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Matchmaking/Queue time
The average waiting time that I experience is 5 seconds as a Survivor and 3 seconds as a Killer..
The longest I've ever had to wait for a match is 10 seconds (Survivor) - 4 seconds (Killer).
I'm also matched with players within my rank's adjacency.
And finally, no laggy matches.
As I witness, the majority of players are struggling with these issues; so the question is: why not me, and how can the developers use this information to help spread the blessing?!
Thoughts?
PS: I only play 12AM+. (PS4)
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I hate you.
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Yep, cancelling and restarting is very effective!
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its good for me
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Dont know what is going on today, but I had wait times (before joining any lobby) with up to 3 minutes. And now I only have "Wait time unknown"...
And given the fact that once I join a Lobby (and this Lobby is full), everyone presses "Ready" as fast as possible, others also have to wait.
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3 minutes is a lot..
Just cancel the search and queue again. Very effective.
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If it's good on both Survivor and Killer, then we're both lucky!
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I've never seen it worse in the two years I've played. Currently on PC in the eastern US, usually play at different times between 5PM-10PM and on days off work I'll sometimes play mornings into afternoon. It's absolute hell right now. Survivor matches taking anywhere between 3-10 mins., majority of games loading with 3 survivors, at least one hard DC, getting a lobby with 300+ ping, or most often just mismatched ranks. Killer games are taking anywhere between 10-30 mins. to get and I usually just give up on it by then.
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I'm in the same boat with you on the times and location... Mine were like the OP mentioned above. However with the new system they are brutal compared to what it was.
Last night wasn't so bad as survivor.. I would guess I waited an average of 20 to 30 seconds for matches around 5:30 PM EST. I played about 6 matches.
I played one match as killer and waited about 3 minutes so I said ######### it at that point. 3 minutes compared to maybe a 10 second wait before.
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I'm sorry about that. But I hear you, and all the others. This game is too good and at the top of my list; so it's painful to want to play it but can't.
I sincerely hope they try and find a solution; and I do wish that everyone would no longer have any issue.
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My queue times are fairly quick aswell. Usually it takes longer for some pleb survivor to ready up than it takes to find a lobby (unless the lobby as bugged.... cough cough)
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@Yohan If we are back to canceling and starting match making to make it quicker again like we had to a few years ago... I don't know what to say to the Devs then. I done did that already with the ######### systems they had in the first year.
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Lucky you. Survivor doesn't take as long for me (up to 2 minutes mid day, but in the morning around 10 minutes) while killer takes... 30 minutes lol. I usually am able to watch a whole episode of something on Netflix.
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The new matchmaking was working well before that last update to resolve the high ping issues now it's up to unknown wait times while taking 10mins. Killers is not too bad 2mins max but they need to care take of it immediately.
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@yahon No it was bad in the beginning... things "worked".. but there would be nights where.. No one could play SWF at all... or very long wait times. I think there was a time you'd be lucky to get a match in 30 minutes.
Then the Devs finally finished what we call the old system... and it was great after that till now. It just wasn't great for everyone.
Now.. They have to fix what they told us was "edge" cases (two years later mind you).... So how many of these "edge" cases existed to justify a 5 to 10 second wait as killer to 3 minutes... or a 3 second lobby wait for survivor for a minute?
That is what is bothering me. Then you say.. cancel and restart the MM on your client... We had to do that before that old system came to be.. so we have to do it now with the new one?
I'm lost for words. I know there is a compromise that needs to be made, but asking me to make a compromise of 5 to 10 seconds killer lobby to 3 minutes.. is asking too much now. How do we go to what feels like an inferior system? Why do these "edge" cases ruin what we had?
If I went into a company that has 50 people and redesigned a system for them that would automate a big portion of their business. However in me automating and making the overall efficiency better... I make 10 employees work harder inorder to get that efficiency but the other 40's job is easier... How did I help those 10 other employees?... They may know hate their job because of what I did. Even though the overall efficiency is better, I screwed over 10 others to get it.
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I've experienced the same results: before, during, and after the update.
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Hmm. I see where you're coming from. Although, I didn't propose the idea of restarting the Matchmaking, as an alternative to a major solution by the Developers; nor was I justifying their incompetence. They definitely do owe the community some professionalism. However, re-queuing ourselves is the only available option to help speed the process.
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US central here. Solo takes 2-3 minutes to get a lobby, so does SWF, SWF tends to take longer. Killer is about 5 minutes. Not to mention the bugged lobbies and high pings make it take longer
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I get killer matches in 5 seconds, survivor takes me around 10 to 20 minutes with a SWF, I only play survivor SWF as for casual friend time, not toxic Jeff or David running around.
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That's a huge gap. Very interesting!
The Developers must find a way to make use of this information.
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It gets bad enough to upwards of 30 minutes so I'll play a KYF or we all reload DBD because of the wait times, and we'd even wait 30 minutes for one survivor to lobby dodge and then never get a new person, but I believe the getting 4 people has been fixed.
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You are from the lucky one i envy you but maybe one day we will be aquo.
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You know I've only done SWF once! It was when some strangers invited me to their party, and we didn't experience any issues, whether with queue time or connection wise.
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Is it bad that sometimes I mash the ready button because someone won't ready up already.. lol. I have zero patience. And if they need to fix their equipment.. just do it before finding a lobby. However, I'd understand, if they have a good reason for making everyone wait 30 seconds.
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You're allowed to envy me man. I can see your frustration.
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30 minutes and 1 game for me last night. my friends are refusing to play now as they don't want to waste an hour just to play 2 games.
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What about when you solo?
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@yohan I didn't test it as I was playing with others so we went on another rgame
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I see. Good luck then!
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@yohan Thanks
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Now the times vary, sometimes I wait 10 minutes, with a 4 man swf, but with a 1 man (or woman), a couple seconds, killer is an instant game.
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Yea I realized that Killer connects to a lobby in no more than 1 second. (At least for me).
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