EA Staff (Retired)After a few weeks of MM I am still struggling with it. I am based in the UK playing on PC and can get into a GA match quite easily; my issue is the EOR procedure.
When the EOR kicks in I get lifted from a full server and 9/10 times get dropped into a near-empty server that is waiting for players, then I have to hope that the players already there stay long enough for the match to actually start. I now spend a long time look at load outs and menus when really if I had been left in the full server I would be into another match already.
I know a lot of people complained about the lack of MM in the game and it is great that you guys listen and respond to the community, however I think the route you have chosen for MM is not the best; it would be a far better experience to have a simple team scramble at EOR, that way the existing server remains full and the players don't have to wait longer than the standard 1min for a new match to start. At present you are very lucky to have anything less than a 5min wait between matches, may not seem like much but it is very frustrating to just sit and stare at menus, waiting and waiting.
Please take MM out
@EA_Ataashi/ @EA_Atic - I agree with what @GOD_IV wrote with the exception of turning off MM. I think MM is getting there but still needs a few tweaks. My experience last night was somewhat confusing and disappointing. The next paragraph will explain the sequence of events.
Joined a game of GA on Endor (39 players in lobby) played both matches and by the end had full lobby. The matches were very uneven and were over before the AT-AT was captured. MM took us to Kamino after a short wait. Still full lobby, the matches were even going to the final objective with a win for each side. Good, MM had done it's job. THEN!! MM kicked in again and I found myself in a half empty lobby (9 on one side, 12 on the other) back on Kamino and halfway through a match!! When this match finished, I never got to play the 2nd match because the lobby had emptied. I quit and searched for another game. Ended up back on Endor in a game that had already started with just enough players to continue. Again, after that match the lobby emptied and I had to start over again. Found another match on Deathstar II and for the rest of the night everything went normally - nearly full/full lobbies - win one, lose one games.
My questions are - why did MM pull me out of a full lobby, put me in a just enough lobby and in a game that had already started? Is MM preferring groups over single players? I would have thought that once a lobby was full and matches relatively even, a player would stay in that lobby and go through the normal map rotation. It appears the AI (MM) algorithm is taking over the game.👿
I also would like to ask, I have mentioned many times in other threads but have yet to receive an answer - Why can't I get a game in Hero Starfighters, Strike, Blast, Extraction, Ewok Hunt & Starfighter Assault? Have not been able to get a game in any of these since the ping site issue was fixed with the exception of SA - one game a couple of weeks ago. Tried many times, different times of day/night, different ping sites. Just end up in empty lobbies that never fill. Frustrating when trying to complete daily challenges/milestones etc.☹️
Feedback from me...
1. Matchmaking should happen after each match, not after two matches, because if the team is awful, most people will quit between matches and probability of having a good allies to compete with against the enemy team are low.
2. If a match is one-sided, usually in HVV, the best player from the other team will usually be very unskilled. Therefore after matchmaking, teams are still unbalanced. It would be wise to create global ranking, so the matchmaking takes that into account.
Otherwise I had no problems with the matchmaking and I think it is getting better!
@ggibb65 makes a good point I want to back up - the EOR often sends you back into a map you have recently played and often to the same side. I think a MM when you first go into a server is fine, then after that there should be a team scramble function with a regular map rotation. If you want to be really epic you could have a next map vote system, but lets fix one issue at a time 😉
