Poor Matchmaking
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below is copy and past of bungie reply, and myself below that.
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may as well remove OCE servers. impossible to find servers now. 1 second delay breaking windows and hitmarkers. i prefered before update where i was able to get OCE servers 20 out of 24hrs of the day, and rook on the last 4. if you decide to stay with current implementation, to retain any players, an option if people want to expand their matching should be available... ive never experiences such unplayable servers from uk, philipenes.... its game breaking that your forcing australia to have high ping to fulfill other country servers. no one will play at all. So little aus servers, even ROOK gets matched into god knows what part of the world. constant red loading symbol top right...
thats my feedback..
I - brisbane australia... NEVER had an issue prior update. NOW... 80% of the time. i may as well not play. i lose mykit to a person that is a second ahead of me.
strongly strongly advised to implement the option to satisfy your goal and people who are happy to wait for a match.
current wait time is 5mins.... id be fine waiting 10 or a little more, if it meant a fair/playable match. Ive seen this complaint everywhere.
playerbase will only shrink. = less servers.. please consider allowing us to server lock our region if we are happy to wait longer for a OCE server/game to be available.
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Even showing the ping ms would be nice so i know if just just resign from the match from the start. ive had to download 3rd party software which has been a headache to set up (TCPView) to know which ip im connecting, to then trace that each match to find the latency im working with.
many other things in the game id love (basic stats/message friend-quite the 2026 standards of online gaming.).. but amoung all - the matchmaking update... made a perfectly fine game i could play any time of the day except 4-6am... into an unplayable one that i get oce server around midday... and then 1 every 3-5 matches. and ZERO between 8pm-7am...
You can keep your current implementation of helping find matches, but players should be able to chose to restrict it to a max ping, or region, if they want a chance at retaining what they bring in, and are fine with extra delay if thats the cost. Coming from a few K hrs in tarkov ... if at middnight or 2am i have to wait 15mins for a match to fill.. thats perfectly understandable.. but resorting to using OCE as useless cattle for other countries fill is not the answer.
I may have repeated myself multiple times, multiple ways..im sorry for that and this essay. Along with my poor grammar/speed typing-
Im so frustrated and trying to find a reason to bother playing at all. I load in with not even a free kit just to fulfill my uselessness in raid now.
It worries me that this is its current and future state. I hope youve received similar feedback and are contemplating such a revert, or fix.
If no plans are even on the table. im ready to walk away... i got my near 400hrs worth so thats fine. But surely, from what ive seen, people are not happy with the matching.
ok Ive repeated and expressed the issue enough... I know this message which just go in the bottom of the pile if there is even one for this topic.
Beautiful game. I was learning ue5 for nearly 3 years making open world survival with a very similar theme.. but you blew my idea, aura, lore, quality, originality out of the water, that i have no inspiration to continue the work i done.. but that is compliment. you have created an AMAZING game. I really congratulate you all, regardless of the hate i see. Keep ignoring them, ive seen the haters turning into lovers after they try it out... I was one of them, but server slam sold me.. and I fell in love. Id love to keep playing is all. Good luck with this project and its future if servers wont be available for us in the future.
I really just wanted to say that to the whole team. Halo, destiny, and this... legendary and original games that a memorable... I do wish the best unrelated to this post.
Hello there,
Thank you very much for reaching out to us. I'm sorry to hear about your matchmaking difficulties. We've taken note of this thread and will continue monitoring this as we are always looking into ways of improving the game and the matchmaking.
Thankyou. I highlighted in bold a post that i posted at the same time you did. In Short:
I would love to continue playing, and i wish bungie all the best regardless. Your Game is beautiful.
On a very final note; which should be obvious and unsure why prioritising matching over server performance was considered - is with such high ping - not only are we a second behind in combat which results in potential loss... but its a looter extraction .. so we even miss out clicking the valuable shiny loot before the loot goblins in my squad can... Allowing the ping to be so high just to fill matches, affects so many aspects - even the most important part of just opening a loot crate and missing out when on our screens we saw it first.
Its great you listened to the community, and im not sure of the magnitude of issues people were having, that you needed to expand the matching. You tried to solve a problem which is amazing as developers! From AUS (in my personal experience) it was only an issue for the 4 hours of the early night time morning when no one with a job should be playing anyway. But current implementation needs tightening - like max 80-120 (personally even 100-120 is too high).. But how it feels without knowing what my ping is, it feels something between 120-250 somewhere. Tighten the matching abit more, or user choice to region lock would be two of many appropriate solutions in my (little) knowledge.
I wont continue anymore essays. ive said way more than i planned. Because i focused more on the pvp side to begin with, I just wanted to highlight even the pve part of the game.. the acquisition of loot is broken for us - lost to players closer/in the server region, that will deeply destroy peoples motivation to play... due to the such high latency. - but again. Im sure your fully aware of this kind of issue.
Ending the post HERE.
Thanks for your time.
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