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[Bryan Ekman]

Servers will be coming down at 14:30 PST/22:30 UTC for quick hotfix.

Estimated Downtime: 5 mins

This backend hotfix will address known matchmaking issues encountered yesterday.

• Solo players will no longer timeout searching for matches.
  
• 8 player pre-made groups will now only be matched against other 8 player groups.

We ask that players do not close their clients while searching for games. Matchmaking can take up to 3 minutes, and closing your client only delays finding a match further.

[WVAnonymous]

Hooray!

[Kylere]

Close your client? Are they speaking of Alt-tabbing or closing?

[Commander Kobold]

180 seconds THE FIENDS

[Darius Deadeye]

A 3-minute wait seems a little excessive for a 5-10 minute game, don't ya think?

I'm assuming it's just in the utmost extreme you would have to wait for that long, though.

[Hawks]

Bryan Ekman, on 20 February 2013 - 02:08 PM, said:

• 8 player pre-made groups will now only be matched against other 8 player groups.

Excellent

[Commander Kobold]

Kylere, on 20 February 2013 - 02:14 PM, said:

Close your client? Are they speaking of Alt-tabbing or closing?

he means quitting out while the matchmaker is searching for you.

[sparkeyg]

Gaped Kerensky, on 20 February 2013 - 02:12 PM, said:

180 seconds of pure hell

Wait, are they going to start piping in Muzak while we wait?

[Hawkeye 72]

And there was much rejoicing

http://m.youtube.com...v%3DenSYlCEz5VI

[Ave Hax]

Ty Bryan we appreciate it dont listen to the squak we like a good fight more
see ya out there

[Crey Rivers]

what of the promise of being able to drop with 5-7 like we used to...tired of having to leave teammates out of a game because we have more than 4 less than 8...

[Mackman]

Does this mean that Phase 3/Elo is back in?

EDIT: silly me, I should have read the other update. Wooo!

Edited by Mackman, 20 February 2013 - 02:20 PM.

[Darknight99]

Thanks for the hardwork guys. Buy some beers with the mc people buy!

[ShadowSpirit]

Crey Rivers, on 20 February 2013 - 02:16 PM, said:

what of the promise of being able to drop with 5-7 like we used to...tired of having to leave teammates out of a game because we have more than 4 less than 8...

... this x1000.

[Robo_D]

I cant see them ever bringing back the 5-7 man groups. People will just exploit by purposefully dropping with 7 so they can "pug stomp" while ensuring they don't get ***** by another more skilled 8 man.

[urmamasllama]

post failed to mention if this means phase three is back on or not

[Soulryder]

Darius Deadeye, on 20 February 2013 - 02:15 PM, said:

A 3-minute wait seems a little excessive for a 5-10 minute game, don't ya think?

I'm assuming it's just in the utmost extreme you would have to wait for that long, though.

The Patch notes indicated this, but also stated that the time would get shorter the more we played as it would allow the ELO to find matches faster... or something like that

[SpajN]

coming from world of tanks, i rather wait 3 minutes for a good game than 2 seconds for a pointless steamroll because matchmaking priorities a quick find rather than a good find of players.

[Bilbo]

Rotorymaniac, on 20 February 2013 - 02:21 PM, said:

I cant see them ever bringing back the 5-7 man groups. People will just exploit by purposefully dropping with 7 so they can "pug stomp" while ensuring they don't get ***** by another more skilled 8 man.

I don't want my 5-7 man group in the pug queue. I want it in the group queue and either filled in with groups or willing solo players.

[Tarby]

Hopefully Alpine will rotate round quicker. Nothing like having 5 games of alpine in 9 hours (i'm off work) when your getting 5-6 Caustics in a row.