Game is choosing the wrong server region

[rodrigods]

I’m from Brazil, and for some reason the game always puts me in either US central or US east as default. When I’m playing with a friend, it correctly chooses the SA servers. My ping is around 50ms- in the SA servers, and 150ms+ in the US servers.

I live in the northeast part of my country, while he lives in the south. Don’t know if that’s relevant.

[LastSoul]

I have the same problem but it seems that no one can help us. I was playing the first few days on the correct server, then the problem started. They should manually place the server selection just like the path of exile has.

[Durn]

Same for me. Please fix this before the launch

[Shunlight]

also happends to me even on launch of MP im getting wrong server region to US Central instead of SA and only way to get there its with friends but cant do it alone and having 170ms+ makes it not fun.

[meioh]

still happening to me on launch as well - can we please just get to choosing servers? not only does the current system not work properly but also makes it a real drag to play with friends.

[rodrigods]

Yeah, guess we are screwed. Not even planned to be fixed

[weissjt]

Sharing my temporary solution from another thread.

Online region issue

So I just fixed the issue using a free vpn with servers in my region (PrivadoVPN has Argentina and Brazil servers). After entering town and confirming that I’m in the correct server, I went back to character selection and disabled the vpn. Entered again, and I’m still in the correct server.

[psychodrive]

Hey mate

Sorry to hear about your issues

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Manual Server Region Selection

Hi When playing in a cross-regional group (e.g. AU + EU + US East), the server region is auto-selected for the party host. This can result in sub-optimal play experience for other people in the group. It is much more noticeable when three regions are involved as 2 players are subjected to longer latency. It would be awesome if the party host could: select a different server region manually based on their own ping; or view server region latencies for each player in the group and manually sel…

[psychodrive]

EHG have stated on Discord they are aware of a bug causing some SA players being connected to NA servers and are looking into it

Source: Discord

[Pandadise]

Happens to me as well, all my friends connect and play in SA server, only me connecting to NA servers. Now on multiplayer launch I have to wait in a queue that I don’t even want or need to be in the first place. Hopefully they find a fix for it soon!

[rodrigods]

Hey, thx for the reply, that’s all I want. I understand its a beta, and as long as its going to be fixed I’m ok with it. Last time I posted on discord the reply I received was that they had no intention of allowing us to manually select the server (or that it was an issue even)

[rodrigods]

This definetly works, tyvm. I’m using the PrivadoVPN and following your steps and it works like a charm. It seens to lock the region after you log in once with a character.
Just to confirm to anyone else reading: open the game with the VPN → Enter the game with your character → back to character screen (don’t close the game) → disable VPN → enter the game again