I don't know what is going on with the matchmaking servers with parties at the moment. A long long wait for rubbish matchmaking with a Yanks, Spaniards et al is not my idea of fun. Hopefully they will get rebooted after the break or something.
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It's been like this for weeks.
The problem is that it's trying to find games for a party with space for 5-6 people, which for some reason or another it's having a hard time with, so it carries on searching up until <150ms and only THEN does it find people to join you instead. This is then made even harder when people have moderate/strict NAT in either your group or in the lobby it could have matched you up with.
I wouldn't even begin thinking of backing out until it gets past the <150ms point because the majority of the time it won't find a game until it's past that point and backing out before then is just restarting the process all over again.
The problem is that it's trying to find games for a party with space for 5-6 people, which for some reason or another it's having a hard time with, so it carries on searching up until <150ms and only THEN does it find people to join you instead. This is then made even harder when people have moderate/strict NAT in either your group or in the lobby it could have matched you up with.
I wouldn't even begin thinking of backing out until it gets past the <150ms point because the majority of the time it won't find a game until it's past that point and backing out before then is just restarting the process all over again.
Agree on the Type 95 with rapid fire, I do use the silencer on it but it does shorten its 3 bullet kill range. FMG9's are also killer guns, especially when used akimbo. a lot of people use the ump45 but I think the MP7 SMG is a lot better.
To me it isn't just when in a party, playing some FFA earlier was getting matched up to people all over Europe. TDM with randoms was better at picking all UK based players but wasn't perfect still, you would think it would try to match players who have the best connection i.e. UK with UK, Spain with Spain, USA with USA etc.
To me it isn't just when in a party, playing some FFA earlier was getting matched up to people all over Europe. TDM with randoms was better at picking all UK based players but wasn't perfect still, you would think it would try to match players who have the best connection i.e. UK with UK, Spain with Spain, USA with USA etc.
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that's what it does try to do, the thing is though, the chances of 2 large parties within the UK hitting the search button at the exact same time is low, unless your on at a "peak time".
by the time you hit search the process has already started and if another party hits search 2 seconds later you have missed each other.
this problem could be resolved by dedicated servers, but i doubt that will ever happen as the current method is far cheaper.
We are playing peak time and sitting there for minutes at a time.
Matchmaking was better on the launch code they've loosened the region lock so players from smaller countries can ruin the games of the wider populace and now it also has a knock on effect of mixing bigger regions unnecessarily.
It's all there you just have to put it together. BlindEye Pro, Quickdraw Pro, Trophy System, Stinger and maybe an Assault Rifle with a Heartbeat Monitor to assess the area. Spawn slap out the Trophy double quick and fire away. Having a lethal you can kill yourself with also helps if no one else wants to muck in or bank a SAM Turret at the start of the game then switch class. You can also hold back a Predator.
Matchmaking was better on the launch code they've loosened the region lock so players from smaller countries can ruin the games of the wider populace and now it also has a knock on effect of mixing bigger regions unnecessarily.
It's all there you just have to put it together. BlindEye Pro, Quickdraw Pro, Trophy System, Stinger and maybe an Assault Rifle with a Heartbeat Monitor to assess the area. Spawn slap out the Trophy double quick and fire away. Having a lethal you can kill yourself with also helps if no one else wants to muck in or bank a SAM Turret at the start of the game then switch class. You can also hold back a Predator.
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Type 95 with Rapid Fire + Silencer
He wanted a noob gun equivalent UMP or PP90M1 with Rapid Fire
Has anyone else noticed the spawns going a bit random after a long host migration? I've noticed some unusual spawning possibly due to them getting respawned in an area already occupied by a players which haven't retaken their places yet.
As finite says below really, I see your point if you are instantly matched with people then, as you said, it would be unlikely that you are matched against people in the same country. However when you sit there for a couple of minutes and only a couple of randoms join in that time something is wrong. Usually I have noticed, at that point it merges lobbys and you end up with people from across Europe. I do wonder whether it is to do with the party - in that the matchmaking process is avoiding (or at least trying to aviod) putting people in who are lower levels due to the collective levels of the party.
When the patch came out that unlocked the regions I read, and saw a youtube commentary on the new patch. Both said the the region lock wouldn't effect a lot of people as the region locks was only effecting a few countries. It might be possible that in the patch they further relaxed the normal matchmaking regional preferences. It would be interesting to know, though I didn't pay attention to the players country at the beginning so don't really know.
jesus wept
its nearly 2:30 into that video before anybody actually hits him. The first 3 he runs straight up to, and none of them seem to be able to react to him or even get a shot off. The next coupe are looking the other way, then he comes across another pair who see him, but again can't even seem to get a single hit on him. Then finally, at about gun kill number 10 he walks through a door and finally a hit registers, but of course he gets the kill anyway.
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He's also playing against no-prestige noobs so I guess it was recorded a while ago when the game was relatively new.
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The opening sums it up really he lights himself up throwing a Semtex hangs around a bit then lets off a few rounds directly below, saunters up to the roof and shoots them in a bad order giving the player on his left flank nearly 300ms to just pull the damn trigger and turn slightly.
Yes i noticed this yesterday.
I was stood in a corner recovering and reloading, when it went fining a new host. It can back and there was someone on the other team stood right in front of me, at first it thought it was a team mate i had to double take.
This was playing on jungle near the gas tanker.