Who is this 10th man...
... always aborting the matches? Please stop! Don't queue if you are not ready, Mysterious 10th Man!
Posted Feb 3, 2016, 3:55 AM UTC
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Yeah I want to take this to a LAN to get my friends to play but the matchmaker is a dealbreaker.
Shitty servers, imbalanced teams, steepened grind, all of these things are explained away with "it's in beta." Absolutely no one wants to spend 20 minutes waiting for a goddamn game.
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there is a ''competitive'' version of the game that you can activate by inputting a code at the beta's tab of the properties menu. This will disable the matchmaker for that version of the game, allowing you to enter servers on your own accord
I dont remember what the code was, but I think u/ECG-Protagonist or u/ecg_KillerPidgeon will know
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While this is cool, I don't think it's a good solution for a venue of drunk, high or otherwise indisposed gamers.
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Not even in beta, pre-release alpha
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It's on Steam, in Early Access. That's pretty much the standard "release" for indie games these days and a LOT of them don't ever make it out that phase because of poor reception during it. I personally love the game enough to stick it out and give the devs a chance to fix it, but others, including most of my friends at the LAN, won't.
Would it really have killed them to try this in closed alpha first? I get that the 200 people online two weeks ago wouldn't be a great data set, but from what I can tell these initial errors are a result of a straight-up bad algorithm.
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Trust me I feel ya, it fills my need for spaceship battles and I liked it so much I bought up the vanguard pack to support an. Hopefully these problems don't turn away too many people and it does in the water
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I've had the game installed for several months now and any time I get around to finally queuing I sit for 15 minutes waiting for 2-3 players. Eventually I get bored and alt+f4 and do something else. I have yet to actually play the game.
Since the free weekend there are a lot more players so you can probably get into a game. The problem now isn't lack of players but matchmaking that still has some issues and will repeatedly fail to create a game before finally succeeding. Give it another try and just be patient, I've been consistently getting into full 10 player games in 5-10 minutes.
Ah man! It is such a blast to play! your patience, I'm sure, will be fully rewarded! Or wait until you stop seeing posts like these!
Do you have TeamViewer (or another VNC), Skype, or Overwolf in the background? I find that those 3 prevent me from playing sometimes.