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Rising Scout

2 years ago

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...

EA_Aljo

Community Manager

2 years ago

@Thunderclap83

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.

Thunderclap83

Rising Scout

2 years ago

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,