Match making broken?
how and why in the hell do we end up getting put together in matches with the same hacks, and trash talkers? Seriously, out of the how many thousands of players? And two different versions of 2042? I...
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Xbox one small map version. Even with cross play on, we do tend to struggle with finding enough players to start something. Without that on, yeah there won’t be hardly anyone on period. No way we can over estimate there when the proof is in the pudding; we’re well aware there’s not a lot of players and that’s why we always end up getting stuck with the same seriously questionable players. We even have a couple of Australian friends who play best on their side of the servers but once they get in ours their ping is so high they can do anything. It’s the opposite for me, yeah ping might be high but it’s somehow still manageable. And their fan base is very limited there; they’ve told us countless times and lost interest as a result.
My first reaction was towards this sentence from your opening post: "Seriously, out of the how many thousands of players?" That's where I think you were overestimating. I think the number of players is not that high anymore today. Which leads to only 1 server, if lucky 2, being populated and thus ending up with the same players match after match.
Even if there's thousands of players, these are spread out between several regions, and on top of that 5 different platforms, and then there's crossplay on/off to make a further segregation. Add to that the different featured game modes (I counted 10 this week alone, not even taking non-featured portal modes into account), and it's becoming easy to spread thin thousands of players.
I see the same thing happening here. If I go on CQ64 I mainly encounter the familiar names. The weekly event game modes tend to be more populated with new players, but these are not the type of players that stick with the game for long. Especially if these new players venture out to CQ64 and are being confronted with those high level frequent players.
I didn’t mean thousands as in tens or much less hundreds of thousands. Like the experiences we’ve seen and noticed sure makes it seem like there’s at most 5k-10k players; and 10k is pushing it. But we mainly see, deal and get stuck with said players in regular conquest matches.
