Make lobbies great

[TenuousFerret23]

GAME INFORMATION

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• GAME BUILD #: 47820
• GAME PLATFORM: Steam
• OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10

ISSUE EXPERIENCED

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The lobby system is excruciatingly painful to use. It takes up to 1 minute to load the list of available lobbies. A quarter of these lobbies are bugged and don’t exist so we get error messages when we try to join them and we have to reload the entire list again. The list doesn’t update automatically, we need to refresh it every 5 seconds to see which lobby is actually available so that we don’t get an error, and it takes again several dozens of seconds to reload. It’s just a lot of little things which add up to a really unpleasant experience.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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• 100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Go in multiplayer lobbies

EXPECTED RESULT

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The lobby list is supposed to take less time to load than 10 seconds.
The lobbies displayed are supposed to be existing.
The lobby list is supposed to be able to contain more than a maximum of 100 lobbies.
The lobby list is supposed to display the information in real time.

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[WoodsierCorn696]

@TenuousFerret23

The lobby list is supposed to take less time to load than 10 seconds.
The lobbies displayed are supposed to be existing.

These bugs are already reported in another thread, especially the non existing lobby part.

Lobby browser bugged

Lobby browser bugged, game lobbies that are old still show up in the lobby browser even after several hours. Another bug is lobbies have space but the lobby browser keeps saying it’s full. Even though aoe2.net and even refreshing the lobby browser still shows it’s not full.

@TenuousFerret23

The lobby list is supposed to be able to contain more than a maximum of 100 lobbies.
The lobby list is supposed to display the information in real time.

To me it looks like this is working as designed and thus no bug. Still it is annoying and (i agree) it needs to change. But this part isnt really a bug. I made my own thread about suggestion about the lobby:

How to improve the lobby?

Most people know i mostly play ranked games, but sometimes i do check the lobby for some games. Mostly it is a very bad experience and i run right back to ranked (which is much more superior). The lobbies of DE are even an downgrade of the lobbies at Voobly in my opinion. Instead of just ranting on the lobbies and say people have to go to ranked (which i still do support), we can also look at some ideas to improve the lobby and makes it more useful. 1. Unranked elo Let’s start with the big ele…

Have a look and share your opinion.

[FinalBucket3743]

Well… yesterday I had a lobby which was shown as 5/8 players in, so I wanted to join, but “No slots available”. Ok, fair enough, maybe I should refresh, after the refresh it still shown 5/8 players, so I was like “ok lets try again, maybe host kicked people”, again “no slots available”. Refreshed again, still same 5/8.
Yeah the state of the lobby is bad, and having to manually refresh is a little bit of a pain, but I think its a complete different problem if that somewhat simple system as it is now does not even work properly…