South Africa and Region Override

[Just_Ivy]

Several South African players have complained before that a few updates ago, matches seemed to have dried up.
This results in queue times over 15 minutes to just get put on Europe's servers anyways.

The region override command seems to do nothing as it still takes upwards of 15 minutes to find a match even when supposedly connected to Europe.
So, is the command actually doing anything?
Is South Africa a part of Europe's pool of servers?

There seems to be very little response on the forums themselves and other places like social media concerning this.
It feels like a waste to try play, give up and close the game once every few days/weeks and hope that the next patch brings news about the state of matchmaking.

Is there going to be a way to actually search on Europe directly or is waiting going to be the only solution?
Any clarification on this or even vague plans for the future would indicate if sticking with Deadlock is going to be worth it.

 

[Harry Banarry]

New player here, just over 50 hours. Out of my 66 matches, 6 of them were maybe SA servers. Had to wait 10-12 minutes for 60 of them. Region override command also does nothing for me. I DMed Yoshi, made a post but nothing. A 2024 Discord chat shows that @Yoshi supposedly made it that SA based players wait 10 minutes before server-region search moves to the closest (160ms or 180ms which is EU, not sure where 160 is).

No changes sadly, still. Despite asking. They must have their hands full with other work.

 

[Patty a lil baddy]

have you tried cs2 server picker? a british streamer named zerggyyyy uses it to play on na servers

 

[Harry Banarry]

Good shout. Temporary solution if it works. I'll give it a go.

 

[Harry Banarry]

Can confirm.

Hey all, just want to report a temporary work around. Download CS2 Server Picker from Github and only block the South African server (when less SA players are active). This way, the game skips SA server search and quickly finds the closest server and available game. No more 10-14min searches.