Hey guys, was still wondering. Saw the new mechs and stuff going on and was wondering if they ever fixed the group queue, or if the game is still solo drop only.
Have a couple friends I wanted to play this game with but we never found games despite queueing for hours.
Posted Jan 25, 2018, 7:00 AM UTC
AP - Yes
the long wait times are not because MM in group queue is broken, it's just that there's too few players remaining, so if you try to group up outside NA or EU prime time , you'll have a hard time finding matches. I'm in EU timezone and have no problem playing in a group around 10-12AM PST (6-8PM GMT). But if I try grouping up 2-3 hours before that, then yup, the queue times are taking forever.
Group queue does get me games. Lots of asymmetrical games, lots of troll drops, but it does get us into games. We do drop in NA prime, though.
Gotta love it when this thread gets down voted by the PIG sycophants just for asking a question. Thanks guys.
Last I checked, it worked fine.
Plenty of streamers been succesfully Group queueing as well.
Well, going to reinstall the game tonight and try again. 2 months ago I queued with a friend for 2 hours for 3 nights, and we never got a single game to pop. Queuing solo dropped me into a game in less than a minute every time.
Hmmm... wait times in faction play i could see being that long, but group queue?
As always, the larger the group and if you can field numbers that can be easily filled ( 6, 8, and 10 mans) or a 12 man, you will find matches quicker.
I don't play faction, only quickplay.
I usually queued with a friend, so 2 of us.
Earlier last year it was fine, and we'd find drops in a few minutes. Last last year, we suddenly couldn't find any games at all queuing together. Only solo drops worked.
Longest time we spent in queue was 2 hours and 33 minutes before we gave up and just went to do other stuff.
I have noticed the queue system screws up sometimes - if you're waiting for over 2 minutes, you should just cancel and re-queue, then it works as expected. If you're waiting for over 20 minutes, very clearly something went wrong and you're not going to be getting in a match, tbh.
Then again, this is from relatively limited experience, i mostly play solo myself.