funny even steam uses a kernel anti cheat. so are you gonna quit and delete your steam account?

Always the extreme takes coming from chronically online. I love how you go from "be cool with everyone having access to your private data without saying a word about it" to "Delete your steam account" and "stop playing all these other games" as if there is no in-between. Such a naive-minded take. Yeah, let me go ahead and delete my whole Steam account and never play any other games from any company ever in my life because there just can't be a middle ground and a threshold to what's acceptable and what isn't, right? You guys are funny

No, I don't have threads complaining about other kernel-level anti-cheats. I am perfectly aware that most popular anti-cheat solutions run at kernel level. However, there is a very big difference between playing a game from a somewhat reputable and transparent (to a degree) company like Steam, Microsoft, Gaijin (lol) or Sony that implement widely popular anti-cheat software used by literally half the industry like EAC or VAC, and playing a free-to-play Chinese off-brand Battlefield game from a no-name team with barely any history from who knows where backed by non other than TiMi Studio Group aka Tencent that is using a "G.T.I Security" anti cheat that - you guessed it - nobody has ever heard of or knows how bad it is. Yet.

Based on my quick research, a lot of people have came to the conclusion that it is basically spyware with unclear EULA (or lack thereof because the websites and documents are all in Chinese) that remains on your PC invisible even after you delete it. EAC or VAC is nothing compared to a shady Chinese spyware in a free-to-play(!!!) game that is near impossible to remove even after the game has been deleted and requires special tools to get rid of - unlike VAC or EAC. I think the fact that this anti-cheat is extremely hard to remove from your computer to the point where you have to scrub it off using specialized tools is a clear indication that it should not ever be installed on your computer. Just how I will never download and install Valorant or any other Riot Games products - their anti-cheat behaves the same as this one, and also would linger on my PC invisible to me unless I use specialized software to get rid of it, and that could potentially brick the PC. Read about it, it happened to others before. Some hackers were even able to access people's computers remotely due to a data breech at Riot. Now, I know that happened with EAC and Apex Legends, but from all my research it was more of a server breech with Apex specifically and not EAC. EAC is Easy to bypass. but so far there have not been major, EAC-wide breeches like that. The only two games that have been affected were Apex and Rust, while all others seem to be doing fine. And I don't play either of those, so it doesn't affect me.

Other people on this same community hub have reported that their anti-virus software flags this anti-cheat as malware too. Surprise-surprise, that does not happen with EAC, VAC or even Helldiver 2's nProtect GameGuard. That is another red flag for me.

Anyway, if you can't see or don't think there is a difference in transparency and safety between anti-cheats like EAC or VAC and this crap - I won't argue with you, but I also disagree with you. That's your opinion. Enjoy this game when (if) it comes out and who knows, maybe this anti-cheat is not that bad, and literally everybody is wrong about it, and Tencent is definitely not going to go through every single file on your computer. I doubt it though.

I hope I made myself clear enough on this matter. You guys, of course, can continue being funny little jokers, taking everything to the extreme, personally mocking me and defending this project that hasn't even came out yet and will most likely die within a month or so.

Well said tbh.

People need to stop green-flagging or red-flagging all Kernal level anti-cheat together and should only allow it on a case-by-case basis, based on how reputable and trustworthy the company who is doing it is.

Though I will say, popular and reputable doesn't mean safer. All kernal level software has its risks, but I agree it's completely reasonable to want to know who's doing it and try to stop literally every company from doing it.

[Doom Sayer]

TLDR
https://youtu.be/OjNpRbNdR7E
Also I prefer chinese at least they arent traitors to me like westerners.

[kSAntiS]

Publicado originalmente por Squatting Samurai:

Publicado originalmente por kSAntiS:

The fewer people like you will be in the community of this game the better the community will be. Hypocrisy should be illegal

There might be a language barrier since I believe the way I explained my stance on this whole debacle is clear enough and is not hypocritical at all. But again, I'm not going to argue with a Russian about hypocrisy and what's legal and what's not. I've heard enough about that over the past years.

Added Xenophobia to already obvious Hypocrisy? Feets you well, again expecting you to leave the community and this Discussion thread asap.

[Squatting Samurai]

Publicado originalmente por v^v^v^v^√\/:

Publicado originalmente por Squatting Samurai:

Well, good thing I am Ukrainian then and have every right to call out Russian hypocrisy.

The logic is flawed because while yes, USA was invading other countries and performing different operations, it was generally accepted by the international community and they had some valid reasons (arguably) that were recognized by others (including Russia to a point), even when it was technically "illegal", like with the invasion of Iraq. However, even despite that, the primary goal of those wars was not occupation/annexation/expansion of territories/genocide (that last one is debatable). There is a very big difference between what USA was doing, and what Russia is doing. USA, also, did not have every single media source blasting propaganda about how Iraqi/Afghan/Syrian etc. people are subhumans that do not deserve to live and should not be treated as humans because A, B, and C. USA military officials that authorized illegal orders or soldiers that performed those illegal orders, or straight up disobeyed the rules and committed crimes against humanity are being dragged from court to court for committing war crimes, both internationally and within USA itself to this day, and every couple months you hear about yet another "hero" being charged with horrible things he thought would be forgotten. US has launched countless investigations into all the soldiers who might have committed war crimes and typically punish them, although you had to do some messed up ♥♥♥♥ to actually be found guilty because obviously the system is biased, but at least they are doing something. Either way, USA is prosecuting their own for committing those things. Russia is not. Russia gives them medals and tours them around the country as heroes. Russia wants more people like them because they are fighting a VERY different war.

