SkylarDurden Posted June 30, 2021 Posted June 30, 2021 I seem to be having problems with my geofilter not working. I am playing Warzone on an Xbox series X console and I recently subscribed to HMA and set up my hybrid vpn in hopes of using my geofilter to play on different servers around the world. The geofilter used to work to limit my connection radius but it seems that now it isn’t even doing that. I have tried to change my location and find a match (Uk, Spain, India, South Africa) seems that it still connects me to my usual server in Los Angles. Hoping someone has some insight on settings I may be missing. Thanks
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted June 30, 2021 Administrators Posted June 30, 2021 Hey, welcome to the forum! You should be able to do this without the VPN. Can you provide a screenshot of the Geo-Filter setup to get a different server but where its showing a server in your usual location please?
SkylarDurden Posted June 30, 2021 Author Posted June 30, 2021 This is an image of in match with geofilter chosen before loading the game
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted June 30, 2021 Administrators Posted June 30, 2021 Put Ping Assist to 0 before you boot up the game and it will adhere to the radius only
SkylarDurden Posted June 30, 2021 Author Posted June 30, 2021 Awesome I will give that a try. Will my hybrid VPN allow me to connect to other servers with a lower ping? Is it even a factor in the geofilter?
SkylarDurden Posted June 30, 2021 Author Posted June 30, 2021 For example connecting to a EU server from here in California I don’t want to run like 200 ping.
Bert Posted June 30, 2021 Posted June 30, 2021 It depends on how your VPN works. Most VPN don't actually connect to different country's but spoof the location by a virtual server if you will. In that case your traffic goes into the VPN tunnel, and exits and then connects to the game server. Since the physical location of the server is still in USA for example, you will get low latency to USA servers and the game will still connect to USA servers even though your location is set to Egypt for example.
Bert Posted June 30, 2021 Posted June 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, SkylarDurden said: For example connecting to a EU server from here in California I don’t want to run like 200 ping. That will still happen. If you physically connect from California to EU your ping is skyhigh as you have to cover the physical distance. That's actually also why I despise the recent surge of VPN users. Last night I think I quit 4-5 games in a row because there was some 300ms ping lagmaster in the game skipping all over the place.
SkylarDurden Posted June 30, 2021 Author Posted June 30, 2021 Thanks for the reply Bert. I am using HideMyAss VPN as it was default loaded into the options for hybrid vpn on the DumaOS. They claim to have servers in 100s of countries around the world and boast low ping rates for gamers on global servers. I will have to put it to the test and see what I end up with I guess. I will post some results here if I can get it to work.
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted June 30, 2021 Administrators Posted June 30, 2021 You should be able to do it without the VPN, if you use HMA then you will most likely increase the ping more but give it a try, they may give you better routing and therefore the ping might be slightly lower
SkylarDurden Posted June 30, 2021 Author Posted June 30, 2021 Activated my vpn app on my laptop and now this is the message I see in dumaos.
SkylarDurden Posted June 30, 2021 Author Posted June 30, 2021 Even after I turn vpn off and try to refresh still occurs.
SkylarDurden Posted June 30, 2021 Author Posted June 30, 2021 I cleared the browser cache and was able to fix that issue.
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted June 30, 2021 Administrators Posted June 30, 2021 Glad to hear it, let us know how you get on with forcing servers and whether you notice an increase or decrease in latency using the VPN
SkylarDurden Posted June 30, 2021 Author Posted June 30, 2021 This is what happened when I set the filter, launched the game, then searched a match. Seems I am still on the west coast USA server. Ping is around 50
SkylarDurden Posted June 30, 2021 Author Posted June 30, 2021 Seems that anything over 90 ping, essentially outside the United States, will search indefinitely and have not been able to actually get a match. In some locations a message appears saying I am not connected to a host and to check my connection(message on game). I’m at a loss I guess
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted June 30, 2021 Administrators Posted June 30, 2021 On the above screenshot you're set to Spectating Mode so it's not filtering at all. Try this: Quit the game completely Remove device from the Geo-Filter Flush the cloud Re-add the device to the Geo-Filter Set up the Geo-Filter how you like Wait 2 minutes Boot up the game
SkylarDurden Posted June 30, 2021 Author Posted June 30, 2021 I changed the spectating to filter and still had no results I will try that sequence next
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted June 30, 2021 Administrators Posted June 30, 2021 Yeah you'll need to do that sequence, if those connections have been allowed through spectating mode then the connection is made and filtering mode can't block it so need to block it before the connection is active
SkylarDurden Posted July 1, 2021 Author Posted July 1, 2021 I was finally able to connect to a sever in Brazil and despite the 200+ ping the lag wasn’t half bad. Did take quite a while to find a lobby. I’m going to continue to try other regions and see what results I have. Thanks to all for the help.
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