i'm also facing similar issues... when me and mate join fleet battle (he's on a pc and i'm on ps4), it almost impossible to get more than 2 ranked fleet battle games within an hour!!! i'm in Malaysia btw.. and our play times are usually from 10pm onwards till 1am..
This is not an Asia-only problem, this is a worldwide problem.
Playing from North America set on crossplay on Friday/Saturday, I was managing to find matches only about 20% of the time over about 5-6 hours when I looked for "Fleet Battles Against AI". (I was reading in between the long stretches of "looking tor match" timeouts.) The first few matches I tried looking for New Republic missions, then I just set it at Random. Timeout after timeout.
The first "hit" on a match was after 7 timeouts (ie 70+ minutes of waiting) and it was for a match in . . . Yavin. Little did I know that actually playing a full match would be the exception and not the rule - about half of the matches I *did* find were already about 1/3 to 2/3 finished when I arrived, so I was only getting a few minutes of playtime.
I tried using "Quick Match" twice to make sure there was not a connection issue. Each time was one of the very few moments in that 5-6 hours when I played a full match. Unfortunately, both were Dogfights, which I hate - and to add insult to injury, one was of course in Yavin, the other was in Esseles.
My conclusion is that Squadrons needs a lot of work to be an effective multiplayer game. Nobody should have to wait hours to play for minutes.
Fleet Battles vs AI seems to have a particularly low population (unfortunately, as it a great mode). Fleet Battles and Quick Match are the two most populated modes - if you are having trouble finding a game, try one of those.
good luck finding any game on PS4 with cross-play turned off 🙂
I logged on today after 5 weeks of having no games, and thinking of every expletive under the sun to call the developers. After 7.5mins I got one game. One single fracking game, before it timed out again,and again. So now, timing out after several 10 minute searches in Quick Match and cannot get another one, and 1066 error again! What the frack is the definition of “Quick” for EA? Cannot get any fleet battles either, cannot fracking play! Are they * kidding!?! Operation 2 is live for no-one in the Southern Hemisphere, and update 3.0 fixed fracking NOTHING, you stupid ar$ehats! Fix the fracking game! d!psh!t dumbarses! See attached pics for proof! Should I be anything but angry after 7 weeks of this bullish!t? Tell me, how should a consumer feel?
