Any Significant Updates On Hourglass Matchmaking?

  • USAxARMYSTRONG
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    Constantly not "finding" any opponents for the last 2 hours in HG. I've been put back at an outpost roughly 23x now trying to fight in HG. Are there any updates on this matter? This is making all of the HG grinding during Double Gold and Glory not worth it again, just like community weekend recently.

    When there isn't a community week or Double Gold and Glory, I have 0 issues matchmaking. When Double Gold and Glory is here, all the issues come out of nowhere making it hard to enjoy Sea of Thieves during these "special" 2x Glory events

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  • USAxARMYSTRONG
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    So uh, yeah. This game broke. Big ol broke. Got a friend that literally lives with me in the same house, same WiFi, same driveway, same street, same address, same everything..... and we both solo queue to match each other at the same exact time but still cannot find an opponent to fight in HG. Fix this. Gives me a migraine trying to grind HG.

  • BurnBacon
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    Have you tried simply…sailing the map and attacking ships. Without use of hourglass.

  • TheBlackBellamy
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    @usaxarmystrong said:

    ... Gives me a migraine trying to grind HG.

    @burnbacon said:

    Have you tried simply…sailing the map and attacking ships. Without use of hourglass.

    Seems like an inefficient way to get HG rep, imo.

    Helpful as always, bacon.

  • Ghostfire1981
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    This seems to be a very area/time specific problem. I/we play in Europe (Finland), mostly during evenings. No problems finding opponents, we find mostly other europeans here, mainly from the bigger countries (Spain, France, Germany, Poland, GB) but also a lot of scandinavian people.

  • WolfManbush
    Champion

    I wish they opened up HG for fighting anyone around the world in season 12

    at least as an option in settings.

    With new weapons and random adventure being "eh" for encounters/attacks/pvp it creates a scenario where HG could see quite a bump in season 12.

    New weapons and not fighting the same people over and over (while getting quicker matches) would be big opportunity for the content.

  • Mr Woods1990
    Seafarer

    There is plenty of things I think can be done to refresh HG

    • An indicator to say how many ships in your region are currently aligned
    • Approximate position in queue
      -Shrinking circles

    But before all that getting the “Approximate” queue time to actually be approximate….

    What is the current % of participation in HG? - Rare must know if they have stats like how many worms were eaten 😂

    I have 60 levels to go before I have both curses and quite honestly cannot wait to never play HG again for a long, long time.

  • Capt Greldik
    Master

    @usaxarmystrong said in Any Significant Updates On Hourglass Matchmaking?:

    Constantly not "finding" any opponents for the last 2 hours in HG. I've been put back at an outpost roughly 23x now trying to fight in HG. Are there any updates on this matter? This is making all of the HG grinding during Double Gold and Glory not worth it again, just like community weekend recently.

    When there isn't a community week or Double Gold and Glory, I have 0 issues matchmaking. When Double Gold and Glory is here, all the issues come out of nowhere making it hard to enjoy Sea of Thieves during these "special" 2x Glory events

    I’ve asked you this before, but where are you trying to play from? The NA queue never takes that long, not even off hours… unless you’re queueing a galley at 2am, but solo sloop at any time of day never takes anything close to 2 hours, NA.

    With your name I could see you being in a number of locations, that’s one of the reasons I ask. But yea, with your friend queueing and still no match starting, it sounds a little broken.

    That said I’ve never had a problem queuing NA.

  • StoKids3
    Ship Mate

    Might be because everyone is diving and no one is defending therefore no matches can be made

  • Capt Greldik
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    @stokids3 said in Any Significant Updates On Hourglass Matchmaking?:

    Might be because everyone is diving and no one is defending therefore no matches can be made

    That’s not how it works, dude. When you’re in queue/diving you typically match vs someone who is also in queue/diving. “Invading” someone is fairly infrequent because most people just queue/dive rather than “defend”.

  • Wetzelicious
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    @burnbacon said in Any Significant Updates On Hourglass Matchmaking?:

    Have you tried simply…sailing the map and attacking ships. Without use of hourglass.

    I’ve seen the same small minded comment from you in multiple HG threads. Tell me, Bud, when you play good ole adventure mode and sink ships, do you progress you HG faction? Don’t think to hard because the answer is no. You probably think you are clever making those single brain cell posts.

  • VaughnSilver
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    Grinded out 90 Levels today and it was awful. Crashes every other dive, ship parts being disabled, crashing when rising up to a battle and getting your ship hard lock stuck under the map and finally;
    crashes after crashes that lead into crashes on loading screens and finally when you get in you get a normal crash you can rejoin from to see if you sailed out of the zone yet.

    If I had to guess I crashed 50 to 60 times in a 10 hour session.
    I even have a crash so hard it disabled my HDMI Cable.

  • StoKids3
    Ship Mate

    @capt-greldik ah ok, wasn't aware of that. Thanks for clarifying!

  • Ghutar
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    @ghostfire1981 it's too random to be area problem. Im from EU and I can still get up to 6 "nooponents".

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