Region lock

[Alex998]

Been standing for hours trying to join and be joined without luck, is this game region locked like Stories 2 ?

[Talon]

what quest was you trying to join?

[Dagný]

It is the same as world, the problem is how MP works. People can't see the quest you're doing and decide if they want to join or not, and you're searching quest that no one is doing at the moment.

When you sum all of that with the low playerbase the result is what's happening to you

[Alex998]

Originally posted by Mimic:

what quest was you trying to join?

An high rank Pukei Pukei one i needed to do for story progression. Someone finally joined in the end and we beated the monster together.
Question still stands tho, it took hours just for one guy to join.

[Alex998]

Originally posted by Dahlia Hawthorne:

It is the same as world, the problem is how MP works. People can't see the quest you're doing and decide if they want to join or not, and you're searching quest that no one is doing at the moment.

When you sum all of that with the low playerbase the result is what's happening to you

I mean, it was an high rank one so i was fairly confident traffic was still high in that, then i remembered someone taking about the PC version having region lock so i wanted a quick confirm.

F for the low playerbase btw.

[Dagný]

Originally posted by Alex998:

Originally posted by Dahlia Hawthorne:

It is the same as world, the problem is how MP works. People can't see the quest you're doing and decide if they want to join or not, and you're searching quest that no one is doing at the moment.

When you sum all of that with the low playerbase the result is what's happening to you

I mean, it was an high rank one so i was fairly confident traffic was still high in that, then i remembered someone taking about the PC version having region lock so i wanted a quick confirm.

F for the low playerbase btw.

People not joining your hunts can happen even with Apex monsters, I once decided to search a rathian Apex emergency (one of the toughest quest end-game) and when I joined the dude literally was 10s away from killing it at 25 min, 25 min and no one joined an Apex emergency quest lol. Not being able to see active quest and time is a design problem for PC. Chances are the person who joined you used the random option because no one is going to deliberately search to fight a Pukei Pukei online.

[Alex998]

Originally posted by Dahlia Hawthorne:

Originally posted by Alex998:

I mean, it was an high rank one so i was fairly confident traffic was still high in that, then i remembered someone taking about the PC version having region lock so i wanted a quick confirm.

F for the low playerbase btw.

People not joining your hunts can happen even with Apex monsters, I once decided to search a rathian Apex emergency (one of the toughest quest end-game) and when I joined the dude literally was 10s away from killing it at 25 min, 25 min and no one joined an Apex emergency quest lol. Not being able to see active quest and time is a design problem for PC. Chances are the person who joined you used the random option because no one is going to deliberately search to fight a Pukei Pukei online.

I hope this Sunbreak DLC fixes a few things here and there then

[Plumber]

in all honesty it probably won’t fix the way matchmaking is routed; at least playing with friends is consistent

[Mika gunhild]

Originally posted by Plumber:

in all honesty it probably won’t fix the way matchmaking is routed; at least playing with friends is consistent

i thought you are getting ban lol

[ashenshards]

Join a lobby first with other people and just ask if you can post a quest. That's what I've been doing lately, otherwise there is almost no way to know if a quest is active or not. I've been working through the event quests and every few quests I'll just post one.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Alex998:

Been standing for hours trying to join and be joined without luck, is this game region locked like Stories 2 ?

As stated by the others already, it can have multiple reasons for people for not joining your quest.

In doubt you can try the "workarounds" mentioned here at the multiplayer section

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2755312447

[Alex998]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Alex998:

Been standing for hours trying to join and be joined without luck, is this game region locked like Stories 2 ?

As stated by the others already, it can have multiple reasons for people for not joining your quest.

In doubt you can try the "workarounds" mentioned here at the multiplayer section

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2755312447

This guide just confirmed my worries. If the fix to the problem is to switch Steam's download region then the game it's indeed region locked
This is not good...

[Dagný]

Originally posted by Alex998:

Originally posted by アンジェル:

As stated by the others already, it can have multiple reasons for people for not joining your quest.

In doubt you can try the "workarounds" mentioned here at the multiplayer section

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2755312447

This guide just confirmed my worries. If the fix to the problem is to switch Steam's download region then the game it's indeed region locked
This is not good...

I can see you're from italy, you can play with the whole western europe and north america. It's a soft region lock. Most people who can't find players usually change it to our region because it acts like a huge hub.

[Alex998]

Originally posted by Dahlia Hawthorne:

Originally posted by Alex998:

This guide just confirmed my worries. If the fix to the problem is to switch Steam's download region then the game it's indeed region locked
This is not good...

I can see you're from italy, you can play with the whole western europe and north america. It's a soft region lock. Most people who can't find players usually change it to our region because it acts like a huge hub.

Well, even with that much servers open, i still have lots of troubles finding someone, in these days i'm seeing very few joinable sessions too (i even started finding a couple holded up by possible bots given the names).
Switching download regions is not hard yeah, but it's still a bother to do just to find someone to play with when my friends aren't around.

[mawasa]

Originally posted by Dahlia Hawthorne:

It is the same as world

Which is why it sucks. Capcom killed the online mode with World and it doesn't look like they want to fix it any time soon.

OP already figured out that it's region-locked in some weird way. No, the problem isn't the player base. There are easily enough players playing at any given time to find some who want to do the exact same quest you want to do. The issue is that since World (never played MHGU online, so not 100% sure), the games have some very wonky kind of regional-cluster system, meaning you get grouped together with maybe like 1% of people actually playing you can connect to, unless you join them directly.

It's a mystery why Capcom even still bothers giving us the possibility to make monster-specific rooms, as the likeliness of one of ~50 people making a room for Nargacuga or even Magnamalo equals 0, especially because people know about this problem. Literally why do they still bother with this? I'd love someone to answer this.

Maybe some people don't know or don't remember, but in older MHs like Tri, you could see every single lobby and every single player. Even in MH3U on the dead Wii U you could always find a room/lobby for the quest you wanted to do because it didn't put you in a tiny region-locked group with people, see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie_9lRIZF20&t=300s

It's frustrating how internet modes in video games get worse and worse and almost no one seems to care. Just look Team Fortress's attempt of replacing dedicated servers with a horrible matchmaking system, which killed the entire game. Or look at how Halo Infinite has a worse online than Halo CE 20 years ago.

[The Rizzler]

Originally posted by Alex998:

Been standing for hours trying to join and be joined without luck, is this game region locked like Stories 2 ?

okay I'm pretty sure I've asked for this before but seriously where is the source for this