What is it lately with the extreme waiting times in MM?
Serious, the last matches were found between 12 and 20+ mins… The 20+ mins waiting we actually disbanded the party. Mayb we should allow benefits through private matches thus having an alternative to the waiting game.
In the latest patch they narrowed down the skill difference range for premades. Obviously this was meant to avoid a premade stack facing 5 randoms with far worse ranks which in itself is a good thing, the problem here is the lack of players playing matchmaking.
I’m not entirely sure thats the case.
I’ve played about 6 matchmaking games and 2 of those crashed. After each crash there was a very lengthy wait. First one happened around 5:30cst, and there was about a 10-15 min wait. The second time was around 12:00-12:30am, after which no game was ever found.
I’m not sure if it was: my game, a/the matchmaking server crashed, a penalty for not rejoining the crashed game, etc. but the others times the wait time was very short, even shorter than before the patch, and for the most part, very evenly matched.
Except one where we ( 3 gold 4/3 ) were paird with a silver and unranked vs a 3-5 stack of golds and cobalts, but the game was still winnable if we didn’t have the two lesser players. So it wasn’t like a cobalt wrecking ball coming thorugh.
These games were joined as solo, duo, 3 stack, and 5 stack, so we pretty much tried each scenario and mm was very quick in all.
Just the crashing is horrible though.
Imagine how we feel as cobalts. It took us HOURS to get a match last night. Our old queues were about 15-17 minutes, and now we are lucky if ot pops before 45.
Yeah, I agree they had to do something to prevent cobalt vs unranked, or cobalt vs silver. But I am not going to sit in the queue for an hour just to have one match ;( (I actually play with Opicron and we are cobalt/ gold mix)
They will hopefully little bit widen the boundaries, so we can have at least some matches 
(we don’t mind playing vs low gold, or high ranked cobalts at all, just no silver, unranked guys)
Now it’s like going back to WOLF:ET and CS:GO, I am a normal working person, and I don’t really want to spend my evening waiting for 3 hours, playing 1 hour :D)
The problem is, golds that get matched with silvers and unranked vs gold / cobalts. Thats not fair to anyone.
So… you’re not a fan of execution mode?
After they balance it they should pull everyone to gold 5 who is above it. This way the pool is larger and it will be a true apples to apples comparison. Right now you have guys who are top ranked who dont deserve it because of team stacking (not calling anyone in this thread out).
Having to wait over 20minutes to disband in the end is not acceptable, sorry.
Also waiting at least 5 minutes by default and then being forfeited kills any playtime/waiting ratio.
Not fond of the 2 changes combined. REALLY NOT FOND OF IT.
You saying I don’t deserve my Cobalt 1?! FIGHT ME OVER IT BRUH
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no no. Everyone in this thread or reading this comment deserves it. Its everyone else that doesnt 