Living not only in Australia, but Tasmania, it takes a while for me to find games. Sometimes I simply don’t. This makes playlist specific challenges a pain to complete. This is particularly frustrating when I don’t have all the time in the world to play this game, and that’s assuming I even find a game (and if I do it’s usually 180+ ping). This has made progressing towards weeklies a nightmare, and I’m not looking forward to how it’s going to impact the battlepass progression for the next season. And the idea of requiring challenge swaps, an item I have to pay for, to progress towards free rewards is ridiculous.
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Depends what you are looking for.
Event games are pretty good. 25ms. Late afternoon to after midnight.
Some playlists don’t really have numbers until 8pm or so.
I find ranked works best about 9pm.
Sometimes cancelling the search and then starting again seems to work. Probably just coincidence - but I usually cancel and start again if I’ve gotten out to 3 mins waiting.
And I find the ping a bit misleading. Had plenty of games that felt crisp despite 150-200ms. And on the same token, 100ms and it can be awful.
Hopefully we get a bit of a population bump with S2.
PS. Tassie!
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That’s some useful info, cheers. Reveals another problem though aha. A game that has been out for like 6 months requires us to play at certain times to find games. God that is depressing
It’s frustrating for sure.
I think the S1 content was solid - just not spread over 6 months.
S2 looks very good. But again I worry that it won’t stretch to 6 months.
There is a lot of pressure on the Forge beta in the back half.
PS. How does a Tasmanian end up with a gamertag referencing a moose?
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Forge will 100% be keeping the game alive by the later half of the season, no doubt
A bunch of us decided to become a the “Moose Clan” so we all changed our names to have moose at the end. How we chose moose I have no idea, one of us just said it at random I think aha. It’s pretty cringe ey 
I agree. I have no swaps and my challenges wont progress so i cant get the black visor unless i pay 
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It’s unfortunate. Even some of the challenges on their own are a pain to pursue. Grenade sticks for example. With the still present de-sync issues as well as lag it is so common for my nades to just phase through players.
I tried to get my mates to do something similar with smurf. I was Rabid Smurf. But nobody else wanted to.
And probably a good thing seeing how Smurf is it’s own gaming term now.
Just play Fiesta. Grab a sticky. And wait for someone to come at you with the sword. You’ll die of course… but they literally run straight at you.
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That is some 200iq stuff right there
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I agree some are still pretty bad, i have “kill enemy spartans trying to return their flag 3 times” and “kill enemy spartans attacking a friendly zone 10 times” and no swaps. I’m dang bummed because i want the black visor
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Yea those types are real rough. You’re held hostage not only by the behaviour of other players, but also the RNG of getting a CTF match. That’s unfortunate mate
Watch the Intro for Monty Python and the Holy Grail, has a lot of moose in it.
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Wow, that’s really unfortunate. Best of luck getting that done. Makes me really thankful for the less awful challenges that I got this week.
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Yeah man i have to hope my team drops the flag, and i have to hope an enemy goes to return it whom i can kill, i have to hope for ctf. Ive been searching since 4am last night… not a single ctf
Here’s to hoping season 2 will improve the challenges. May you never have to experience that again