I have spend a lot of time struggling in the lobby: signing up with xboxs live, signing out again, restarting the game, restarting my internet, my laptop, everything, just to find which setting works best to succesfully launch a ranked teamgame.
When I go into the queue there were a few common issues:
- I click find match and a loading screen would pop u which wouldnt go away
- I click find match and the timer didnt start. it was frozen at 0:00:00. This happened after I got a game invite by a opponent who wanted to team up. I click accept but I didnt automatically go to the lobby. so I click multiplayer, and now I’m stuck in a matchmaking lobby with 0:00:00 and a ghost version of that friend. (I assume he moved on and I was just waiting in a dead lobby)
- I click find match, the timer starts ticking down and suddenly the timer stopped and I have to start queuing again. No popup, no warning message, nothing.
- I click find match, I wait 5 minutes, then the game just closes
- I click find match wait a few minutes and finally got a match, hoorah!
Now I go into the match and there are a few things that happen:
- loading screen takes a somewhat long time. The game loads and… ’ you have been disconnected’
- I play the game for a while, all good and suddenly everything starts stuttering. Sometimes a complete freeze and then I already know what’s gonna happen…
2a) you have been disconnected
2b) the game desynced
2c) the game freezes and turns white when a popup ’ program not responding’ appears. I have to forcekill the program with task-manager - hoorah! no disconnects so far! ‘teammate1 has disconnected’… well we’re screwed
- hoorah! no disconnects so far! ‘enemy1 has disconnected’ … well that ruins the fun
- hoorah! nobody disconnects. Oh yea my Rating dropped from all those disconnects, so I’m stuck with some players far below my skill level. Oh what did you say? some experienced/advanced people (15++) teaming up can still match against me and my noob buddies? (<1400) sure. gimme another loss thank you very much
Today, I played 10 teamgames in the ranked matchmaking.
I won one, it was fairly imbalanced
I lost one, it was fairly imbalanced
I gave up on two because teammates disconnected
I didnt even get to play another 2 because the game would crash upon start
I disconnected from another 4
ThxDE
P.S. I’m terribly sorry for the teammates and opponents I have faced today which had their game ruined because I disconnected. I wish there was a way to prevent this. I have done everything in my power to limit micro-failures in my internet but a ~1second loss of signal is enough to cause a disconnect. I wish the servers would be more tolerant to these small drops, or atleast I hope for a way for a game to be automatically saved (or manually, like the case in the legacy version).