Is anyone else also having long wait times? Past few weeks were okay, now my friend and I have been waiting sometimes hours before we get into a game, and yes that's with picking the lowest % played weight class mechs too.
Posted Sep 14, 2017, 12:55 PM UTC
Group Queue is fucked by low population at the moment - Especially if you're playing at off-peak times as I am (UTC +12). The population is so low that if your group is the wrong size you won't find games because there's no way to fit the teams together.
Oh well.
We've decided to stop playing MWO at 8pm and try at 10 instead since that seems to work better, managed to get into 3 games last night
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Oh well.
We've decided to stop playing MWO at 8pm and try at 10 instead since that seems to work better, managed to get into 3 games last night
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Group Queue is fucked by low population at the moment - Especially if you're playing at off-peak times as I am (UTC +12). The population is so low that if your group is the wrong size you won't find games because there's no way to fit the teams together.
Oh well.
We've decided to stop playing MWO at 8pm and try at 10 instead since that seems to work better, managed to get into 3 games last night
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Oh well.
We've decided to stop playing MWO at 8pm and try at 10 instead since that seems to work better, managed to get into 3 games last night
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Yes, I saw that. I'm queuing with a friend, though, so this shouldn't affect us, right?
I don't think it specifies there about group. In the past it used an average of the players ratings per team to build a game. If that hasn't changed (and maybe even if it has) you're probably just playing at a really slow time of day. You're group size might be hard to fit in with the currently available players.
The playerbase isn't as big as we'd all like to sustain 24 hour instant matches for us unfortunately.
It says it right in the URL "changes to solo quick play matchmaking"
Aye, I'm just curious since prior to last week, we got into matches with maybe a 5-10 minute wait. Now, we're queuing at the same times and its taking us hours to just get a single game, and for the past 2 nights we've queued for up to 2 hours without finding a match in quickplay.
Only thing that's changed is that I went from a t3 scrub to a t2 scrub.
Well, that might be it then unfortunately. That sucks.
It says it right in the URL "changes to solo quick play matchmaking"
For what it's worth, if you're queuing with a friend, don't worry about that. Make good use of the tonnage you have available to your group. The matchmaker doesn't try to balance by weight in group q, just in solo q.
What time do you try to play? Hour-long waits has not been my experience, but you may be in a low population time-zone. Do you and your friend have all 3 server zones checked?
Yep, have all 3 checked. We play in GMT+8 and GMT+9, at 8pm ish usually.
We've had no issues finding games prior to this, so i'm trying to figure out why its suddenly taking so long compared to earlier :(
Hmm, that's my time-zone too. [edit: it's not, I'm an idiot.]
I haven't noticed significant changes in either solo or group q (2-man) wait times (group q is consistently slower, which makes sense due to the puzzle-pieces of different group sizes).
You say you've just hit T2; what tier is the other member of your group?
He's tier 5, introduced him to this game a couple weeks ago
I also tried making a new account and queued with him, didn't work either. Still took forever
Confirm that your friend has got all 3 regions selected as well, and beyond that I can only suggest dropping support a line. Waiting hours for a QP group Q match in peak NA times is highly unusual. [edit: again, I'm a moron who is shitty at googling time conversions].
AP group Q is dead, solo is going the same way :(
That's scary, I was considering buying some more mech packs, but it's so much less fun not being able to drop together with friends :(
That's scary, I was considering buying some more mech packs, but it's so much less fun not being able to drop together with friends :(
AP group Q is dead, solo is going the same way :(
That's scary, I was considering buying some more mech packs, but it's so much less fun not being able to drop together with friends :(
That's scary, I was considering buying some more mech packs, but it's so much less fun not being able to drop together with friends :(