Hi All-

• Find you your preferred selection of game mode
• Reduce the network latency between you and the server
• Reduce the waiting time it takes to find a battle
• Reduce the number of partially filled battles
• Reduce how often you join a battle already in progress

Why don't I get the game mode I selected?
You can now choose multiple game modes however this will not always gaurentee you get one of those modes. The selection is used in 2 ways, we first build groups of players who have similar preferences of game mode, region and ranking. The second step is to use everyone's preferences to perform a vote on which mode to play. We will be tuning how effectively this works over the coming days so you should see some improvement in how often you get your selected modes.

If you did matchmaking by gear it would have been simpler tbh

Basic vs basic for example

Just my 2 pennies

I have not played it yet but I can tell you for certain that I have players that do not like to play ambush. If you match making is putting them into such maps, they are going to be very unhappy. They need to be filters, not votes.

I have not played it yet but I can tell you for certain that I have players that do not like to play ambush. If you match making is putting them into such maps, they are going to be very unhappy. They need to be filters, not votes.

Any attempt to put me into Domination will equal me quitting match immediately, just an FYI. Broken game mode is broken. Not letting us select that we never want to get forced into it is bad.

Also: This is one of those things that should have been clear IN THE PATCH NOTES, CCP.

In this case there should be a couple more toggles.

Prefer faster queue OR prefer 'fairer queue'. One would sacrifice the priority of your selections to get you in a match ASAP, it may not be very fair for you, however. Fairer, would give your vote for match type a higher priority, but you may wait significantly longer to play.

The main point is, though, gentlemen is that you can't please everyone all the time. Fast AND fair is difficult to do for all folks.

Exactly, is this the real life?

I appreciate the new matchmaking, but I thought we were still going to get to, y'know, choose what we want to effing play.

Why is this still a thing? What does it look at all of your 30 possible fits to see what you'd fight with? Or your most popular fit? Or what your skills would allow? Are you then forced to only use basic? And then basic/STD suits or weapons too? What if you are a vehicle user, but you have basic suits and ADV vehicles? Can you only take ADV vehicles in?

Its not hard

Nothing over meta level 3, anything on your fit over meta level 3 is invalid in the match for basic vs basic

I said for example, so basics vs basic, adv vs adv, proto bs proto and basic/adv/proto is by meta level

How is it so hard to understand?

Queuing for the gamemodes I like and being randomly thrown in the gamemode I despise is terrible.

Do you guys even test these things before you give it to us?

Again, I reiterate the point I've been trying to get across for months now: CCP, you have to take this game offline in order to fully fix it. DUST514 has far too many problems with its core to be able to make progress towards the game we all want and expected with live updates. Live updates work perfectly to make a great game better, but take a below average game and dig its hole deeper. No matter how painful it would be in the short-term, taking DUST offline in order to fix it is the best long-term strategy.

Why don't I get the game mode I selected?
... We will be tuning how effectively this works over the coming days so you should see some improvement in how often you get your selected modes.

so what your saying is theres no more reason to skill into proto anything since you can just use basic forever.


what your proposing is not only technically difficult to obtain but terrible for the health of teh game as it pretty much negates the need to skill into anything, this has been discussed to death and has been agreed apon by nearly every single person to be a bad bad bad bad idea

If you did matchmaking by gear it would have been simpler tbh

Basic vs basic for example

Just my 2 pennies

Hard to test a big system like that unless they spend many engineer hours creating some sort of simulator. We'll just have to endure a few days of them tweaking the parameters while they dial it in. I'd rather provide live testing and tuning than waste engineering time that could be spent creating game content.

This wouldn't work - I have fittings ranging from militia to proto - and use them all depending on what I want. By your method, I would always be in matches against proto even when I wanted to run militia for a while.