The Geofiltering patch has utterly destroyed the game everywhere outside of EU/NA. Not only have you entirely removed the ability to connect to our own servers you are now forcing us onto overseas servers despite having WAY MORE than enough population to fill queues.
I have tested over the course of many games, the game practically no longer recognizes small countries as a valid play space at all even if me and 200+ players from the same region queue in at the same time we will still end up being sent to NA with 250~ms.
This patch is absolutely decimating the population of smaller countries REGION SELECT NEEDS TO BE IMPLEMENTED IMMEDIATELY if you are not going to fix the utterly garbage MM system that is currently in place. The game is currently unplayable and it has gone from a game I am playing every day and finishing every weekly to a game I haven’t logged on again till now to do the Tenrai event and even then holy S*** is it a struggle to play, games on 200+ ping hell even 100+ ping are not enjoyable to play and never will be ESPECIALLY not an FPS.
I’m getting more games at 25ms than before. I have to wait longer for them… And it’s better in afternoons/evenings. But the pings are definitely better.
When I do get those 90-180ms games the game feels a lot crisper.
And I no longer get 240ms+ sludge games. These happened a couple of times a day and on reflection they were probably people using geofilters and dragging me to the other side of the world.
Couldn’t agree more, that’s why I stopped playing.
I check back here fairly regularly to see if anything’s changed because I do really enjoy the game and I would play it again if they fixed the region select. I suspect it may be too late by the time they fix it though, the player base might dwindle forcing us into those regions anyway.
If they’re watching the falling active player numbers my guess is they’ll focus on milking those hotter markets to recoup costs.
Update the recent patch seems to have some unwritten patch notes that had changes to the MM system. MM in smaller regions seems to be slightly better as of the patch, the game now at least giving some priority to giving you a longer queue but putting you on your own servers. Longer queues are preferred by everyone I know as long as it results in getting your local server or at least something close to it.
The issue is far from solved and wont be until region select is a thing but this patch has at least made the game somewhat more consistent to play.
Do you think that they actually read these forums?
I have yet to see a 343 employee post here. Not even any of their “community managers”. It’s like they think twitter is the end all be all of communicating.