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lookcr
Seasoned Ace
5 months ago

Crossplay and Matchmaking discussion ... (Has a problem?)

Hello Everyone!

Since the launch i've done some tests in my ps5, and after reading posts here, reddit, and comments in youtube, i 've noticed that many people are concerned about how crossplay actually works. 

After the ign interview from Matthew Nickerson, EA share some notes saying "The crossplay on will prioritize the same plataform for compossing the matchs" but here in game this apparrently dosen't work correctly,

I made today 7 matchs with crossplay on in a row, Conquest and Breakthrough on ps5, and this is my notes and results:

1º Match  = 23x24 Players / 16x11 from Pc

2º Match = 31x32 P.  / 25x18 Pc

3º Match = 26x28 P.  / 16x17 Pc

4ª Match = 24x24 P.  / 11x8 Pc

5º Match = 27x37 P. / 18x15 Pc

6º Match = 27x27 P. / 23x20 Pc

7º Match = 28x29 P. / 20x22 Pc

I know, its normal to have mixed players, but 80/70% from one plataform? I have friends going trough the same problem, and others from Xbox.

When we turn off the crossplay, the matchs don't fill and remain with only a couple of 5/7 players fighting bots, in ps5 and xbox too, i read a lot of coments about this issue. 

It's impossible to say "The game dosen't sell enough on consoles" if you have the same problem tell here, but in my opinion the game has a matchmaking issue, matchs with this unbalanced players count is boring, in almost all 10 first players are from pc, it's a unfair dispute between Mk and joystick.

Before anyone says it's a skill issue, no it's just reality. We have a fewer resources to compete: Higher fps, faster aiming, control ... Many people are even asking for console-only crossplay. And that's not even what i'm arguing, the fact is, i believe there's some kind og problem with matchmaking. By logically, there should only be a few players from others platform's, according to what was explained

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  • Preferred Crossplay isn't working at all.

    And if you turn off Crossplay, you only find matches full of bots. I ran a quick test in Conquest mode. I searched for 10 matches in a row. The result: 10 different servers, all with few players and full of bots.

    Why didn't the matchmaking system put all these players on the same server?

     

  • lookcr's avatar
    lookcr
    Seasoned Ace
    5 months ago

    Yes, made more matches today and the same situition. 

    80% off lobby is on pc. All matches with crossplay off fills only 5/6 players

     

  • I hope this is a problem with a fix coming soon, with my 6 friends we tried on ps5 going everyone at the same time queueing alone with crossplay off and everybody got a full sv with bots and 3 players each side

  • lookcr's avatar
    lookcr
    Seasoned Ace
    5 months ago

    Yes, i have friends from Xbox and they are going trough the same problem. I think it's really a problem with the way matchmaking works and separate the players. Yesterday i had some matches full of bots with crossplay on, showing a real problem with how it works.

     

  • AJ_Clickz's avatar
    AJ_Clickz
    Seasoned Hotshot
    5 months ago

    Preferred crossplay seems absolutely borked at the moment, but it was the exact same situation when they “introduced” it in 2042.

    Im hoping we get a statement soon regarding it, if not someone should file a lawsuit for false advertising or something 🤣

  • lookcr's avatar
    lookcr
    Seasoned Ace
    5 months ago

    Yes, and this is not about mk vs joystick, its unbalanced. 

    I made today one match and there were only 8console players out of 57 total, thats 14% from console, 75% pc

    3 matchs on ps5 today:

    24x24 Players / 13x18 Pc = 35% Console

    28x29 P / 23x26 Pc = 14% Console

    32x32 P.  / 25x24 Pc = 25% Console

    All turn arround in less than half of consoles

  • EA/DICE has made a total mess of this.

    There are thousands of players on every platform and they can't matchmake a server unless cross play is enabled?

    Garbage.

    There is something going on and it smells bad.

    EA/DICE need to be dragged over the coals in social media until they answer.

    And why are they refusing to give PC players cross play options? Why are they utterly silent about the issue?

    I firmly believe there are fundamental problems with cross play infrastructure and it is causing most of the issues with 'netcode' in the game.

    I happen to know some folks who played on PC with cross play off tonight and all told me that the game was much better. _No_ gunfights with stupid wtf moments like putting 10 bullets into someone and have them turn and kill you in 10ms.

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