Seriously, what's wrong with matchmaking???

@axecaliburtv said in Seriously, what's wrong with matchmaking???:

not saying your complaints are invalid, but at least you got to play three matches...

I wish this didn't make me laugh as hard as it did.

Region based. Try open crew as it will group you outside your region or get a VPN.

@mouse-n-keybord

You think no one outside of NAE has the curse yet or something?

@lordqulex said in Seriously, what's wrong with matchmaking???:

@mouse-n-keybord

You think no one outside of NAE has the curse yet or something?

I think region plays only a part. If you're sitting 30+ minutes constantly I'd suggest another region to widen your player pool in finding a game. For example your pool may say an estimated time of 10 minutes or more but you can try an open crew that puts you into another region for faster queues.

If NAE is anything like west then it dies out around this time and picks back up at about 11 pm my time. I'm already 125 on Servants and 80 on guardians meanwhile giving away over 600+ wins while getting my first curse.

@mouse-n-keybord said in Seriously, what's wrong with matchmaking???:

@lordqulex said in Seriously, what's wrong with matchmaking???:

@mouse-n-keybord

You think no one outside of NAE has the curse yet or something?

I think region plays only a part. If you're sitting 30+ minutes constantly I'd suggest another region to widen your player pool in finding a game. For example your pool may say an estimated time of 10 minutes or more but you can try an open crew that puts you into another region for faster queues.

If NAE is anything like west then it dies out around this time and picks back up at about 11 pm my time. I'm already 125 on Servants and 80 on guardians meanwhile giving away over 600+ wins while getting my first curse.

Out of morbid curiosity, what ship size did you most use?

@bronzeinquiztor

Those are the worst. That's one of the reasons I don't go out of my way to overload on supplies with crews. We either waste money buying everything and then die to a crew full of cursed pirates, or the battle will last an hour as two evenly matched crews reset dozens of times.

If the battle lasts more than like 10 minutes, I just let them sink me. (Partially also in hopes of it lowering my MMR and getting more battles in.)

@lordqulex said in Seriously, what's wrong with matchmaking???:

@mouse-n-keybord said in Seriously, what's wrong with matchmaking???:

@lordqulex said in Seriously, what's wrong with matchmaking???:

@mouse-n-keybord

You think no one outside of NAE has the curse yet or something?

I think region plays only a part. If you're sitting 30+ minutes constantly I'd suggest another region to widen your player pool in finding a game. For example your pool may say an estimated time of 10 minutes or more but you can try an open crew that puts you into another region for faster queues.

If NAE is anything like west then it dies out around this time and picks back up at about 11 pm my time. I'm already 125 on Servants and 80 on guardians meanwhile giving away over 600+ wins while getting my first curse.

Out of morbid curiosity, what ship size did you most use?

I used a brig. Faster sinks and resets cause sometimes solo sloopers ran and waste time. People are complaining about queue times and some even don't belive me but I have an entire post documenting it practically.

Heck my newest method is being ran through my phones browser after finding out that cloud gaming works flawlessly and with my Xbox controller.

Either way the curses are not that difficult to earn with an average of 100 hours give or take depending on queue times. Open crew can be a headache but can be a breath of fresh air when you are without your crew and you can win some games plus it might put you in a better region.

Player with 2k hours and TSD here. I only know how to cannon well, a little over average. EDIT: I play only sloops. Sometimes solo-sloop.

Im only rank 16 in the grind for Athena curse, and 11 for Skeleton.

As of right now, i managed to reach 4 win streak once by tooth and nail against people who already have the curse unlocked. Had to fight, and lost against NAL sails on my third fight. Getting matched against players who not only double gun properly, but are skilled enough to farm me by hijacking the ship and placing it by the borders as they spawn camp me as they're taking supplies. Had to fight a cannoneer who landed every single long range cannon, with chainshots at almost max distance too.

How is this fair, fun or engaging?

@elhant3154 said in Seriously, what's wrong with matchmaking???:

Player with 2k hours and TSD here. I only know how to cannon well, a little over average. EDIT: I play only sloops. Sometimes solo-sloop.

Im only rank 16 in the grind for Athena curse, and 11 for Skeleton.

As of right now, i managed to reach 4 win streak once by tooth and nail against people who already have the curse unlocked. Had to fight, and lost against NAL sails on my third fight. Getting matched against players who not only double gun properly, but are skilled enough to farm me by hijacking the ship and placing it by the borders as they spawn camp me as they're taking supplies. Had to fight a cannoneer who landed every single long range cannon, with chainshots at almost max distance too.

How is this fair, fun or engaging?

I empathize man. I'm not going to sit here and tell you that I'm the GOAT at pvp, but I first set sail during the Fate OTD Content Update and I believe Arena was already toxic/broken by then so I got a few levels and then just quit because it bored me. I honestly feel the only people who are having fun right now are the LSD/TSD crowd that roll in and stomp any and everyone they play against. I don't mind losing, but we're talking about an overwhelming majority of players not being able to even achieve Champion level not even once. This is BAAAAAAAD.

@nitroxien said in Seriously, what's wrong with matchmaking???:

Yeah I don't know how but Rare messed this up bad. I sat in queue for 30 minutes on brig yesterday and just said I am done and went to play another game for the night. These current queue times are genuinely worse than arenas... And that game mode needed 4 ships to get started lol.

One of the funny things to me is how Streamers have started naming their channel "All I want for xmas is PVP" or "Watch me sit in queue". It's so bad it's becoming a community meme, or has been and I'm late to the party.

@chip-hazard8275 said in Seriously, what's wrong with matchmaking???:

@lordqulex that's because no one wants to play the new mode either because of the supplies, the matchmaking and the runners. the same thing will happen as arena only 1% of the players will want to continue playing

I'm not complaining about that. If the mega-sweats get their own pvp mode and it keeps their toxicity off the PVE(VP)ers that's fine by me. The challenge is locking the curses 100% (exaggerating I know) of the community wants behind a mode 1% of the community likes is simply convoluted seppuku. As I said above, people are leaving the game for this nonsense.

@grimhx said in Seriously, what's wrong with matchmaking???:

Out of curiosity me and my friends decided to see how long we could sit in queue last night. We made it to 4.5 hours without a match in NA Central region. The matchmaking is completely broken for most people to the point it's unplayable. Since the release of Season 8, I have only managed to get 12 fights. 8am-8pm are peak hours in our experience. My brother managed to get a match or two from 8pm to 12am. Outside of those windows, it's impossible to get a match. Rare really needs to rework how this matchmaking works

Can I ask what is your guys play time, current rep levels and W/L ratio? What have been your estimated times? I find it fascinating to hear these kinds of stats from Central.

But in regards to your queue ..it's bugged. You need a new boat/server most likely and you'll get a match quicker that way.

@bavariabull It's not even based on wins. I have like 13 wins and I'm playing against crews with the curse...