No Easy Way To Join Servers With Friends

[JoSantos]

I do play with friends from time to time, and it has never been easy for everyone to get into a server simultaneously.
This should be a option to add on 2022. Those days of each one trying to find the server are gone.
Allow the option to join and invite from Steam menu.

[Mehrunes Dagon did nothing wrong]

It works. I joined my friend on steam last night. You must just be in a private server with Steam join disconnected or something. I joined on someone through steam multiple times yesterday.

[JoSantos]

I will give it a shot. Thanks for the detail.
Although an option to join the group will still be great.
For example: Rainbow 6
You can add the or join friends in the lobby, and whenever one goes, everyone will follow without each individual having to do anything else.

[SushiJaguar]

That's a completely different matchmaking system though, mate. At least understand the function of the thing you want added versus what exists.

[macdaddymario]

Originally posted by SushiJaguar:

That's a completely different matchmaking system though, mate. At least understand the function of the thing you want added versus what exists.

I hate to say this, because the state of release that game was in doesn't deserve much of any praise... but even BF2042 has the option to join a server from your group, with your group. Yes, there is the R6 "skill based matchmaking", but the host of the group also can look at the server list and join an individual server and it pulls everyone in.

There's really no reason the system doesn't exist at this point.

[Mehrunes Dagon did nothing wrong]

Originally posted by macdaddymario:

Originally posted by SushiJaguar:

That's a completely different matchmaking system though, mate. At least understand the function of the thing you want added versus what exists.

I hate to say this, because the state of release that game was in doesn't deserve much of any praise... but even BF2042 has the option to join a server from your group, with your group. Yes, there is the R6 "skill based matchmaking", but the host of the group also can look at the server list and join an individual server and it pulls everyone in.

There's really no reason the system doesn't exist at this point.

I feel like it's actually because there is no server Queue system. If the server is full except one slot and a party of 4 try to join, only one of them is going to get in. The others will be kicked back to the server menu where they would have to wait to visibly see the server lose a player before trying to join again. That and there is no "matchmaking". The server host would still have to manually find a server that has enough slots for all players to join. That and pre-game lobbies require their own netcode, code this game does not have in place so it would have to be made from scratch. Finally, this isn't really SUPPOSED to be a casual shooter you join with friends. Conflict is a very "Gamey" mode for an Arma release, I would expect it would work for servers like this but not really any others. None of these are excellent reasons why it isn't a thing, just speculation. It could be added in the future, I guess. I just think very few people play arma in a small group. You're either solo or on a ♥♥♥♥ huge server.

[Davey Bones Locker]

You can join by selecting your friend in the steam overlay and choosing "Join game" on the person who's in a match. Haven't had any issues with it