Hello, I have searched around the forums and while there are lots of forum posts discussing HG, none seem to hit the topic I would like to discuss.
I have been an avid hourglass player for the pasted 2 years, the OCE servers have been great, awesome community with a good variety of skills, and predictable times when they are viable for good queue times.
Yes, due to the small pool of players, it would mean that, particularly in Solos, you would hit brand new players, and you would go up against the "Sweats", but the fact it matched with anyone seemed to make for slow, but decently acceptable queue times.
This update originally sounded like a breath of fresh air, the cross stamp match making had me imagining short queue times, just with a variety of ping outcomes.
But that is not what seems to have eventuated, I played consistently through the last Fight Nights, and have been coming and going a little since then.
The trend I have noticed since the update is that the queue times have pushed out dramatically, I am not matching with people outside of OCE and have not seen any "Bad ping" games at all. Instead I have almost exclusively been going up against people in my skill bracket.
While this isn't a bad thing, there is a very small player group who meet that requirement, and while I know other ships are diving, particularly over fight nights, the match making just wont connect. This has made the rate of fights, and the time spent in the queue unpleasantly long. For example, while writing this I have been queuing for over 30 minutes.
I have no idea what has been implemented in the back ground, but for OCE at-least it has really made the gold curse grind significantly slower, while not having the benefit of the "cross stamp" games. I am used to searching OPEN CREW and almost exclusively being matched into 200 ping boats within seconds, yet this is not happening. It currently feels like a more strict "SBMM" has been implemented across the board, expecting more boats to be available, but the OCE search just doesn't reach far enough for the extra boats.
It would be nice to revert back to the old search until a better solution is found.
Thanks for the time,
From TCGuardian.
