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Re: Using VPN to change regions to play with international friend

Granted this won't work for "middle ground" servers like you want... but if you or your friend wants to bite the bullet and deal with the ping manually you can do what me and a friend do... my friend is in Oceania and I'm in US West. They don't mind the 200+ ping as much as I do, so I:

Start a party in game
DON'T have them join yet
Start matchmaking
The MOMENT it finds a game and chimes at you > hit invite on your friend
It keeps the USW server it found and your friend loads into the loading screen fine to start the game together

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aceace33333
3 years ago
funny enough, my friend from India and I have used that same exact process too. Prob will just go back to that... too bad this game has such terrible ping bloat when playing with international friends.
I can play other pvp/multiplayer games with that same friend from India and - while the ping isn't great, it's no-where near as bad as 2042's is (300+). Dunno what the deal is.