While i think the last update is really gorgeous and that introduces so many goodnesses, i also see how little fixes it brings to multiplayer servers and netcode.
It’s well known how this game can work flawlessly in well populated area, this is the main factor that prevents a lot of US players to experience 90% the issues this game has, but going outside these zones the situation changes, A LOT.
I’m from Europe, so i’m speaking for what i and people i know can see (but i’m aware that in zones like AUS and Mid East countries situation in 100x worse), and here i see many horrible game breaking issues along with some unbearable lacks.
I’ll make some examples prefacing that i usually play in weekends, using balanced/focused option:
Less population makes more difficult to find players in a reasonable amount of time, especially because of ranking system that filters out the majority of available players if your rank is high (diamond/onyx is sufficient). This leads to very long waiting times in search lobbies and many “Unable to find players” pop ups; - The previous point forces many of us to switch to “Expanded” in order to at least play a game, but this turn immediately the game into an horrendous lag fest because expanded removes all the connection quality limits (NOT THE RANKING ONES) making us playing in other continents data centers with average pings of 150ms / 200ms; - Even managing to find games with balanced sometimes issues like bad frame drops, lag spikes, teleporting, disconnections etc. show up; - Last but not least, the proof EU matchmaking is completely left to itself since game release: Microsoft is costantly expanding the Azure’s data centers number around the world: in Europe we started with 2 centers (Amsterdam, Dublin) and now we have 4 more (2 London, 2 Germany), also 2 more are coming in France. Guess how many new centers are currently in H5 rotation? NONE (SOURCE: many netduma user i know). Even Titanfall 2 during its beta period was able to update its data centers pool to take also the newly added servers i spoken about.All this matters are crucial IMO, and i think that if 343 won’t do any improvement in H5, but mostly in H6, this franchise will be nearly dead outside its homeland in the next 2-3 years (if not sooner).
I really love this game, and i’m really glad of all the features 343 was able to give us FOR FREE, but i cannot ignore all the holes in the matchmaking system foundation on which everything is based.
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> While i think the last update is really gorgeous and that introduces so many goodnesses, i also see how little fixes it brings to multiplayer servers and netcode.
> It’s well known how this game can work flawlessly in well populated area, this is the main factor that prevents a lot of US players to experience 90% the issues this game has, but going outside these zones the situation changes, A LOT.
> I’m from Europe, so i’m speaking for what i and people i know can see (but i’m aware that in zones like AUS and Mid East countries situation in 100x worse), and here i see many horrible game breaking issues along with some unbearable lacks.
> I’ll make some examples prefacing that i usually play in weekends, using balanced/focused option:
> - Less population makes more difficult to find players in a reasonable amount of time, especially because of ranking system that filters out the majority of available players if your rank is high (diamond/onyx is sufficient). This leads to very long waiting times in search lobbies and many “Unable to find players” pop ups; - The previous point forces many of us to switch to “Expanded” in order to at least play a game, but this turn immediately the game into an horrendous lag fest because expanded removes all the connection quality limits (NOT THE RANKING ONES) making us playing in other continents data centers with average pings of 150ms / 200ms; - Even managing to find games with balanced sometimes issues like bad frame drops, lag spikes, teleporting, disconnections etc. show up; - Last but not least, the proof EU matchmaking is completely left to itself since game release: Microsoft is costantly expanding the Azure’s data centers number around the world: in Europe we started with 2 centers (Amsterdam, Dublin) and now we have 4 more (2 London, 2 Germany), also 2 more are coming in France. Guess how many new centers are currently in H5 rotation? NONE (SOURCE: many netduma user i know). Even Titanfall 2 during its beta period was able to update its data centers pool to take also the newly added servers i spoken about.All this matters are crucial IMO, and i think that if 343 won’t do any improvement in H5, but mostly in H6, this franchise will be nearly dead outside its homeland in the next 2-3 years (if not sooner).
