A VPN only places you in a different region from an IP perspective. Why would that make the game easier? I see comments left and right about using a VPN and “that’s kind of cheating”. Why? Unless you can set up the VPN to accept players from a kindergarten only or set the location to Antarctica, I don’t see how you can bypass excellent regional players worldwide. A VPN would actually hurt your ping and put you at a disadvantage. What am I missing?
There’s one specific vpn designed for warzone that isn’t really a normal vpn. It routes part of your data through the location you select, which usually doesn’t have enough people to fill a lobby quickly. If you’re waiting too long to get in a lobby the game will forget about sbmm and try to put you in any lobby with low ping. At that point the game then recognizes the data that wasn’t routed to your selected location and goes off of your actual location and gets you a lobby without using your stats for sbmm so the lobby has a chance to be a lower tier lobby but could still be a high tier lobby, it just depends on the first lobby that the game finds
certain regions just have less players & aren’t able to put as many of the best players together in one game together because of it. So you end up with a wider distribution of KDs in a lobby, meaning the lobby average is generally lower & easier. If you can find one of these places that doesn’t sacrifice too much ping it’s a big advantage over playing on EU or NA servers especially.
The way NoLag and SBMMOFF work is by routing the MM data that goes to DemonWare servers through countries with no SBMM.
Your normal game traffic bypasses the VPN and you still play in your local game server, while making the game think you don’t have SBMM.
Also possible with Wireguard or OVPN, if you know how to route only specific ports through the VPN.
You are absolutely correct about the man in the middle attack. I have written code on the OSI layer for a few years. That is why I emphasized the normal VPN providers. Curious now as to what the “man in the middle” could modify.
I don’t know about the downvotes. Maybe it was by mistake or maybe some hackers got worried that we are exposing their methods.
Most of the really good players come from the US and Eaurope so if you’re connecting to players in some 3rd world country I doubt they would be that good at the game
I think VPN can manipulate the data between the client and the server, other than changing location.
how do we vpn if using ps4?
If you are on PC you can search for sbmmoff vpn and if you are on console you should search for gamevpns console vpn. They both work the same in that they only route the match making portion of the warzone traffic over their vpn tunnel. This confuses the game into thinking that you are from a far away geo location and probably have a high ping ( which you infact do not ) this in turn forces the game into putting you into a lobby as quick as possible and into a more connection based lobby rather than purely skill based match making lobby. This results in more easier lobbies overall but of course you can still get some high kd lobbies also but all in all you will get more bot lobbies in warzone all whilst keeping a super low ping with zero packetloss.
Interesting. Now that makes sense. Thank you for that thorough explanation.
This. Avg kd is .9 so thats why majority of lobbies with vpn will be around that kd strength. I dont know the exact number but probably something like 90% of all the lobbies fall between 0.8 and 1kd. Your chance of an extreme bot lobby is roughly the same as the extreme sweat 1.5 + avg kd lobby under vpn.
Highest ive seen was a rebirth avg kd of 1.94 kd.
Hey, would you mind letting me know what VPN you’re referring to?
You can also use it to ensure you get matched to your closest server every time and don’t get screwed by SBMM
This is similar to why “streamers” in general with 4+KDs get overall lower KD lobbies too (even without VPN). SBMM autofills the lobby creating a wider KD distribution and lower as you said
For any VPN client that can use OpenVPN you just need to do a no-pull of the SBMM traffic from this IP range 185.34.106.0 255.255.255.0
If you only VPN that IP to some distant land then it “should” lower your lobby KD. My experience with this has been mixed. Sometimes I can get really low lobbies (usually playing solos or random fills) but will get the occasional 1+ kd.
It makes sense for that to happen on certain things such as sports where they cannot invest in equipment and trainers, but the game is the same for all. A PS or Xbox is the same everywhere. It could be true though since they would have a much smaller player base. Not everyone can afford game consoles. You are probably right.
Since there’s a minority of good players in every population, the smaller that population is, and the less chances to find good players.
It has nothing to do with skills. If you knew football (not egghand), you’d see that talented players come from various regions of the world, including the poorest ones. Zidane couldn’t even afford a pair of shoes as a kid, and he was raised in France.
Your ignorance is entertaining tho
It does not. Game data is encrypted.
VPNs for Warzone use split tunneling/routing, only matchmaking server is connected via VPN. Connections to game(match) server is direct without VPN.
Not really. It encrypts the data but doesn’t modify it. Technically it could change the data, but my assumption is that people are talking about normal VPN providers like ExpressVPN or NordVPN and not my “own server VPN”.
Edit: A post from iHeapyy in this thread actually supports this theory. I stand corrected.
Get a router that supports VPN. For example https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01JOXW3YE/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=gs2&linkId=3b8f9acfb29154532149974ace934b4e&creativeASIN=B01JOXW3YE&tag=expressvpn09a-20&creative=9325&camp=1789
Or have a PC act as a gateway or a Windows Pc as a hotspot https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-your-windows-pc-as-a-mobile-hotspot-c89b0fad-72d5-41e8-f7ea-406ad9036b85
I would choose the router option if faced with the choice.
If you are asking this question, no offence, but it tells me that you may not be very proficient with computers. Pick a router that had been already setup for VPN and ready to use. Latency will be a problem though.