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This guide for for NA players who are sick of 300 ping games on their region. If you are below masters you can just set a preferred server and you are all set, but for masters+ players your server preference doesn't do anything.
Here is the way to "veto" the troublesome servers so you can have a reliable ladder practice environment.
This trick has been in use for over a year by more than a dozen players with zero issues.
How to setup the great emu wall:
1. Open 'Windows Defender Firewall'.
2. Click on 'Advanced Settings'.
3. Right-click 'Outbound Rules' -> Create new rule.
For the rule you have just created:
-Set the rule type to custom.
-Set the program path to your sc2 executable (try setting it to C:\Program Files (x86)\StarCraft II\Versions\<Latest Base Version>\ ).
-Set Protocol type to Any
-Under scope, add the following REMOTE IP addresses:
103.4.0.0 to 103.4.255.255,
52.67.0.0 to 52.67.255.255,
13.0.0.0 to 13.255.255.255 and 52.180.0.0 to 52.255.255.255
-Set 'Action' to 'Block the connection'.
4. Under 'Inbound Rules', delete all of the SC2 entries (this may not be necessary).
5. Start SC2, but do not click "Allow this program through windows firewall". If you accidentally allow it through,
go back to the previous step and delete the entries again.
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WOW this actually works. Thanks!
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There is a way to do this with Brazil server?
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Wow, does it mean you can actually control who are you matched with on ladder by blocking certain IP ranges?
How does it affect the WCS Challenger ladder competition? For example, if somebody blocks Finnish IPs does it mean they cannot be matched with Serral on ladder (if he's playing from home of course)?
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On May 24 2019 03:28 Majick wrote:
Wow, does it mean you can actually control who are you matched with on ladder by blocking certain IP ranges?
How does it affect the WCS Challenger ladder competition? For example, if somebody blocks Finnish IPs does it mean they cannot be matched with Serral on ladder (if he's playing from home of course)?
EU only has one server, one IP range for gamesites.
Americas has 6 servers. This just limits the servers you can get put on.
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On May 24 2019 03:44 Nathanias wrote:Show nested quote +On May 24 2019 03:28 Majick wrote:
Wow, does it mean you can actually control who are you matched with on ladder by blocking certain IP ranges?
How does it affect the WCS Challenger ladder competition? For example, if somebody blocks Finnish IPs does it mean they cannot be matched with Serral on ladder (if he's playing from home of course)? EU only has one server, one IP range for gamesites. Americas has 6 servers. This just limits the servers you can get put on.
Ah now I get it, thanks for explaining!
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On May 24 2019 03:45 Majick wrote:Show nested quote +On May 24 2019 03:44 Nathanias wrote:On May 24 2019 03:28 Majick wrote:
Wow, does it mean you can actually control who are you matched with on ladder by blocking certain IP ranges?
How does it affect the WCS Challenger ladder competition? For example, if somebody blocks Finnish IPs does it mean they cannot be matched with Serral on ladder (if he's playing from home of course)? EU only has one server, one IP range for gamesites. Americas has 6 servers. This just limits the servers you can get put on. Ah now I get it, thanks for explaining!
On NA this can definitely still be (ab)used to avoid some opponents to get to the top of ladder to qualify for challenger (just like what Hydra and Polt used to do).
Does anyone know what happens if two players are matched up and they're blocking mutually exclusive sets of servers (e.g player who only wants to play on Australia or Singapore vs player who only wants to play on US East and Central)?
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This is the great creator of woos_bot. All hail the magical woopr
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On May 24 2019 03:44 Nathanias wrote:Show nested quote +On May 24 2019 03:28 Majick wrote:
Wow, does it mean you can actually control who are you matched with on ladder by blocking certain IP ranges?
How does it affect the WCS Challenger ladder competition? For example, if somebody blocks Finnish IPs does it mean they cannot be matched with Serral on ladder (if he's playing from home of course)? EU only has one server, one IP range for gamesites. Americas has 6 servers. This just limits the servers you can get put on.
That's really silly. I had no idea it was that bad over in america since we only have 1 EU server. Australia!?
The worst that we have is being regularly being matched with russians that have poor connectivity to paris and don't speak a word of english in co-op game modes/maps so we have to either not communicate or just insta-leave.
That's an issue in WoW as well in the last few years, i guess Blizzard wants to serve that region without it being viable enough to run a dedicated server and as a result we have people with bad connections and no mutual language being dumped together without an opt-out.
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On May 24 2019 04:08 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
Does anyone know what happens if two players are matched up and they're blocking mutually exclusive sets of servers (e.g player who only wants to play on Australia or Singapore vs player who only wants to play on US East and Central)?
you match up but the game cancels during the "3..2..1.." since there's no server you guys can play on
you don't lose points and it won't show in match history
then you just re-queue 
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On May 24 2019 04:28 Cyro wrote:Show nested quote +On May 24 2019 03:44 Nathanias wrote:On May 24 2019 03:28 Majick wrote:
Wow, does it mean you can actually control who are you matched with on ladder by blocking certain IP ranges?
How does it affect the WCS Challenger ladder competition? For example, if somebody blocks Finnish IPs does it mean they cannot be matched with Serral on ladder (if he's playing from home of course)? EU only has one server, one IP range for gamesites. Americas has 6 servers. This just limits the servers you can get put on. That's really silly. I had no idea it was that bad over in america since we only have 1 EU server. Australia!?The worst that we have is being regularly being matched with russians that have poor connectivity to paris and don't speak a word of english in co-op game modes/maps so we have to either not communicate or just insta-leave. That's an issue in WoW as well in the last few years, i guess Blizzard wants to serve that region without it being viable enough to run a dedicated server and as a result we have people with bad connections and no mutual language being dumped together without an opt-out. The funny thing is, at least for me, Australia is the least bad of all the overseas servers I've been matched with playing on NA. It's consistently around 200 ping or so for me. Singapore is over 300 ping most of the time, and Brazil is all over the place. Singapore and Brazil are often so bad that I just leave the game immediately, though I often leave games on Australia too. Playing in over 150ms latency is straight up not fun for me. Good luck defending mine drops against someone who has server advantage in 200+ ping. I had a game on Singapore where the person mine dropped while it lag spiked for a couple seconds or so, and when the game caught back up after the spike, an entire mineral line of probes was gone and the medivac was flying away. I had no chance to respond.
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If Blizzard patches this I'm rioting
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What happens if you join a custom game on one of the servers you have blacklisted?
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On May 24 2019 06:19 JonSnowSC2 wrote:
If Blizzard patches this I'm rioting
If Blizzard patches this it'll be ignorant for not allowing an option to block these regions by default.
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its kinda sad for the ppl in these regions that want to play with low ping once in a while, instead of only US servers, but fuck the minority right? xD
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On May 24 2019 08:46 IshinShishi wrote:
its kinda sad for the ppl in these regions that want to play with low ping once in a while, instead of only US servers, but fuck the minority right? xD
They should be able to select the servers that they do or do not want to play on in a menu at any time, as should everybody else.
If there's a population shift and fewer games are available on undesirable servers that sucks for them, but it doesn't suck as much as forcing a whole region to roll the dice on if they have 10 ping or 200 ping or if they will be able to speak a common language with the ally that they matched with. They own the game too and did their due diligence setting up a PC and network that works well in order to get a good experience.
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For some reason, i'm unable to use streamlabs/obs with this rule. I have to disable if I want to stream
Any thoughts?
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I mean, at this point, we could just have US based servers and delete AUS/Brazil/Singapore, this is coming from someone in southern latam. I remember it being the worst thing in the world when I got someone in the australian server and had 500 ping.
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