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[NKAc Street]

Hey crying noobs that got rolled thank you for pushing PGI to program this latest pile of bullshit.

[JHackworth]

in case this isn't obvious already, queue times are terrible across all weight classes, 942 EST PM, still waiting on a match after 5 minutes.

A word of advice, it's pretty clear that the more constrains you place on matchmaker, the longer it is going to take to resolve conflicts; and since your algo isn't best fit and depth-limited as far as we can tell...this is going to suck forever.

This should be a design problem, not a programming problem.

Edited by JHackworth, 20 May 2014 - 05:49 PM.

[oldradagast]

Still having issues - it took about 4 minutes to find a match at 9:44 pm EDT with a heavy mech in the solo PUG queue.

[Blue Drache]

1 light, 1 medium ... took forever to match up.

[Kovaul]

Average wait times seem to be around 10+min no matter what weight class.

All times are for solo drops

Firestarter 11 min (matchmaker claimed lights were queuing fastest)

Firestarter 13min the cancelled.

Jagermech - 12 min then cancelled
Jagermech - 9 min

these wait times are unacceptable, In the last hour I've spent the bulk of my time waiting not playing, you need to restore matchmaker to the way it was before this patch I almost never had to wait then and if a match was sometimes unbalanced so what? most of the games I played in were good enough to make me want to play and keep playing. Now I can't play and am just irritated at wasting an hour so its off to LOTRO.

[Noachian]

Man I'm glad I held off on any clan package purchases. This is ridiculous.

[Oorko]

This is ridiculous. MWO is fun, but its not nearly fun enough to justify waiting this long in a queue for a game. Too many other options out there

[Kendricke]

In the last few months, a true stomp would be rare. I've seen several today. In fact, the most even match I've been in all day had 5 kills on the losing team. EVERY other match was a full stomp with a max of 3 kills on the losing team.

This is AFTER waiting anywhere from 3-30 minutes to get into a match. Matches are taking far less time than the waits to get in.

By the way, last match had 5 Assaults on my team. We rolled the other team 12-2. They also had 5 assaults, I believe.

Update: Last match, 5 heavies on my team. 7 minute wait to get in. 12-2 win.

Edited by Kendricke, 20 May 2014 - 06:19 PM.

[William Chase Davion]

With lights I got a match in 3-5 minutes. My Thunderbolt however waited closer to 10.

Heavies are my favorite weight class. I thought about preordering the Timber Wolf and Summoner, but I have no desire to if I'm going to have to wait 10+ minutes to get them in a match.

I will try playing again Friday night. If the wait times are too long, I'm taking a break until next patch.

[Wilf Brim]

Have tried several times this evening for a match, never got one. Very disappointing.

[Bolt-Thrower]

One match in 30 minutes of waiting....really???? why are you gents fixing something that wasn't really broke? There will always be mismatches...it is part of MechWarrior...you fight in what you bring..it is up to the MechWarrior to adjust what suits him...not the matchmaker.

[Jolly Llama]

First of all, bump. That should annoy the moderater as much as the wait time annoys me. Second, 3/3/3/3 is rediculous. Let us play what we want and just use ELO. If people get their ass kicked, then drop their ELO until it is inverse to their EGO.

[LordDUBER]

I may need to take a MechWarrior vacation due to the wait times.

[Bigbacon]

Fun is the name of the game and if people can't have fun then you need to fix it back to what it was so we can have fun again...

[horik]

Having a great difficulty finding a match today 20 may 14.

[RBH4082]

Guys,

Matchmaker tweaking 5/20/14.

You gave it a shot.

Its not working. There will never be a way to satisfy all the players on every match.

Regarding the matchmaking on weight class - forget trying to "even things out" with 3/3/3/3. The random drops are fine. That's one of the things that adds variety to the game. Some games go great, some don't. Either way, there's always the next match just a few minutes away.

You can even play over and over again with your friends on the same team.

That's that way it was working until today.

There's not ever going to be a way of perfectly balancing things for every game and every match. This is a game of attrition and violent conquest - not one of democratic fair fights.

Let the roll of the dice dictate the matchup and let people jump into matches quickly and together, if that's what they want.

Put things how they were. No one gets experience waiting on the damn match to lock.

Please, its ruining the game experience.

PS. I wrote this comment during a wait for a match. Its been 15+ minutes - and then I lost connection to the server.

Please fix this.

[Kali Rinpoche]

4 Matches in 2 1/2 hours. Had enough until this failed experiment is removed and I had 15k mc burning a hole in my virtual wallet. Looks like I will be taking a break until this is fixed. I appreciate what PGI has done in attempt to balance things, but not being able to play is a deal breaker. Thanks for the effort developers but shelve this stuff until CW is done and out. Come back in a year and look at it again when everyone is fat and happy in CW.

[TheLetterN]

Great patch...
10 - 15min waits, finally get into matches and either have 2-3 DC on each team, people are afk for matches.
I feel bad for new players, wanting to buy mechs as well. Hell I am trying to get one and I have to wait a hour just to get 1/50th the cbills needed for the mech alone, not to mention upgrading it to be any good.

3/3/3/3 was a ok idea on paper, in practice it is terrible. If you want to balance things like that, do it for clan matches (You know, like that match where a team was all UAC5 jagermechs...), do not do it to PUG players, it slows the game to a crawl.
Please fix this mess PGI

[N Danger]

I have been trying to play since 6:45 PM Dropping solo.
10 minute wait in a Light. Error no match found 15 minutes in a Medium. No match found Re-started client and 12 minute wait in a medium and then the server went down.
FYI there was a 4 man team playing at the same time finding drops with in 3 minutes

[RonanFrost]

oh, hey, look... a lance that brought 3 lights and a cicada, and 2 more cicadas... you've fixed so much. i'll take being up against a team with 10 assault mechs over this "balance" any day.

and, since i never 'gripe' without a suggested fix to make it constructive, the cicada should be put in with the lights in matchmaker, since that's how it's being played.