EA_Aljo
Community Manager
Community ManagerPatch 1.1.0 Feedback Thread
Hey, NHL Community. Please use this thread for feedback for the 1.1.0 patch that is going live tomorrow, 10/6.
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A big help with the drop in matchmaking wait times would be to reduce the 'looking for teammates' time, at least when there are 2 or more players on the team in 3on3. No one (with 2+ brain-cells) wants a random Goalie on their team, especially in 3on3 and yet, even after getting a C, W and D, gotta wait for 3 extra/pointless minutes every single search for a goalie that a) damn near never turns up (in EU) and b) absolutely no one, wants. As it is, we're basically wasting 30-90 minutes just waiting for absolutely no reason whatsoever, every night. It's frankly a terribly flawed system and everyone's sick of it.
The good part of the previous games is that the matchmaking was limited to 2 minutes once in the lobby whether or not it was full. Now it feel like it's unlimited and will only goes for the near perfect match up.
Us, the players had the power to start it by all getting ready up or not if it was reasonably filled or in the worse scenario poeples were leaving the matchmaking at the 2 minutes mark to start a new room (In the huge majority of time though the game was starting just fine).
It was also good to see the opposing side players joining in or not. Too many times I've seen broken room were empty position wouldnt fill up no matter what, it was easy to tell when it was best to simply back out and re-launch for a new room.....now, well, it's impossible to tell, we are left ''looking for opponent'' with absolutly no clues as if everything work as intended or not.
They also took away the possibility to switch build during the ''search for opponent'' which doesnt make much sense at all, players that choose ''skater'' only have the power to switch build (if needed) in the last 25 sec. Why, just why?
Wait times have consistently gotten longer with less people playing.
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