> I really love this game, and i’m really glad of all the features 343 was able to give us FOR FREE, but i cannot ignore all the holes in the matchmaking system foundation on which everything is based.
100% agreed, it’s so difficult to find FFA games nowadays in eu and that’s my favourite playlist. Really sucks.
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> > 2533274822267898;1:
> > While i think the last update is really gorgeous and that introduces so many goodnesses, i also see how little fixes it brings to multiplayer servers and netcode.
> > It’s well known how this game can work flawlessly in well populated area, this is the main factor that prevents a lot of US players to experience 90% the issues this game has, but going outside these zones the situation changes, A LOT.
> > I’m from Europe, so i’m speaking for what i and people i know can see (but i’m aware that in zones like AUS and Mid East countries situation in 100x worse), and here i see many horrible game breaking issues along with some unbearable lacks.
> > I’ll make some examples prefacing that i usually play in weekends, using balanced/focused option:
> > - Less population makes more difficult to find players in a reasonable amount of time, especially because of ranking system that filters out the majority of available players if your rank is high (diamond/onyx is sufficient). This leads to very long waiting times in search lobbies and many “Unable to find players” pop ups; - The previous point forces many of us to switch to “Expanded” in order to at least play a game, but this turn immediately the game into an horrendous lag fest because expanded removes all the connection quality limits (NOT THE RANKING ONES) making us playing in other continents data centers with average pings of 150ms / 200ms; - Even managing to find games with balanced sometimes issues like bad frame drops, lag spikes, teleporting, disconnections etc. show up; - Last but not least, the proof EU matchmaking is completely left to itself since game release: Microsoft is costantly expanding the Azure’s data centers number around the world: in Europe we started with 2 centers (Amsterdam, Dublin) and now we have 4 more (2 London, 2 Germany), also 2 more are coming in France. Guess how many new centers are currently in H5 rotation? NONE (SOURCE: many netduma user i know). Even Titanfall 2 during its beta period was able to update its data centers pool to take also the newly added servers i spoken about.All this matters are crucial IMO, and i think that if 343 won’t do any improvement in H5, but mostly in H6, this franchise will be nearly dead outside its homeland in the next 2-3 years (if not sooner).
> > I really love this game, and i’m really glad of all the features 343 was able to give us FOR FREE, but i cannot ignore all the holes in the matchmaking system foundation on which everything is based.
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> 100% agreed, it’s so difficult to find FFA games nowadays in eu and that’s my favourite playlist. Really sucks.
In H3 i played mostly Lone Wolves, reaching ability level 49 in 3 years of daily fighting (i had much more free time at those days).
You can guess what are my feelings about that.
I rarely (luckely) have problems finding games, and i only search focused. But i know many of you do.
What infuriates me is that often that game is filled with expanded searchers from US, Brazil etc and my experience i terrible. This should not be possible, we need longer wait times to fill up lobby with people from your region when searching focused, and 100% exclude people from other regions.
Being able to see the lobby get filled slowly instead of just only when all players are there would be great. Id hang around FFA lobby for a long time if i saw 2-3 other guys waiting as well.
And yes as EBLspartan wrote, why Arent we on these new azure data centers yet?
along with the many positives in this update (thank you 343) quite a few negatives came as well.
After this update ive seen an increase in
game crashes - dedicated server fail screen - people from a million miles away in my focused lobby
I live in Ireland and altough wait times aren’t that bad (usually 1-5 mins for popular playlists on balanced). However I’m constantly being disconnected from games and there is some serious lag in the matchmaking and I’m constantly teleporting 2 metres to my left, then backwards, then I can’t pick up weapons and it’s a frustrating mess (a problem I also have with MCC). I understand where youre coming from and I am experiencing the exact same issue.
I usually search for games in Slayer: with focused is basically impossible to find games for me, with balanced i have to wait and retry 2-3 times (after search timeout screen) to get one instead.