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[2020] Valiant tier or higher? No more fleet battles for you then


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The update has completely broken the multiplayer - I and many others have been unable to find a single fleet battle, and maybe 1 dogfight, since it was pushed out. What's more, it seems the only players being punished by this are the ones with the higher MMR.

Ground your way up to legend? Your reward is to never get a game again.

Also, when I've checked, there are only 5 or so concurrent fleet battles in the custom server so I doubt this can be the cause. I'm also not in Australia before you ask.

I know I posted to this effect yesterday, but Squadrons has become literally unplayable (i just want to find a frickin game!) and I've seen no acknowledgement of this game breaking bug from the Devs.

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almost 4 years ago - /u/tibermoon - Direct link

Thank you for your feedback. We made several changes to MM yesterday to improve match quality (i.e. fewer one-sided blowouts). The tradeoff is somewhat increased matchmaking times. The goal is certainly not to make it impossible for people on the outside of the bell curve to find matches, however.

We’re observing telemetry (and player feedback like yours) over this weekend to see where the pain points are, and then will make further adjustments to address it.

almost 4 years ago - /u/tibermoon - Direct link

Originally posted by TheNerfherder38

Yup. I hit Legend a few days ago and after waiting about 2 hours total trying to get into various fleet battles (between just saying ‘f**k it’ and trying out the new ships in practice mode), I’ve given up. I’ve played FB on this game almost every day since launch, and now I’m shut out.

What would you* say your average matchmaking wait time was before? And if you play Fleet Battles, what is your current rank? It would help with diagnosing the best way to adjust the formula.

  • “You” = Anyone reading this who’s at a high skill level and is struggling to matchmake this weekend but previously didn’t have trouble.
almost 4 years ago - /u/tibermoon - Direct link

Originally posted by miztaziggy

It used to be about 10 to 60 seconds for me solo. I'm currently galactic ace rank, but it was always the same no matter how high the rank from Hero up to Ace.

Duo used to be roughly the same. 3 stack used to be a little longer, up to 3 minutes. 4 and 5 stack could take 3 to 5 minutes.

Right now, solo is impossible. I've queued about 10 to 15 times, each time it's timed out after 10 mins. Tried a duo queue and that worked after 15 minutes, but the lobby crashed. Tried a 4 stack and that landed us in a game vs a 5 stack after 5 mins. The enemy team all good level, which is good, but our 'random' player was pretty poor. The enemy team were 2 legend, 2 valiant and 1 placement account, which looked to be an obvious smurf account. One of our guys in legend 2 lost over 60 points.

Got to say, me and some of my team mates I play with have just lost all motivation to play now. Not being salty about it, but we queue for a LONG time as a 4 stack, then get a game against the same 5 guys guys every time as they're the only ones queuing.

After all that, the guys on our team in legend and valiant lose over a day's worth of points in 2 matches. It's demoralising.

Thanks for the info, and sorry to hear that! We’ll get it sorted out ASAP.

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