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[Scandinavian Jawbreaker]

So I thought I'd try playing the leaderboard for a change just for fun. The sad truth is that my average search for a match is around 5 minutes with an assault in the solo queue. I've only played 9 matches so far so that means I've been staring at SEARCHING for 45 minutes total. That is a waste of time and I'm seriously thinking about not playing the tournament now.

This happens in Tier 1. These kind of wait times are not acceptable in any ways, assault or not.

[Alistair Winter]

I just got a match in under 2 minutes. I'm in the match right now, actually. Which servers are you playing on? I'm on American server only. Checking more boxes should reduce search time, obviously. There's also a weird phenomenon where sometimes cancelling the search and trying again gets you put in a match immediately. It would be fun to run an experiment to check if that's a coincidence.

[Deathlike]

The wait is OK. I'm running a Light to troll most of the terrible Assault pilots.

Farmin' is fun.

[Gas Guzzler]

Deathlike, on 11 August 2016 - 12:27 PM, said:

The wait is OK. I'm running a Light to troll most of the terrible Assault pilots.

Farmin' is fun.

[Scandinavian Jawbreaker]

Alistair Winter, on 11 August 2016 - 12:26 PM, said:

I just got a match in under 2 minutes. I'm in the match right now, actually. Which servers are you playing on? I'm on American server only. Checking more boxes should reduce search time, obviously. There's also a weird phenomenon where sometimes cancelling the search and trying again gets you put in a match immediately. It would be fun to run an experiment to check if that's a coincidence.

I have NA and EU checked. Maybe I am just unlucky but I literally have time to smoke a cigarette, watch youtube and take a piss while searching a match. Feels like wasting my time. Also I am talking about assault mechs, not any weight class. I am sure I'd get a match faster with a medium or a light but I'd like to play the leaderboards for this event.

[Deathlike]

Gas Guzzler, on 11 August 2016 - 12:29 PM, said:

Was thinking of you Gas.

[Bazlborn2]

I have noticed over the last week, that wait times have become atrocious. I had multiple 10 minute waits in a medium last night. I'm playing NA and EU servers, and at peak times in the evenings. I can only imagine playing an assault this weekend will exasperate the problem.

[Deathlike]

Job done, grind complete.

[LowSubmarino]

in my beautiful Hunchbacks I rarely wait long.

Quick play is fast and you dont wait.

Faction Play would be such a long wait time that I could learn all languages on the entire planet twice and then have enough time to ride a bycicle to the moon and back and then enjoy a marriage of 89 years before FP is anywhere near rdy for a game.

Nobody can wait that long.

Its just way way WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY too long (X100000000000000000).

Make it 100.000.0000 % shorter and maybe some ppl will start to play it. Anything less and it will stay as dead as it is now.

[Scandinavian Jawbreaker]

I am talking about ASSAULT MECHS during this TOURNAMENT that can be seen here: https://mwomercs.com...t=201608assault

I am fully aware that search times with medium or heavy or light mechs is way less.

[Deathlike]

ugrakarma, on 11 August 2016 - 12:55 PM, said:

I am talking about ASSAULT MECHS during this TOURNAMENT that can be seen here: https://mwomercs.com...t=201608assault

I am fully aware that search times with medium or heavy or light mechs is way less.

I'm fully aware too.

That's why avoiding the traffic is optimal.

[LowSubmarino]

ugrakarma, on 11 August 2016 - 12:55 PM, said:

I am talking about ASSAULT MECHS during this TOURNAMENT that can be seen here: https://mwomercs.com...t=201608assault

I am fully aware that search times with medium or heavy or light mechs is way less.

Assault mechs suck.

Play mediums and see your enemy scream in unrestrained horror as they chocke on the smoke of their exploding cockpits.

[AnTi90d]

God damn.. I'm glad I'm still in scrubby old Tier 2. I haven't had to wait longer than 30 seconds dropping in my Atlas and Mauler.

[Monkey Lover]

Lol 5 minutes is nothing. It takes my unit like 10 just to ready up hehe.

[dervishx5]

So when Wargaming throws some sort of tournament or event, they often give goals to spread players out.

Take WoWarships for example. If the event is about getting 50 kills in a Destroyer, they'll also have an active goal of killing 50 Destroyers. That way the classes remain more or less evenly split.

[Revis Volek]

Deathlike, on 11 August 2016 - 12:27 PM, said:

The wait is OK. I'm running a Light to troll most of the terrible Assault pilots.

Farmin' is fun.

Never play in the mech that is up for the Leaderboard. JUst results in frustration and long wait times...


Also if yu arent playing 8 hours a day for the remainder of the event you wont be farming good matches enough to even place. It all about statistics and how many bad matches you have to play to get ONE good one.


Really boring, no skill needed just lots of play time.

dervishx5, on 11 August 2016 - 01:26 PM, said:

So when Wargaming throws some sort of tournament or event, they often give goals to spread players out.

Take WoWarships for example. If the event is about getting 50 kills in a Destroyer, they'll also have an active goal of killing 50 Destroyers. That way the classes remain more or less evenly split.

This is how you have an event but still have it open to everyone. What if you dont own a destroyer? Or just dont like them?

Kudos to War Gaming for understanding how to keep everyone happy even if said event isnt really for them. Maybe PGI could learn something from these guys...


but its isnt Russ' idea so its bad.

[Felicitatem Parco]

I tweeted Russ earlier today to ask if he loosened the MatchMaker thresholds for Assault weight class. He promptly replied "Yes, I did."

[Narcissistic Martyr]

Ok... so... anyone wanna bet on whether PGI will wise up for the next weight class tourney and turn off weight class match making? I mean... it kind of defeats the point of having a leaderboard just for that.

[Leone]

Honestly, I've never been able to drop heavies back to back so quickly before. But then, I don't play much quick play, or on Thursdays, so maybe it's just me.

~Leone.

[Elizander]

I get games faster when I only have NA checked.