EOR Matchmaking Test, Strike and Blast

G'day.

Nice to finally find out what was going on this weekend with the game's matchmaking. It has been driving me into a fury with the damn game.

A little more of a warning would be great instead of having to find this forum about it. PLEASE tell me it won't be dropping out for new matchmaking after

every game once this data collection is over, it's making it almost unplayable. 5-10 minutes hunting through different servers to find a game only to have to do it all over again when that single match is finished. It's frustrating enough being a fairly new player (about a couple of month) and getting bloody swatted by overpowered heroes every 30 seconds while I struggle to get troopers to any sort of useful lever.

Just don't screw around too much with what seems to work well and people enjoy ok?

Thanks

Sean Murphy

I hope you appreciate the feedback?

Playing Extraction today and matchmaking is in place. Perhaps I missed it but I don't see it in the list. Whatever the original EA concept was, the practical experience I have is that it SLOWS the gameplay down.

When I eventually get into my first game and it concludes    the next step appears to a waiting one for another round as I wait for another 8 or 9 players to materialise.

Also … Getting in to the first game of Strike or Extraction when Matchplay is active can be a painfully long experience. Is this just coincidence or a mistake on my part?

Questions.

Does EA log the average time taken to get into the first game? Does EA log the number of times a player abandons a game waiting for the minimum no. of players? Is the no. of abandoned games increasing during Matchplay? ( I must admit to personally abandoning a lot of games recently... a bad shortcoming … lacking in patience!). This data might be useful info to share?

Whenever it takes me to a lobby that's waiting for players they have always tended to fill fairly quickly however games of GA are still unbalanced with great regularity. Also experienced a lot of games where you get one player significantly ahead of anyone else on the entire scoreboard but the rest of their team is non existent by comparison. Happened to me about 5 games running that I finished in 1st by some significant margin yet the rest of my team were so far behind we lost every game. Then I've been on the other end of this where the opposition had a player miles ahead of anyone else on the scoreboard but the rest of their team was pure cannon fodder and we just steam rolled them. It sometimes seems like the game expects people to be a one man army the way its balancing out the teams. I should also add in terms of the frequency of harder fought battles it has improved slightly you get less unbalanced games than before but its still a lot. 

It's been unplayable since the last update. I'm always stuck on the loading screen for 10-20min and usually I end up quiting the game since you can't manoeuvre or gcancell once the loading screen is on. Horrible. Even in between matches it takes too long.

Honestly, I prefer how the game was before, maybe it was a bit unbalanced at the time, but you could always quit the session if it was too much. At least you could play. 

@EA_Ataashi- Please turn off Matchmaking until it can be tweaked a bit more to get it right. I just finished playing Jakkuu on GA for 4 rounds in a row. The games were not balanced with matches still tending to be one sided. I agree with others that it is slowing the gameplay down having to wait for the matchmaking to do it's thing before finding another map. Goes from full lobbies to half full lobbies then slowly fills them. Map rotation is out the window. The same thing happened yesterday on HvsV. One of my daily challenges was to defeat 10 dark side heroes but through matchmaking I was always allocated to the dark side. Had to play 3 games (2 of them on the same map) before I could start the challenge. 

matchmaking before starting the game ? is not better ? 

You can split for cards.....

Put  gray & green for  1 way 
       blue  & Pink for other way 

I hope this can help. 

@EA_Ataashi- Just a little more feedback on matchmaking.

My previous post gives most of my concerns but I want to give an example and the flow of last night's games.

To start, I joined a game on Yavin 4 one round light side. The game was unevenly matched with the Dark side winning in a few minutes. Then matchmaking came into effect. Waited for it to find a map ( took a while) then the following sequence started (Note: all maps were 2 rounds - L & D - and were pretty well evenly matched)

Deathstar II - Endor (going well at the moment!!) - Yavin 4 - Endor - Yavin 4 - Endor - Yavin 4 (quit and went to bed). 

This is the major problem that I have with the matchmaking (plus the lost game time waiting). If matchmaking is to be continued then please get the developers to fix the map rotation/speed. I understand it may not be a simple task and if it takes time then switch it off until it can be fixed. I can put up with occasional uneven matches if I know I am not going to be stuck on the same 2 maps for the night.

Whilst I am here, I would like to ask other players for advice (I am not the most skilful player) - How can one find a target and kill with one shot (not Vanguard) whilst running at full speed. It amazes me at the skill of some players!!!

Star Wars Battlefront II EOR Matchmaking Test update.

We are seeing games are fuller, which is something we aimed to achieve. We have plans for tweaks with the goal of reducing the time to Matchmake.

We've got some back-end changes going live this morning in Star Wars Battlefront II which should improve the EOR MM experience. There will be no downtime required for this

We're making some changes to the map rotation in Star Wars Battlefront II and will be reverting back to the full rotation now that some of our tests have concluded. This change are now live

Battlefront II is the only online game where I spend more time waiting, than actually playing the game. In hero star fighters it takes ages to find a full lobby. And after each round the hassle starts again. The game has been out for over a year. How come this can't be fixed?

idk you talk about ...

Everytime when map change, the server let me out. 

Say "Matchmaking"  I appear on another map, alone.
EA  knows how difficult it is find a Match ? including avoiding the hacker Yoran107