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[spova]

Im trying to get my friend to play MWO with me and get him in to the game. However when ever we play together it never puts our group in a game. We have waited a long time but always end up just quitting and playing something else. How do we play with friends?

[Brauer]

spova, on 28 March 2020 - 05:15 PM, said:

Im trying to get my friend to play MWO with me and get him in to the game. However when ever we play together it never puts our group in a game. We have waited a long time but always end up just quitting and playing something else. How do we play with friends?

GroupQ has no population. You need to either drop in FW as a group or sync drop in quick play.

[GreyVonne]

Oh here we go.
Endorsing exploits.

[Vxheous]

GreyVonne, on 28 March 2020 - 05:53 PM, said:

Oh here we go.
Endorsing exploits.

It's the state of the game now, population has dropped to the point where people don't queue for group queue, period.

[spova]

Oh that's a bummer. Seems like the QP queue need to be changed or fixed or the game will not be able to grow. Here I can't even really get my friend in to it because of this.

[Ghogiel]

spova, on 28 March 2020 - 06:43 PM, said:

or the game will not be able to grow.

[FRAGTAST1C]

spova, on 28 March 2020 - 06:43 PM, said:

Oh that's a bummer. Seems like the QP queue need to be changed or fixed or the game will not be able to grow. Here I can't even really get my friend in to it because of this.

PGI could allow solos to opt into GQ so that there'd always be someone to play against and then eventually more groups could be formed. But PGI.....

[K O Z A K]

spova, on 28 March 2020 - 06:43 PM, said:

Oh that's a bummer. Seems like the QP queue need to be changed or fixed or the game will not be able to grow.

You're only a few years too late

[Brauer]

GreyVonne, on 28 March 2020 - 05:53 PM, said:

Oh here we go.
Endorsing exploits.

The funny part is I pretty much never sync drop and haven't noticed sync dropping having any particular impact on QP. Not to mention sync dropping doesn't guarantee you play in the same game much less on the same team.

Edited by Brauer, 28 March 2020 - 08:03 PM.

[Black Caiman]

I would just like to say we have gotten 2 group drops tonight. The quarantine has made miracles happen!

[JediPanther]

spova, on 28 March 2020 - 05:15 PM, said:

Im trying to get my friend to play MWO with me and get him in to the game. However when ever we play together it never puts our group in a game. We have waited a long time but always end up just quitting and playing something else. How do we play with friends?

Your best bet would be private lobby with them.

[Temporary Axis]

GreyVonne, on 28 March 2020 - 05:53 PM, said:

Oh here we go.
Endorsing exploits.

You amuse me. You lack any form of comprehension of the situation.

Carry on

[spova]

JediPanther, on 28 March 2020 - 08:12 PM, said:

Your best bet would be private lobby with them.

This only allows us to play against each other 1v1

[JediPanther]

spova, on 28 March 2020 - 10:05 PM, said:

This only allows us to play against each other 1v1

If you get more friends you can do more people. Sadly mwo really isn't a good game for playing with friends. You could try making your own unit have your friends join the unit then drop in group ques.

[DontTaseMeBro]

GreyVonne, on 28 March 2020 - 05:53 PM, said:

Oh here we go.
Endorsing exploits.

It's an exploit to play with your friends? No wonder this game is dying...……. Never heard of that kind of crazy crap rule in any multiplayer game.

[Kodyn]

DontTaseMeBro, on 29 March 2020 - 07:15 AM, said:

It's an exploit to play with your friends? No wonder this game is dying...……. Never heard of that kind of crazy crap rule in any multiplayer game.

It's not. There's a small but vocal minority on the forums who view sync dropping as the devil's handiwork and cry the sky is falling whenever it's brought up. It's a thing, a thing that happens sometimes, is hard to organize and control, and doesn't have much impact on gameplay overall, particularly on the negative side. The population is also so small it's almost unavoidable for some units, and no one who matters really cares. It's fine.

[Gagis]

They are technically correct in that sync dropping is against the game's terms of service.

Its actively done by every streamer or otherwise notable entity endorsed by PGI, so technicalities may be just technicalities.

[Black Caiman]

The sad thing is is that even though our population isn't that big anymore, its big enough to make group queue work. Our population is just so fractured we cant get enough groups together. When you drop in quick play and basically see 24 people in different units or with no units at all it makes you wonder why we cant consolidate the player base a little better.

[JediPanther]

Black Caiman, on 29 March 2020 - 08:52 AM, said:

The sad thing is is that even though our population isn't that big anymore, its big enough to make group queue work. Our population is just so fractured we cant get enough groups together. When you drop in quick play and basically see 24 people in different units or with no units at all it makes you wonder why we cant consolidate the player base a little better.

People can group up and units can still do unit things. It's just when pgi (use to) constantly mess with game modes and adding in things like a random nuke that got exploited or "trying" to do a.i. with their horrible Escort mode which couldn't even make a non shooting atlas move down a simple path that people give up playing as a group or game mode.

2016 was the last good year to be in a unit. Game's really got to the crapper since. But hey at least they aren't adding in game mechanics no one wanted like ghost heat, selling gold mech skins at $500 per skin or a third person mode or consumables or loot box err surprise mechanics which you once had to buy with real money a key or win one in an event reward.

The community has done years of ideas and fixes for pgi. Pgi has either done a horrible implementation of "their version" or not bothered at all with the ideas. Guess no one wants to data mine eight years of player data on a forum.

[HammerMaster]

Kodyn, on 29 March 2020 - 07:41 AM, said:

It's not. There's a small but vocal minority on the forums who view sync dropping as the devil's handiwork and cry the sky is falling whenever it's brought up.

Vocal minority , Please.
Just because "EVERYONE ELSE" is doing it doesn't make it right.
In fact, the notable players and units doing it are basically bullying people who DON'T do it.

Edited by HammerMaster, 29 March 2020 - 10:00 AM.