The new Play-While-You-Wait feature
The new feature added to 2v8 as a solution to killer queue times is not fixing the problem. From my understanding, long queue times are caused by a surplus of players, not a deficit. So why would there be a feature that encourages more killer players while also making the queue time for survivors worse?
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The feature is currently in the testing phase, unfortunately due to the game outage, it's going to be too early to say whether it helps at all.
It's not going to be a solution to killer queue times, what we're hoping is that it encourages people to play the Survivor role whilst they wait for a killer match, as the basic problem is that so many people want to play killers in the mode.
We don't anticipate that the survivor queue time will be heavily impacted given the almost instant survivor queues that have been in previous iterations of 2v8. This is still just a test though, we will need to collect all the data on things like queue times to have more idea of what's happening when this is being used.
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I'd say the survivor queue time is heavily impacted. I spent 20 minutes waiting for a match before I switched back to regular 1v4. Giving killer players the ability to join survivor queues has effectively doubled the amount of players waiting to get a game.
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given the outage has been affecting the queues and the issues initially with the Play While You Wait feature, which we have since resolved, we're not able to assess queue times unfortunately. We won't be able to do that until the outage is resolved and people can play normally again. Survivor queues have always been quick on 2v8, way less than a minute for the majority of servers - we're talking seconds here, so it's unlikely to impact that heavily…having more survivors playing is actually better for the all around queue times, without impacting the survivor queues heavily.
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I mean, she did just say that not only is the feature in the testing phase but that there was an outage affecting the game.
Not the best environment for a functional feature.
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I really like the system, the last time I tested it, I found a killer lobby in less than 5 minutes, great job!
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