Dev Update: Improved Quick Join


(Chris Mullins) #1

Hey all!

Quick Join is getting some upgrades, but that means…

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Matchmaking!
(Nail) #2

min/max and objective back ! thanks


(Violator) #3

EU (non-Russian) objective mode servers?


(Mustang) #4

Confirmed! :penguin:


(alphabeta) #5

QuickJoin put me on a Moscow Russia server with a 260 ping from Los Angeles. This is improvement?

Oh and to make it worse I had the red server icon the entire match, while I stuttered and froze my way thru the game.

The icing on the cake was that all their names were in Cyrillic so I couldn’t even “encourage” the Level 4 noobs to actually turn around and see the player who was shooting them in the *ss. Oh well!


(DarkangelUK) #6

[QUOTE=alphabeta;574010]QuickJoin put me on a Moscow Russia server with a 260 ping from Los Angeles. This is improvement?

Oh and to make it worse I had the red server icon the entire match, while I stuttered and froze my way thru the game.

The icing on the cake was that all their names were in Cyrillic so I couldn’t even “encourage” the Level 4 noobs to actually turn around and see the player who was shooting them in the *ss. Oh well![/QUOTE]

Smooth reply on reddit

There’s a bug with the current Quick Join implementation which means full region detection isn’t actually working, so it’s falling back to the ‘backup system’ which usually does the job but in some cases can provide the player with a server on another region.

This is because the backup system only fetches a random list of 30 servers (in the background) before pinging them, getting their info and finding the best one. Since the list is random, there’s a slim chance that all the servers returned to you are in other regions.

The region detection system will return a list of 30 servers only within nearby regions (averaging 80ms or less) and then choose the best one to connect to. Not only will this result in better pings, but it will also mean the ‘best server’ will usually be one closer to your skill level as well. We’re aiming to rolling out this fix next week.


(ASD) #7

my 2 cents:

the DB (Dirty Balance) is now fixed … there is no balance at all! :frowning:

congraty… you destroyed it


(alphabeta) #8

Thank you for clearing that up! Cheers mate!


(Violator) #9

Also confirmed - joyous day :smiley: Was still full of loads of players with 200+ ping so had a warpin’ ole time :slight_smile:


(NHLfan) #10

Can you please explain the meaning of “Improved” in “Improved Quick Join”?

CMM wasn’t perfect, but at least it wasn’t worse than Quick Join is right now.
also another question: Is there, or will there be, another way to play with friends on the same server in the same team? (probably not)


(ASD) #11

for some reason alot of obviously new players are here… wich is good but why does the game allways putt all new players in one team and pair them with the otherteam full of level 80+++
this result in alot of leaving befor end of the game and I dont realy think this will make this game atractive for new players!

also this new players are often very disoriented in the maps and dont know the abilitys of the players… I saw 4 times a sparcs helping other players up instead of reviving them!

so there are about 12 tasks:

  1. bring back the bad balance from matchmaking - better bad then non balance!
  2. same like 1
  3. hmmm like 2!
  4. you got it? - same like 1-3
  5. some random **** pointing to 1
  6. some random **** pointing to 3
  7. some random **** pointing to 2
  8. some random **** pointing to 7
  9. some random **** pointing to 3
  10. some random **** pointing to 4
  11. make a guess! ----- yes bring back bad balance!
  12. make some tutorial video/playable for new players

(Nail) #12

seems you missed the announcement about today’s update