Please, please show us how many players are waiting in each lobby for each game type.
Yesterday I had 4 challenges regarding game modes at the same time - 1 tactical slayer, 1 free for all, 1 fiesta, 1 quickplay.
I waited 10 minutes for FFA - no luck.
I waited 10 minutes for fiesta - no luck.
I waited 10 minutes for quickplay - got the ‘cannot connect to fireteam’ death-loop.
Disconnected and reconnected the internet to get rid of the loop. Waited some more to not get another quickplay.
I waited 10 minutes for tactical slayer - got a match, played it, and the second one after another 7-8 minutes wait.
Are there really that few players queueing for games?
Please give us a count somewhere so we know which mode we have a chance to play sometime soon.
Or give us some kind of ‘join any of selected modes’ button. Or even ‘join anything’ button. I hate switching between lobbies just to wait another 10 minutes to see if I get a match or not.
Did this start for you when the matchmaking patch got deployed last week? What region are you playing in? It’s easily possible for those to be connected. Since then they wait longer before matching you out of region. There’s two ways for them to get it to go faster:
allow higher ping (many people argued they’d rather wait longer than being put into high-ping matches which led to the recent changes)
relax SBMM, so it allows you to play with people who are quite a bit higher or lower than you in skill
Well, there is a third option but that’s largely out of 343i’s hands. Increase player population in your region.
PS: Giving you more information on the population or giving you a match composer like in MCC would of course be a good idea, so you have a better basis for your decisions.
No, it used to be similar, I don’t notice any big change in wait times recently really (I didn’t time it precisely though so I’m not sure if there is any minor change).
The problem is worse at night, a bit smaller in the evening when I guess more people play. Still, sometimes I just have no luck searching for some modes on some days (until I get fed up with searching for a mode - I’m patient but I won’t wait 15-20 min to get a match).
As for ping - both before and after the recent change I usually get games at 25-60 ping, very rarely do I get worse pings. That hasn’t changed for me in a noticeable way since I started playing Infinite around December.
As for SBMM in many games I score as one of the highest scores, first 2 in 4v4, around first 3-4 scores in BTB (unless I play tired after work and do horribly ), so I don’t think that’s the issue. Actually one of the things I wonder is why I feel like I do much worse in ranked than in casual modes. Is there a way much better player base playing ranked than casual? Or do I just suck with BR? (Also I have a bad rank - I got myself placed there when I was starting out in Infinite without much earlier, recent experience in shooters, I got much better since then after familiarizing myself with the game mechanics. When I play ranked I get consistently ranked up when I win and I don’t get down the rank if I lose, which I guess means my current rank hidden ‘score’ is higher, but leveling up the rank is a pain if you have to wait 15-20 min to get matched for a ranked match and then get a match with 2-3 people on each team who are unranked, some of whom are clearly very skilled, and some don’t know which way the rifle shoots making matches really uneven.)
Still, any indication of how many people are in which lobby and where it’s worth my time to wait for a match would be nice - either by a precise number of players, maybe even a lobby where we can chat with each other (GASP - interaction between players, oh no!) Or just a statistic number telling us how much time we’ll have to wait on average to get a match at current rate players join (there was a counter earlier on but it never worked and was removed I guess?)
Or alternatively, a way to just say ‘I want to play either fiesta, BTB, quickplay or ranked - whichever matches first’ without having to queue each mode separately.
), so I don’t think that’s the issue. Actually one of the things I wonder is why I feel like I do much worse in ranked than in casual modes. Is there a way much better player base playing ranked than casual? Or do I just suck with BR? (Also I have a bad rank - I got myself placed there when I was starting out in Infinite without much earlier, recent experience in shooters, I got much better since then after familiarizing myself with the game mechanics. When I play ranked I get consistently ranked up when I win and I don’t get down the rank if I lose, which I guess means my current rank hidden ‘score’ is higher, but leveling up the rank is a pain if you have to wait 15-20 min to get matched for a ranked match and then get a match with 2-3 people on each team who are unranked, some of whom are clearly very skilled, and some don’t know which way the rifle shoots making matches really uneven.)