Once “Quick Match” is removed everyone will be forced to host games just the way we’ve done on ESO, Voobly, EE, AoE3 and this will lead to a long lasting stable community. This will lead to new friends, new clans and more competition.
Currently, Quick Match is dividing the community that wants to play unranked games, we don’t want to play rated 24/7. With quick match it puts us vs noobs, which is a waste of time. We’re forced to play on that silly Quick Match mapset, which isn’t fun.
We’ll have a community where we can host games titled Experts Only, Noobs etc. We get to interact with other players, we get to pick the maps, we get to pick who plays. We want to relax and play with friends of different skill level. At the moment the community is competing against Quick Match because players are not using the lobby.
I have never played AoE4 but I’m guessing you have a similar feature there and this is the mistake on your part. The AoE4 community is constantly declining, you guys should fix your mistake here and remove “Quick Match” from Retold.
-The filters for “Browse Games” should save so we don’t have to set them each time.
-Game Title for regular games should be blank so we’re forced to enter a meaningful title.
-Adding in-game observing option; Normally we have a group of friends who play game after game and some want to take a break, the in game observing option would be very convenient. Atm, we have to leave and find the game, which is not easy and players end up leaving.
Example, you have a player who only plays rated with a few friends but none are online. No one wants to waste time on Quick Match and Retold has no lobby games…remove Quick Match.
The lobby mini game is fine for custom matches, including those with friends, but if you’re just looking for a game to play, quick match is the solution. I have wasted so much time starting lobbies and no one shows, joining a lobby and being kicked out for no apparent reason, hitting refresh for new lobbies to open up and reading through lobby titles and hoping for something that matches what I’m looking for and reflects my skill level.
You were kicked because you didn’t read the title…
So you basically want the dev to force people to play you in Quick Match? Why should they waste their time on winning a lower level player, they wouldn’t enjoy it and neither will you. It’s best that you host a game titled your skill level and people will join, which makes sense.
It’s not the only reason why someone would kick me from a lobby and I may have no way of knowing the true reason. There’s no explanation. Only a pop-up which states I was kicked.
I’m not asking the devs to force players to do anything. There is quick match. There are lobby games. Play the way you like.
Removing QP doesn’t make sense. Quickmatch serves its purpose of matching casuals against each other without too much effort or time wasted. Hosting lobbies are not really suited for premades either.
They could definitely improve the title system, as in AoM EE we didn’t see lot of public “noobmaister666’s” lobbies filling up the lobby feed. Private, Full and ongoing games were also hidden.
Also plese check your facts, AoE4 isn’t dying, its playerbase was stable for a year before AoMR and would be much higher if they actually released new civs. Of course people will jump to different table if they have only been getting pizza in their current one for a year.
I disagree; that is the purpose of ranked search. From my point of view, Quickmatch is essentially just a worse variant of ranked search, so I’d rather see it removed and not split players between two different searches.
Quick Match is taking the place of a functional lobby, a lobby system that has worked since AoE1. The avg Quick Match 3v3 takes 5min to find a team, then they match you vs a team of noobs, this is an absolute waste of time. It doesn’t service the purpose that it was intended for.
AoE4 is a game known all over the world by everyone, no one knows what AoM is. The fact that AoE4 player base on steam has been declining is probably because of Quick Match that’s preventing the lobby to service it’s purpose.
The dev don’t need to recreate the wheel, they should look at why AoE2, AoM and AoE3 to find out why these games lasted forever…they all had a functioning lobby, a lobby chat, an in game obsing mode. This allows us to create friends and communicate with others.
This guy is right, it will make Rank search unique, special and more exciting to play.
The fact that the dev wasted time making the “Quick Search” feature, it doesn’t mean it now had to be in the game. You can have Quick Search X, Quick Search Y, etc but if it doesn’t service its purpose and will hurt the game in the long run, it should be removed.
All I know is people are temperamental when it comes to who they want in their game and which game they want to play in game lobbies. People seem much more motivated to play a game quickly in quick match.
I see what you mean. It’s all about getting over the hurdle of being matched against players much better than me until the system determines my rank and starts matching me with players around my same rank. Quick match removes this impediment.
so I been playing “Quick Match” for the past 2 weeks, and the Quick Match mapset is getting boring. I don’t want to play rated 24/7. Please remove “QuickMatch” so everyone will just host regular games in the lobby like we’ve always done.
Hopefully the dev see this post.
-The filters for “Browse Games” should save so we don’t have to set them each time.
-Game Title for regular games should be blank so we’re forced to enter a meaningful title.
-Adding in-game observing option; Normally we have a group of friends who play game after game and some want to take a break, the in game observing option would be very convenient. Atm, we have to leave and find the game, which is not easy and players end up leaving.
people have seen great benefits from automated matchmaking and i think you are overlooking alot of stuff here. QP should stay and it should be expanded. the state of custom lobbies are fine atm.
Ranked matching is great but Casual quick match should be removed… I just spent 6-8 mins searching to end up facing some noobs on a map that I’m tired of playing. Then the guy refuse to quit, a 10min game took 35mins to find him.
Please elaborate on the great benefits.
Once quick match is removed, newbies will host their own games, mid level and experts will host separate games in the lobby.
I will not elaborate on benefits of QP cause its too many and im not in mood for typing.
But the fact that searching times take too long is probably caused by low player numbers and the fact that ending the game took too long cause some1 was hiding is a game design flaw and not the fault of QP. The map being boring is a flaw in execution of QP not QP itself and it is a flaw which might always be present but its effect can be mitigated to a great degree with a lot of stuff.
To many benefits? but can’t list one, lol there are no benefits, the only thing it’s doing is preventing us from creating an enjoyable lobby with lots GG’s hosted.
12:40am est and Steam shows 2,137 In-Game, even laggy EE was doing better than this game.
So many players returned for Retold and have already abandon the game…ESO, GameRanger, Voobly, EE, AoE3 all had a functional lobbies and this allows the community to grow.
I ran into Flame’s buddy Maka and he told me that he returned for Retold but there is no one to play with.
ChronoJJ said that the game is so anonymous.
I have about 200 friends from EE on my Steam list and haven’t played with any of them since Retold because of QuickMatch.
You login, no one is hosting and you have no choice but to do ranked or QuickMatch, it takes up to 7 mins to find a game now and then someone disconnects… finally find a game it’s vs random noobs.