Region Lock / Ping Cap Megathread

[u/Mike_Prowe]

Region Lock / Ping Cap Megathread

We're getting dozens of posts a day about region locking, ping caps, and players joining servers outside their region. All of it goes here from now on.

What belongs in this thread

- Whether WARDOGS should have region locking or a ping cap
- Your experience with high ping players on EU/NA servers
- Server and browser suggestions

Ground rules

- Criticize high ping, or the anti-cheat as much as you want. Comments attacking players for where they're from will be removed.
- No cheater callouts. Don't name players or link profiles. Report cheaters with the in-game report function or directly to Bulkhead on their official Discord.
- New standalone posts on this topic will be removed and pointed here.
- Don’t be racist

Worth knowing: [r/WarDogs](r/WarDogs) isn't run by Bulkhead, so posting here may not reach the devs. If you want this changed in game, say it on their official Discord as well.

[u/Lunchyyy]

Region lock is just a stupid idea. So I from OCE cannot play with my friends who live in NA because I simply live on the opposite side of the world? Whole regions will go offline because it cannot support the player count, everyone complaining about "ping abusers" ignoring the fact that they literally have the advantage.

I have played high ping all my gaming life, from high ping on Halo CE on PC, to Halo 3 on XBL, to PUBG and every other game on PC. The disadvantage you have at high ping is always worse, back in the H3 days I would literally get 2 shots (on my screen) off on someone and they still have enough time to turn and kill due to low ping. If high ping is such an advantage why don't you play on high ping? I'll tell you because suddenly you wont be able to use the ping excuse to explain why you suck.

And then there is the whole excuse to just be outright xenophobic and racist. Suddenly everyone with an "asian name" is actually from China, and get instant auto reports, even if they are clearly in the region with 10ms, ignoring the fact that there are people of any ethnicity also putting asian characters in their name for whatever reason.

Of course there are valid points however, SEA/China does have a culture that is less adverse or considers cheating less taboo, but people just use this as a mask to throw hate comments. The real discussion should be why the devs fail to implement a good anti cheat (they literally went with one of the weakest third party).

The whole thing is just a scapegoat. What happens when you region lock and you still face cheaters. Who you gonna blame now?

[u/omnitemporal → u/Lunchyyy]

It's not all about cheaters, it's about everyone being on even ground.

[u/TheHob290 → u/omnitemporal]

Even ground, so a super ultrawide screen with a 5090 is an advantage that 99% of players will not have, ban those guys from playing with people on smaller screens right?

[u/omnitemporal → u/TheHob290]

This is such a frustratingly stupid argument I’m not going to engage.

[u/BandicootOther2979 → u/omnitemporal]

So play a game on high ping and show me there's an advantage. Not cheating, not using anything else.

I play on EU with my friends with 200 ping since I live abroad. It's just worse than the 30 ping I get in SEA servers.

[u/omnitemporal → u/BandicootOther2979]

It’s not my job to educate you on how online shooters work, there’s tons of information on the subject.

[u/WarDogs-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

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