So yeah, let's not talk about hypocrisy.

Edit: and if we are being truthful, it's not like Russia only started doing this type of stuff recently "because USA did it". That is just a new excuse their propaganda machine is using in regards to Ukraine specifically. Soviet Union (which was basically controller by Russia, let's be honest) has done similar things in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan in the 50s-80s. Russia itself has invaded/performed operations in Moldova in 1992, Chechnya in 90s-2000s, Georgia in 2008, Ukraine in 2014-present, Syria in 2015-present, Kazakhstan in 2022. They have been doing this for just as long as USA has, and put boots on ground/invaded/annexed just as many countries since WW2 as USA did. The only difference being that, again, USA does not take over those territories in any way, shape or form apart from political influence. All the countries that USA has "visited" remain independent and with their own agendas, cultures, languages, political and religious views, currency, educational systems, etc., just allied with the west. You could consider that as "annexation" and "taking over," but it's not really that. One could even make an argument that the countries USA invaded "deserved it" due to A, B and C, although I don't see it that way and think that a full-on military invasion is unjustified regardless of what reasons there are. However, Russia is specifically expanding their territories and physically taking over the countries while destroying the culture and freedoms of the people there. South Ossetia, Transnistria, Chechnya and now occupied territories of Ukraine do not retain any of their original political structures and are ran from Moscow. That is the difference

"USA, also, did not have every single media source blasting propaganda about how Iraqi/Afghan/Syrian etc. people are subhumans"
You mean like Ukrainian propaganda towards russians?
I can read both russian & ukrainian.

"USA military officials that authorized illegal orders or soldiers that performed those illegal orders, or straight up disobeyed the rules and committed crimes against humanity are being dragged from court to court for committing war crimes, both internationally and within USA itself to this day, and every couple months you hear about yet another "hero" being charged with horrible things he thought would be forgotten."
Bullsh1t. Instead, they hunt whistleblowers who made those facts public.

"They have been doing this for just as long as USA has"
exactly. That's the reason why you shouldn't speak from higher moral ground while having US in your profile as YOUR country.

" One could even make an argument that the countries USA invaded "deserved it" due to A, B and C"
Well russia has its own A, B, C why it is invaded Ukraine.

" occupied territories of Ukraine do not retain any of their original political structures"
Did Iraq retain it's original political structure?

I'm on Ukrainian side of this conflict, but I hate US as much as I hate russia.

NB: if you'd properly stated Ukraine as your country, I wouldn't even bother to reply. Because as ukrainian you have all rights to speak bad about russians & russia.

Ну, раз ти сказав що розумієш російську та українську, напишу тобі українською, раз не віриш мені коли я тобі про свою національність говорю бо у мене в профілі США стоїть. А те що у мене на аватарі прапор України і церкви позаду - це тебе не здивувало? Лол.

Росія вторглась в Україну. Не навпаки. Росія почала цей конфлікт в 2013-2014 році. Не навпаки. Росія ставила і до сих пір ставить палки у коліса коли йде питання зупинки війни чи обмін полоненими. Росія з перших днів повномасштабного вторгнення б'є по цивильним об'єктам: лікарням, школам, університетами, багатоповерхівкам і т.д. Не Україна. Якщо Росія припинить воювати - війна закінчиться. Якщо Україна припинить воювати - України не буде. Будь-яка підтримка Росії в цьому конфлікті і будь-яка протидія чи супереч Україні йде на користь Росії, тому не треба тут говорити про українську пропаганду. Мені, особисто, до фені що і коли США робила в Іраці чи інших країнах. Я про це почав говорити і виправдовувати дії штатів тільки тому що ти вирішив пограти в морально сірого воїна і використати традиційну відмовку "ну, США це робили, значить і Росії можна",

"Bullsh1t. Instead, they hunt whistleblowers who made those facts public."
Звичайно. Вони будуть замовчувати усе що можуть, але коли не можуть - вони хоча би зроблять вигляд що шукають винних та карають їх. В США не дуже люблять розказувати про те ще і як вони з "коричневими" на Близькому Сході робили, і навіть коли починають про це говорити - більша частина населення це не одобрює. В Росії ніякого сорому через війну та вторгнення в Україну ні у кого немає: усі - від дітей в дитсадку до пенсіонерів в лікарнях - за Путіна і його режим, за війну, і проти України. Усій країні промили мізки і вони знайдуть будь які виправдування чи конспіраційні теорії чому і що відбулось. Мені, як українцю, усе-одно хто і що і як в США робив, але не усе-одно на те що Росія робить. Капіш?

[Super Droll]

Publicado originalmente por long chin man:

mods can u please delete the 4 wordswordswordswords replies above me? Its using up all my bandwidth loading all these unicode characters. theyre tryna derail the thread again to talk about some useless third-world conflict that I genuinely dont care about and neither should anyone else

most games use kernel-level anticheat. does it work? lol most of the time no xdddd. any anticheat in every single game ive ever seen is pretty piss-poor. they need to region lock the "problem nations" so they can just play with themselves so its just cheater vs cheater

Publicado originalmente por v^v^v^v^√\/:

I'm on Ukrainian side of this conflict, but I hate US as much as I hate russia.

fyi nobody asked

Pretty much every game ends up region locking people like Russians and Brazilians, they just use VPNs to avoid it because they're so insufferable they don't even want to play with themselves.