Cross stamp matchmaking has made the HG mode unplayable

  • TAJLN
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    It's a good idea in theory, however a total disaster in practice.

    The problem:

    • When encountering cheaters before, you had the option to switch the region (there are 3 different regions in Europe for example). This is now no longer possible. Only 1 cheater ship of a certain type is needed to fully cover and clear the entire queue from all 3 regions. Its no longer possible to avoid this, unless VPN-ing to the next closest region in North America, play on high ping. If there is another cheater ship there you can just stop playing as you will keep matching them no matter where you go. At certains times of the day, its not possible to get even 1 fight in.

    The solution:

    • Disable or make an option to opt out of cross region matchmaking. Its a good idea in a perfect world where people aren't cheating but we live in reality.
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  • Metal Ravage
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    Imo, the cross stamp matchmaking was introduced to lower the waiting time during HG and it is working in that aspect.

    In any event if you think someone has violated the Code of Conduct, just record and report.

  • BurnBacon
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    Oooh the players got what they wanted. “Less wait times” but at what cost?

    Even if the option to turn it off. Won’t fix the cheat problem.

  • TAJLN
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    @metal-ravage I don't think you're aware of the current situation. While reporting someone might get them banned within the next week, all of those are new accounts. Sea of Thieves is included in the Xbox Game pass which costs 1€ for the first 14 days and cheaters take advantage of this. It takes 5 minutes to create a new account, you can't ban them fast enough. Chainging the region was the only way to avoid them until now. We've gone from "waiting longer for a game" to "getting matched to the same cheater boat over and over". It has made the situation worse to the point where HG is no longer playable if there isn't anyone else that the game will prefer to match you with besides the cheater boat.

    Another possible solution would be, as it was previously suggested to make some pve requirements before you could HG queue. I think that would reduce the amount of hg cheaters significantly

  • TAJLN
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    @burnbacon Personally I prefer to wait longer and have more choice in where I'm queuing. The cheat problem is a cat and mouse game, things get patched, new things are discovered. I don't believe they'll be able to fully rectify this before the game reaches its end of life. Having separate regions significantly improved the quality of gameplay as you have 3 separate pools instead of 1 (or 2 if you count NA) to try and avoid them

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