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Fix the waiting times

NeonAlien
NeonAlien Member Posts: 328
in General Discussions

The lobby wait times on ps4 as survivor are still ridicously long. Solo and SWF. Not even the event changed this and it's clear that the Problem is not a lack of players. How are we supposed to enjoy the game when we need to wait half an hour for 1 lobby and possibly get dodged anyway? Please fix this already, it's time.

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  • Master
    Master Member Posts: 10,200

    Sucks when nobody wants to play killer

    How can this be fixed? Mhm.....

  • Dokta_Carter
    Dokta_Carter Member Posts: 614
    NeonAlien said:

    The lobby wait times on ps4 as survivor are still ridicously long. Solo and SWF. Not even the event changed this and it's clear that the Problem is not a lack of players. How are we supposed to enjoy the game when we need to wait half an hour for 1 lobby and possibly get dodged anyway? Please fix this already, it's time.

    Apparently the killer to 4 survivor ratio is off balence or something. This event is more survivor sided sobpeople qill likely play survivor way more
  • tanya3489
    tanya3489 Member Posts: 3
    edited January 2019
    Same here. I'm also really sick of finally joining a match then the killer quits immediately and you lose your offering. I've lost enough cakes and streamers this way that I should be refunded these offerings.
  • DemonDaddy
    DemonDaddy Member Posts: 4,167
    Not to be smug or anything, but I have to agree that @Master has a point. Long wait is a result of not enough killers opening lobbies, at least that would be the most apparent cause. Survivors have the opportunity to earn points without interruption while killer has to close a chase everytime. Not to big a leap to assume which side is over inflated for the event.
  • Blueberry
    Blueberry Member Posts: 13,671
    edited January 2019

    Like others have said it's because they didn't balance the sides properly..again. Survivor side is free points with basically no extra work. While killers have to waste extra time that they already do not have to go and find the lanterns after a hook and smash them. Halloween all over again.

  • NeonAlien
    NeonAlien Member Posts: 328

    @DemonDaddy said:
    Not to be smug or anything, but I have to agree that @Master has a point. Long wait is a result of not enough killers opening lobbies, at least that would be the most apparent cause. Survivors have the opportunity to earn points without interruption while killer has to close a chase everytime. Not to big a leap to assume which side is over inflated for the event.

    That may be true to an extent, of course. I just don't care for the passive aggressive tone, you kow.
    But somehow, the waiting times can vary a lot - like on solo, it's between under 1 minute (sometimes) to mostly over 5-10 minutes, in rare cases even more. SWF wait times can be over 30 minutes - it doesn't make much sense that they're are generally so much longer as SWF. Thus, I also suspect some issues with the matchmaking in general.
    On that note, the wait times didn't change at all for me from pre-event to event. It's exactly the same (mostly longer that it should be). But I can see that the event may be rather survivor-sided in terms of event-pesos so yeah, that is taken into account.

  • Master
    Master Member Posts: 10,200

    @NeonAlien said:

    @DemonDaddy said:
    Not to be smug or anything, but I have to agree that @Master has a point. Long wait is a result of not enough killers opening lobbies, at least that would be the most apparent cause. Survivors have the opportunity to earn points without interruption while killer has to close a chase everytime. Not to big a leap to assume which side is over inflated for the event.

    That may be true to an extent, of course. I just don't care for the passive aggressive tone, you kow.
    But somehow, the waiting times can vary a lot - like on solo, it's between under 1 minute (sometimes) to mostly over 5-10 minutes, in rare cases even more. SWF wait times can be over 30 minutes - it doesn't make much sense that they're are generally so much longer as SWF. Thus, I also suspect some issues with the matchmaking in general.
    On that note, the wait times didn't change at all for me from pre-event to event. It's exactly the same (mostly longer that it should be). But I can see that the event may be rather survivor-sided in terms of event-pesos so yeah, that is taken into account.

    It totally makes sense that SWF take longer too queue, solo queue survivors should be prioritized

  • Kathpatty
    Kathpatty Member Posts: 19

    PS4 wait times are 30mins + I had to quit playing with double blood points not nice

    why can we not play .


    turned it off and returned one hour later to play one game and then could not get another