THREE years later the lobby are still INCREDIBLY BAD

[seyluun]

How can anyone be so incompetent? I still get stuck for minutes at a time on a machine, only to get a loop of "failed to get information" on every others after and needing to leave multiplayer entirely. How was it never fixed? How is it possible to still see several player on the same slot, or a character on the tv screen with no player under? How do I still get auto paired with players that have been afk for hours? Seriously.

[Ω Yukich]

Dont go to lobby
There's a quick match for a reason

[Asuterisuku]

Originally posted by Yukich:

Dont go to lobby
There's a quick match for a reason

... You're aware quick match just drops you in a lobby right?

[AnomalousRaven]

My favorite Strive moment is getting a rating update then being put in an empty lobby.

[envoy168]

its terrible

[Unrighteous]

Yep, everyone was complaining about the lobbies in the game's betas and they've never been fixed. The ranked system is complete garbage in this game. I'm pretty sure matchmaking speed would be 10x faster if it drew from the entire player base instead of the 0-31 other people in your lobby.

Still a fun game, but yeah actually getting into a match is terrible. If you're skill is at floor 10, then you can just ignore your celestial promotion and sit there, but if you're bouncing between floors constantly, it's so freaking slow (why is the floor change animation so long).

Park is fine though.

[Nauct]

I just go standby in training mode and it's just like a normal queue while I practice

[Ω Yukich]

Originally posted by Asuterisuku:

Originally posted by Yukich:

Dont go to lobby
There's a quick match for a reason

... You're aware quick match just drops you in a lobby right?

Aware, but that way you dont have to deal with barely working "machines"
Also dont have to look up for matches, you just click quick match and alt-tab till something happens

[Unrighteous]

Yeah, just started playing again after a long hiatus. Quick match puts in me a lobby with 14 people, and sometimes I'll be sitting in training mode for 5+ minutes waiting for match. Very often when I do get a match, people are AFK and don't accept (no time limit or anything), so I cancel it, but then the game matches me with the same person 5 times in a row, forcing me to manually go to a lobby with different/more people.

IT SUCKS.

[Ω Yukich]

Yeah, Granblue spoiled us with simple queues both in Rankeds and Casuals with All Around World system
I hate hobo hotel
And even without entering training and just waiting on choosing side screen - after match it forces back onto that screen and you're forced to load training mode to exit (or just alt+f4) when you feel you're done for today

godda-mit ASW

[Unrighteous]

Originally posted by Yukich:

Yeah, Granblue spoiled us with simple queues both in Rankeds and Casuals with All Around World system

You know it's bad when people would rather have Granblue's terrible online haha. Ranked is tier based instead of MMR, so you're constantly fighting people way above or below you in skill, and casual has more AFK farmers than actual players.

God I wish Arcsys games had SF6's ranked mode.

[Shoepots]

Originally posted by Yukich:

Originally posted by Asuterisuku:

... You're aware quick match just drops you in a lobby right?

Aware, but that way you dont have to deal with barely working "machines"
Also dont have to look up for matches, you just click quick match and alt-tab till something happens

Until it puts you on a broke machine that keeps throwing the "failed to matchmake" error over and over and then you have to manually switch lobbies. It sucks either way.

[guimeneguello]

Worse yet: your floor ranking is not separated by character. I'm very discouraged from trying new characters because I'll but put in floor 9-10 where I mostly find good matches with my main but get smoked whenever I try a new one, so I just lose a bunch 'till I'm floor 7 or 8 and then start learning the character. The alternative is to go park, but nothing guarantees I won't be matched against someone much better as well. A standard character separated ranking system(like most games have, even GBFV Rising and DNF Duel, two games made by Arcsys as well) would be so good.

[Max Belmont]

And it will continue to suck for many years to come

[dash slamson]

yep is sure sucks

[SaulD]

At this point it is safe to assume that they ever will be. Also still missing some basic functionalities like stage select or music preview just before a new set.