Returning from a small break, I was assigned an EU sever game despite being in Australia

[huganardo]

I don't think that it is intended for me, in Sydney to be placed in EU games.

Here is the match ID 29004587. I haven't played since before the last patch. I would double check to see if the settings aren't being reset because of some weird behavior with the steam temp folder. Alternatively it might be that my Ethernet cable was faulty and finding 300+ ping on all servers, perhaps region lock to the most common server for that account or give some indication on which server you might be searching for when match making.

The client server (below) DOES NOT match the game server.


This is not the first time I have encountered this bug, but last time it was in Asia and hence playable. I think that might have also been after a patch, Each time after this happens I run citadel_region_override 5 in the console and it doesn't happen in the following games.

I have modified 570 files in Dota in the past, so it might be the case that me tampering with temp files has caused this.

best of luck


Side note My account got an abandon on it for this game. I'd appreciate you guys removing it from my account, I know how it will affect the behavior score of this account and I don't want to suffer punitive measures because of a bug.

 

[ima89]

I keep getting thrown into EU server matches and the experience is horrible. I live in NA and set region to NA but the region over ride does not do anything as far as I can tell.

 

[huganardo]

Hi guys, update

It happened again for me at 2:27 AEST, it placed me in South American game.

I abandoned again cause I cannot contribute positively with more than 300 ping. I got a ban for leaving this game. I don't think that is very reasonable

Earlier this week I was placed in North America for a game. I didn't leave it because 150 ping is twice as playable.

I will try to run with the launch option citadel_region_override 5. Running this in the console after opening the game seems to be the only way I can prevent this from happening.

Clearly automatic region assignment method you guys are using has some broken edge cases. I can fix them if you don't want to, this is an annoying problem to have constantly. Assign me an issue: https://github.com/hugsclane

I have spoken to many people in my games and it seems like a common problem.

 

[huganardo]

New update, after queing for a game after my ban, I was placed in beunos server again.

Citadel_region_override DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE.

This is now a completely game breaking bug.