Customized Ping Ranges for Matchmaking
Is it possible to have a better matchmaking system to solve the ping disparity in HUT? Could we not search within bands such as 1 to 15ms, 16 to 30ms and and 30+ ms? Or even +/- 10 ms or 5ms? I w...
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There are lot of people complaining about the lack of a proper ping based search feature in HUT. Is this not the proper venue for me to ask this question?
On reddit there are dozens of posts on this. Can the team at EA comment on why we can't match with people closer to our ping for the sake of fair play and competition?
Thank you,
EA_AljoCommunity Manager
It's fine to ask that here. No worries. The best location option was removed while we investigate the long wait times for drop-ins people have been experiencing. So, that's contributing to the ping issues currently. As far as setting a custom ping goes, I don't have any details on that. I know it would be great for getting matches with a better ping, but at the same, it's going to mean a far smaller pool for matchmaking which will introduce longer wait times. We'll just have to wait and see what happens in the future.
- @EA_Aljo I'm pretty sure anyone that doesn't live in QC would more than happily wait 3+ minutes for a match than play against server disadvantage. The nature of this game relies so heavily on ping that it's near impossible to beat worse players with faster connection. I understand P2P has issues so a "within 5 ping" option is a fantastic idea.
- @mobyjoness Thanks for that feedback I agree. My idea of a +/- 5ms ping search is something that anyone over 25ms ping would happily use. Those with good ping could continue doing quick searches and those with bad ping could wait as long as they want to find someone with similar ping. I hope this happens someday.
Thanks for the response. I think for EASHL and World of Chel it could stay as is. 12 people around the same ping is impossible.
My question and everyone's irritation is in HUT. For HUT it would be an incredibly easy implementation to allow the option to wait longer in your 1 v 1 search for say +/- 5 or 10 ms.
Impatient people could just open it up to any ping and play almost immediately as is the case now. With any ping and 250 skill point difference the average search is only seconds.
With thousands of HUT users I think the option of +/- 5 or 10 pingwould work well, even if it meant waiting an extra 2 or 3 minutes for a search. Or even divide the player base between 0 to 20ms and 21+ ms.
It would be great if the developers could take a look at this topic on Reddit to understand the level of frustration people experience playing 30 to 40 ms ping versus 2 to 10ms ping. It is the biggest issue the game has right now.
Thanks a bunch,
Just wondering if this idea was put forward to the team? The +/-5ms ping search would be for HUT only and should be optional. So it wouldn't delay people with good ping from having a game. Those with bad ping could queue in longer searches for someone with 5 to 10ms of their ping.
A lot of people in the community are not going to continue playing HUT until the unfair ping advantage is fixed.
Some feedback from the team at EA would be great.
- EA_Aljo
@Thunderclap83 wrote:
Just wondering if this idea was put forward to the team? The +/-5ms ping search would be for HUT only and should be optional. So it wouldn't delay people with good ping from having a game. Those with bad ping could queue in longer searches for someone with 5 to 10ms of their ping.
A lot of people in the community are not going to continue playing HUT until the unfair ping advantage is fixed.
Some feedback from the team at EA would be great.
I'll make sure this feedback gets passed on.
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