whenever i try to play competitive i just can’t find any matches… or do i have to have friends to join a match?
why can't i play competitive?
SiXtYnInE
(SiXtYnInE)
#2
I personally can’t say anything because I am not high enough level (lvl 6 ;-
but if I was I would believe if it takes a while stop the que for about 2 min then go into a que again.
doxjq
(doxjq)
#4
I can’t ever seem to find a game either. Even with 2-3 friends or by myself. I’ve single-handedly just never once played a competitive game of Dirty Bomb. I live in New Zealand and play on Aussie servers with a 40 ping, but ping 140 odd to Asia. Even to Asia I’ve never found a competitive game.
Mr-Penguin
(Mr-Penguin)
#5
What. The. Actual. F*ck. Is up. With your text.[/quote]
It’s apparently supposed to be “festive”.
hippie
(hippie)
#6
i know right? i have over 300 hours invested in this game but couldn’t play even 1 competitive
HunterAssassin5
(HunterAssassin5)
#7
someday, i am going to start a competitive search, then come back a long time later and take a screenshot of the amount of time i spent in queue.
Izzy
(Izzy)
#8
@Haise I am not sure anyone actually read his message. He does the same on every post, but you can’t read it without bleeding. Attention wh0re?
Ctrix
(Ctrix)
#9
I used to be able to get a competitive match in exactly 1 minute wait time. Used to play a game everyday for the Stopwatch daily bonus. Most games were pretty well balanced for me being at Gold 5
Then the devs changed the matchmaking, because Cobalt level players complained they would get matched with gold/silver tier players. Now matchmaking only matches within a narrow skill range, which means it takes forever for there to be enough players in queue at the same time. Yes for me as well, even though I’m at the tier where there should be lots of players.
Which means nobody botheres to queue anymore.
Which means matchmaking is super broken now. You won’t be able to get into a game unless the devs revert the changes.
Another case of “don’t listen to the vocal minority. People don’t know what they want”
Csquared
(Csquared)
#11
Competitive is pretty much just dead as a mode. Most of the high ranked players left because of the long queue times, making it nearly impossible for the remaining high ranked players to get balanced games. So you either get cobalts waiting an hour to not find a game, or you get cobalts matching up vs silvers and unrankeds which isn’t fun for anyone. The unrankeds swear off the mode forever since they just waited 20+ minutes only to face a stack of experienced players and get spawncamped in their first ever comp match. The high golds/cobalts then leave because waiting up to an hour only to possibly get a game, which isn’t even guaranteed to be somewhat balanced, is lame as fuck
If you really want to play the mode your best bet is to only try during primetime, especially during the weekends. Playing at weird times it’s unlikely you’ll be able to find a game at all and will just end up with a lot of time wasted
Shananuga
(Shananuga)
#12
Afaik comp is pretty much dead hence they are reworking it or something (look up stream notes from Faraleth)
Csquared sumemd up the problem and i can only agree
I was once gold 3 or something then lost 5 games consequently because of either cobalt stomps or blatant hackers or Leavers on my Team and then dropped to silver.
Since then i said fuck comp and am only playing some pubs to relieve stress. If you want some actual comp you would need to join the dirty cup community(steamgroup and TS i think) and enter community tournaments.
TheAcidpiss
(TheAcidpiss)
#13
they should do it like they did in halo back in the day, all the way from rank 1 to 50
all servers/modes should be ranked imo, because why not? everyone enjoys some even competition.
Then there should be something separate for the real competition, if you reach rank 40 you have an option for “competition mode”
idk, I just found halo’s system to be right?
player base has a big part to do with it to, but if every match was ranked it would make match making that more balanced I think.
And if your one of the people that just mess around and don’t care about stuff tryharding and all that jazz, your still going to get matched with like minded players anyway
Ctrix
(Ctrix)
#14
That’s the way Hearthstone is doing it, and honestly, there’s nothing wrong with it. If only they wouldn’t reset the ladder every month then you wouldn’t have all the pay2win decks at the bottom and the power balance would be perfect.
3N1GM4
(3N1GM4)
#15
[quote=“TheAcidpiss;121352”]they should do it like they did in halo back in the day, all the way from rank 1 to 50
all servers/modes should be ranked imo, because why not? everyone enjoys some even competition.
Then there should be something separate for the real competition, if you reach rank 40 you have an option for “competition mode”
idk, I just found halo’s system to be right?
player base has a big part to do with it to, but if every match was ranked it would make match making that more balanced I think.
And if your one of the people that just mess around and don’t care about stuff tryharding and all that jazz, your still going to get matched with like minded players anyway[/quote]
Absolutely agree. You ranked fast enough through that system and generally found very evenly matched games. You could party with random skill levels of your friends with out too much worry about getting stomped.
I’m getting pretty sick of people constantly asking for pub balance which is just comp lite and reviving comp mode.
Just make both ranked with matchmaking except one has a penalty for leaving and ff turned on. (a la “Hardcore” mode). If someone leaves a “pub” mm game, just stick a random in their place. I’m not sure about leavers in “comp” mode though.
Casual Match
Comp Match
Both are queued and ranked.