Since the Halloween event started, I have spent more time in the queue than playing games, over a few modes. Mystery Heroes being the most egregious, I am often waiting 15 minutes in the queue, even going up to 30 min and over. Before the event, it was normally under 2 minutes.
I am playing from South Africa, and I am wondering if it’s placing me in to a different datacenter like the Middle East one. It’s frustrating, and I will likely just stop playing if this is how it’s going to be from now on.
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I have had the same thing happen to me… at the start of the Halloween event everything was fine and just after the first week, my queuing time shot through the roof. (15-30min)
I also noticed that my ping, went from 215 to 165 without any changes in my settings… different server perhaps? Super annoying, it’s these types of things that ruin the game.
PS: Player from SA.
I like that my reply was removed, despite giving the exact answer to this issue.
It sucks and they don’t care, so we have to do it by ourselves
here, this may help https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/a29c92/blocking_servers_by_ip_can_anyone_help_me_with/
I am also from SA and having the same issue. Opened a ticket and get told it is my ISP… and that there are no other reported issues from players from SA.
Same problem here, also in South Africa. The game is becoming unplayable with queue times and it’s not like I’m Diamond, I’m a gold player so there should be no shortage of players. Arcade is no different, super long queue times, upwards of 10 minutes to over 20! Our pleas for an Africa server seems to fall on deaf ears as well and if this is any indication of how things are going to be then I’m sorry to say that I’m not buying Overwatch 2. Surely this is a solvable issue.
Still same as of today, long queue times in South Africa.
After not getting anywhere for awhile, found a post that helped online:
The easiest way to load the firewall controls is the following:
- Use Windows-R to bring up the run box of the operating system.
- Type WF.msc and hit the enter key.
- Once you have opened the firewall controls
- Click on Inbound Rules on the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security window.
- Select New Rule under Inbound Rules on the right.
- Select Custom rule on the next screen and click on next.
- Leave everything as is on the screen that comes up and click next (all programs selected).
- Leave everything as is on the ports and protocols screen and click next.
- Select “These IP addresses” under “Which remote IP addresses does this rule apply to”,click add, and enter the scope by starting with first two numbers then put 0.0 for the last 2.
- Add these ranges:
- From: 157.175.0.0
- To: 157.175.255.255
- Then click OK
- Then add again
- From: 15.185.0.0
- To: 15.185.255.255
- Then add again
- From: 15.184.0.0
- To: 15.184.255.255
What this does is block the Middle Eastern servers so that we no longer connect to them.
Although seems to make a different issue as although the queue time is back to ±2mins the EU servers do not seem to like SA anymore as we have alot of packetloss to them.