EA Staff (Retired)While it appears Development has gotten the wait times back to where they were (i.e. no improvement from 2 months ago), matchmaking is simply not reaping the benefits expected by the players - actually still a step back from the players' perspective.
How long will the experiment go on before pulling the plug? Really, what's the time frame?
As mentioned in the sticky matchmaking post, players would be a lot cooler with not forcing matchmaking at end of round. Seems like a pretty easy fix, if you want to keep tweaking matchmaking logic.
I agree. Matchmaking took me out of a full match of Strike and dropped me into empty lobby of Strike. I just quit. This matchmaking is horrible and completely useless. NO ONE wanted it before and NO ONE wants it now.
@the-creative-pup wrote:I agree. Matchmaking took me out of a full match of Strike and dropped me into empty lobby of Strike. I just quit. This matchmaking is horrible and completely useless. NO ONE wanted it before and NO ONE wants it now.
Many people have wanted matchmaking, as matches are too often one-sided (i.e. all the good people on one team). It's this implementation of matchmaking that people do not want.
@EA_Ataashi- My frustration is coming to the fore!!!
Started playing tonight 8.45pm AEST (Australia ping site). Took about 5mins to get 1st game on Kashyyyk. Lobby about 30 players to start with but full by the end of the match. MM found next game (Deathstar II) with lobby being 21 players and slowly filling. Played both rounds (2nd with 39 players). EOR matchmaking found next game on Endor (Map rotation was going well) but lobby did not have enough players to start match (11 in fact). After waiting a couple of minutes with lobby not filling, players started to quit including me. Searched for a new game. Took a couple of minutes and then ended up on Endor again playing in an already running 2nd match with again 39 player lobby. It was now about 10.15pm AEST when EOR MM searched for next match. Tatooine was found but lobby had only 2 players. Waited, a third player joined but soon left because the lobby was not filling. Waited around another couple of minutes with no change in numbers then quit. Spent the next half hour trying to get into a game using different ping sites. No luck so I quit altogether in frustration.
Matchmaking, I am sure, is frustrating a lot of players other than me so I am suggesting that it be switched off until we can be guaranteed that once we are in a playable lobby, we will stay there until we quit of our own choice. I am sure most players would put up with occasional one sided matches as long as they could play without worrying about being matched out of a well populated lobby. If matchmaking is to continue then take @GOD_IV 's suggestion and use it to scramble teams in existing lobbies not to fill lobbies in other games leaving other players stranded..
@ggibb65 wrote:@EA_Ataashi- My frustration is coming to the fore!!!
If matchmaking is to continue then take @GOD_IV 's suggestion and use it to scramble teams in existing lobbies not to fill lobbies in other games leaving other players stranded..
A good compromise here is not forcing matchmaking. If players want to bolt from a lobby, they can push the Matchmake button.
This way the logic can continue to get tweaked while allowing people happy with their current lobby to stay where they are.
I think I may have to say this every day until it gets implemented. LOL
I can't imagine why anyone would want this horrible match-wrecking nonsense. I would much rather have a server browser so players can actually see where everyone is and join actual matches instead of this current trash. Tonight, a full server of Ewok Hunt got reduced to 3 players because of this garbage.
@DarthFDG wrote:
@the-creative-pup wrote:
I agree. Matchmaking took me out of a full match of Strike and dropped me into empty lobby of Strike. I just quit. This matchmaking is horrible and completely useless. NO ONE wanted it before and NO ONE wants it now.
Many people have wanted matchmaking, as matches are too often one-sided (i.e. all the good people on one team). It's this implementation of matchmaking that people do not want.
Yay rant time. EOR MM still sucks. All the quality suggestions on here about how to help the situation, even temporarily to improve the experience while they get it working are seemingly being ignored. Meanwhile it seems devs bang their heads against this brick wall of an issue they can't seem to make work. Implement a system like SWBF1, I recall that system as being ok from my experience. IMO the suggestion to switch off auto EOR MM and allow players to press for MM is as good as any and surely not too complicated to implement as well as a team scramble. Come on EA, I just want to be able to play the game, I mean at least jazz up the boring loading screens if your going to make me sit in so f**kin many of them.
@Serge_Thire- Hi,
Try manually selecting other ping sites starting with your local one to see if you still get the same error.
Also, what version/build of windows is on your PC?
