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[ShiverMeTimbersTwasAll4 DaBooty]

I just waited for ten minutes for a quick play match with a heavy Mech. Has QP become faction play?

[sycocys]

No, you are piloting the mech group that is consistently has the highest drop %.

[w0qj]

Usually QP wait is very quick wait!

But when occasionally QP wait is more than 30 seconds, I press "Cancel" and then immediately press "QP" button again.
This works for me!

[LordNothing]

it can get slow late at night, in what i call the oc dead zone. when you play has a huge effect on drop rate and match quality.

[VeeOt Dragon]

yeah the time of day you log in is a huge factor in addition to the wight class. if i find myself with long wait times (i often play heavies) i will first try the old Cancel and retry. if that doesn't work i try dropping a medium or an Assault (i don't play lights other than the Ubie).

[Meep Meep]

You can see the percentage of mech classes in the queue so make sure to pick a mech that has the lowest number and you will get a match fairly fast. Light mechs traditionally get fast matches. Also general pop has dropped a fair bit due to all the new popular games hitting recently so this is going to draw away regulars for a while. Same for me. Playing a bunch of new games and not much time left over for mwo so I'm only getting a few matches every few days instead of long sessions. Such is the life of an aging game. Be glad we have a hardcore base that won't leave until they turn off the servers so the game should limp on for a few more years.

[TheCaptainJZ]

Check your server selection settings, first of all. If you have NA and European selected, you should be all right for matches. Oceanic only? You might have a hard time.

[Tarl Cabot]

^^ to two of the previous posts. Server selection restricted set? and if more than a minute or so, cancel and start over due to the MM either not seeing you or some other issue.

As for the posts about the % number per mech class and which weight class will get the quickest match had only mattered when PGI had the Solo queue set to 2-2-2-2 or 3-3-3-3. After PGI started selling single mech packs and had to manually open up THAT window, after several months they either removed it or set it to open after a fraction of the time.

The above was before the merge of the solo/group queue. The solo queue had still had same weight class matchups per teams in place until the merge into the Soup queue, or just Quick Play now, which is using the Group queue MM setup, which didnt/doesnt include 3-3-3-3-3, and the matching overall tonnage (not weight class) is one of the first things to go out the door.

Edited by Tarl Cabot, 13 March 2023 - 05:26 PM.

[sycocys]

Tarl Cabot, on 13 March 2023 - 05:21 PM, said:

^^ to two of the previous posts. Server selection restricted set? and if more than a minute or so, cancel and start over due to the MM either not seeing you or some other issue.

As for the posts about the % number per mech class and which weight class will get the quickest match had only mattered when PGI had the Solo queue set to 2-2-2-2 or 3-3-3-3. After PGI started selling single mech packs and had to manually open up THAT window, after several months they either removed it or set it to open after a fraction of the time.

The above was before the merge of the solo/group queue. The solo queue had still had same weight class matchups per teams in place until the merge into the Soup queue, or just Quick Play now, which is using the Group queue MM setup, which didnt/doesnt include 3-3-3-3-3, and the matching overall tonnage (not weight class) is one of the first things to go out the door.

They just stated in that last podcast that weight does still play a role in MM, it is probably one of the first things to open up though like you say, often see it seeded with extra heavies.

[Meep Meep]

My experience at least during prime time is that the percentages do matter and I get much faster queue times if I go with the lowest. Later in the night when pop drops to skeleton crew levels then yeah I get long queues regardless of percentage and the rosters tend to be quite unbalanced.