Tried the Matchmaking again today .... tossed first into an in progress game but it was at least the type of game I wanted. Next I got multiple Scotty messages, and then finally a match, ugh! not the kind I wanted. This process continued with me being put into the type match I prefer only about one in seven attempts. So I gave up public contracts and switched to FW.



Faction warfare matches went well, I am enjoying the new buildings and maps. Additionally my daughter who is fresh out of the rookie academy was able to deploy with our squad in FW but not in public contracts.

Second day was not quite so horrible as the first, however I would hate to think I am isolated to FW to consistently get the matches I want and a squad of my own choosing.

I'm not sure if you all are playing the same game. Currently matchmaking is STILL broken. Squads do not all get put into the same match, games are starting with clone reserves depleted, and we LOST content with this release.

CCP - Please revert changes. Accept that this deployment was not properly tested.

After my yesterday's post that was full of praise for the battle finder fix, I now have to start whining. I don't know what (if anything) you changed today with battle finder, but I got some very annoying crap to report.

The "searching for battle" phase now takes much longer than yesterday (on average). I had some fights where I waited longer than a minute to start the "waiting for deployment" phase. But the most annoying part is matchmaking itself. In one fight, It was 2 on one side and seven on the other (guess which side I was in), and it stayed that way for the entire match. The other fight, it was 7 of us against literally NOONE. Again, for the entire match! I mean, c'mon!

I will have a look into this, it should not be possible to be joining the incorrect game modes. Can you maybe try toggling all of your options off, close the options window, reopen the window and pick them again? See if that puts you in the right battle type.

Also when you were playing public contracts were you in a squad? If so, were you the squad leader or following a different squad leader into battle?

Whilst I have not played today, the matches I was in yesterday were all reasonably close. Much more enjoyable.

Only issue is that Scotty has an issue when first selecting a FW battle, but I just select it again and we ate deploying within 10 seconds with 12-16 on each side for most games (Australian playing in Euro server-have not tried the US, Asia or oceanic servers yet)

Overall very happy with what has been done Nullabor. Thank you.

Whilst I have not played today, the matches I was in yesterday were all reasonably close. Much more enjoyable.

Only issue is that Scotty has an issue when first selecting a FW battle, but I just select it again and we ate deploying within 10 seconds with 12-16 on each side for most games (Australian playing in Euro server-have not tried the US, Asia or oceanic servers yet)

Overall very happy with what has been done Nullabor. Thank you.

Ive had the exact opposite experience with the matchmaking. I have yet to see even in youtube a balanced 1.4 match. Every single one i have seen or been in has one side pub stomping the other. Reading the patch notes I was excited for matchmaking cause i hoped pub stomping would stop but its only worse cause now every match is a pubstomp.

Ive had the exact opposite experience with the matchmaking. I have yet to see even in youtube a balanced 1.4 match. Every single one i have seen or been in has one side pub stomping the other. Reading the patch notes I was excited for matchmaking cause i hoped pub stomping would stop but its only worse cause now every match is a pubstomp.

I just wanted to say the matchmaking we have now is fubar. Went an entire match of dom with 4 people on one team and 2 on the other and another match with 16 people on one team and 6 on the other. Still getting matches with stacked squads on one side vs teams of randoms. Can't believe I'm typing this but I prefer the way it was before 1.4.

Edit. Oh, and this "voting" thing you got going on. Horrid idea, If I want to play domination, I WANT TO PLAY DOMINATION NOT AMBUSH; and if I want to play ambush, I WANT TO PLAY AMBUSH NOT GET PUT IN SKIRMISH.

Edit 2: Honestly CCP I know it's your game and most of us are playing it for free but it might be a good thing to run these brilliant idea by your player base before you implement them. It'll save you time and hassle.

Hi All-

Just want to write down a few notes about what we changed in 1.4 in relation to joining a battle and explain some of the questions you might have. So in 1.4 alongside a new battle finder we have rewritten the matchmaking system, that is the logic that decides what battle you join and who you are playing with. There are a number of things that we are trying to optimize in this step, for example:

• Find you your preferred selection of game mode
• Reduce the network latency between you and the server
• Match you against similarly skilled players
• 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

And now on with some questions:

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.

We have heard your feedback on this and have adjusted the matching so that game mode is a hard requirement. You can still pick multiple game modes and this will get you into battle quicker.

The teams are not balanced / full
This is a known issue, we are working on a fix right now.

With some exceptions during low PCU times this should now be working much better. We will continue to work on this though, particular with balancing squads in battles.

Matchmaking is taking too long? / Why do I get some message about a guy called Scotty?
This is a big new system with a lot of parameters that need careful tweaking. We are aware of a couple of issues already and are working on fixing them in the coming days. We will also be carefully monitoring the health of the matchmaking queues including waiting times and how balanced the battles are, then adjusting settings accordingly. For now, if you get a Scotty message just click join again.

I have a developer blog in the works covering a lot of these changes in more detail which we will post once things have stabilized and we have some time to produce pretty graphs and such. If you have any questions or feedback please reply to this thread.

Thanks for your patience and I hope you enjoy the rest of Uprising 1.4.

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?