483 replies to this topic

[deliriak]

matches are much more even since the patch, it takes longer to get in at the minute but lets let it run for a bit to see how it pans out

[Hekalite]

My initial impression of the ELO matchmaker is positive, aside from the long waits, but I understand that will be tuned. I am however curious why the group size is still limited to max of 4 or 8 only?

[Lubalin]

Read this. Updated 2 minutes ago:
https://mwomercs.com...79-matchmaking/

[Matthew Craig]

http://mwomercs.com/...ost__p__1922353

[BINDLETORC]

8 minutes of play vs. 75 minutes of waiting. matchmaking may not be the best idea for more than just this reason.

[Matthew Craig]

Please give us as much feedback as you can on the adjustment that is going live now (4-6pm PST) particularly times to find a match for lone wolf players.

Thanks

[Zomboyd]

the new system is not very good. most players dont care about the skil llevel of the opponent they just want to play. i think the elo system is not good for the game or the community

[The Jove]

And again, 10 minutes of waiting, no match found. Match found, CTD.

Giving up for the night.

[Bludhawk]

I have not read anywhere that it has been changed, so I am posting it as a bug. The "Class Matchmaking" in pug matches is not working. I have had a few matches where enemy teams have had multiple assault mechs while my team has had none or vice versa, or the problem has been with lights/mediums/heavies. This most-likely comes from the new ELO system, but I thought I would submit the problem anyway.

[RightHook]

20 minutes and not one match!
Guess I just don't get to play tonight.
FUBAR!

This is just stupid. PUGS should never wait for a match. There are always pugs out there. There are always permades that need one or two to fill in the gaps! If all the premades are matching up perfectly great grab 16 pugs and let us get on with it.

Come on!
This is not a hard formula to figure out. Processors can make billions of calculations a second, how can it possibly take 20 minutes and not find an answer?
If you need help with it give me a call.

[Woodat]

Matthew Craig, on 19 February 2013 - 04:00 PM, said:

Please give us as much feedback as you can on the adjustment that is going live now (4-6pm PST) particularly times to find a match for lone wolf players.

Thanks

Absolutely no change. Still a massive wait to get into a game, commonly with multiple failures. 1 of the 2 games I've gotten in post server-crash was amazingly well balanced, best gameplay I've ever seen. Still, I'll take quantity over quality though, and maybe a bit more Alpine! 2 hours and haven't seen it once

Edited by Woodat, 19 February 2013 - 04:35 PM.

[gdbecane]

First post in the forum, and over the wish to help the community, it's howerver more to complain.

I have some friends who firstly played MWO. They stop because of the lack of balancing between players in game, and the lack of possibility to choose your mech regarding your teammates.

I can understand their choice. As well as I also wich to get opponnent nearly as good/bad as I am.

But the beginning of the Mathcmaking patch who failed a lot, and a lot to find maches. That is absolutelly too much.
I dont play to loose time, I want to play for fun.
Wathever the Matchmaking calculate, It should stop after a certain maximum of 30sec I would say, and then go find in 10sec a match in a dirty way, probably badly loadbalanced.

Please DEV superTeam find a way to ensure we wait not more than 5% than wath we play.
If not now need to explain you will not loose just one player.

Best Regards,
gdbecane

[arghmace]

After fix:

1st launch took a while but went through. Very good battle.
2nd and 3nd attempts failed.

2:30 AM in here so gotta go sleep now.

[AztecD]

searching for a match, 11 tries and nothing

[HighGround]

I was excited to try out the new changes... until that is of course I could not find a match AT ALL thanks to Phase 3 of the new matchmaker.

I'm a lonewolf most of the time, and I cannot find a match, no matter how long it searches. So far I have not been able to play the new patch.

Please disable the matchmaker phase 3, it needs to go back into testing.

Edited by HighGround, 19 February 2013 - 04:34 PM.

[TVMA Doc]

I'm successful with finding a match only about one time in 20, sometimes even less.

[Barrett Osis]

What ELO really did.............

Made pubbies have a chance.

Took competition play out of the picture. The Marik Civil War is on hold due to it.

With the serious players forced to "pug" we now have no reason to buy MC.

Thanks for making the free game cheaper.

[VenerealDisease]

Out of ten attempts, nine "Failed to find a match." and one successful game in two hours. Time to go play something else.

PGI you should try some form of testing before implementing these new features failures on your player population.

[Yorinar]

Experiencing this one too. Sad panda.

[Kittybang]

Queueing alone, with HBK-4G

After the patch, it usually took 2-3 tries to find a match, didn't keep count... Sometimes longer.

Now after the quickfix, I have not been able to find a match. _At all_. In 30+ minutes.

I noticed though that previously it tried for 2-3 minutes, now it feels like it gives up much sooner and I need to queue again.

Also... three times the client went full screen like when match is starting... black screen for a while and then back to window. Have not seen that before.

On the positive side, the matches that I did get were different. Either a very balanced match, ending 6-8 or we were crushed 8-0. Previously I often saw matches ending 4-8, almost never 8-0.