Hangups in Quickmatch queue

[DeathCompany22]

I just finished the Campaign, which was a lot of fun, it's very well designed to appeal to a younger crowd and keep them interested while providing some laughs for older gamers. So I decided to get into Multiplayer, and hit up the Quickmatch button for a game.

My first game queued up fine, but the guy ragequit (I see this has already been adressed so I eagerly await that fix.) In my second matchup however, I got paired with someone and their Status stayed at "choosing airship pilot". Now this could mean 1 of 2 things - either they are in the queue but afk, or there was a glitch in our matchup and either they can't move past pilot selection or the game doesn't recognize they have and won't pass that info on to my end.

So I sat in this matchup waiting for a few minutes - it's a new game, I can't expect perfection. After a while I back out and try again, but the Quickmatch keeps pairing me with the same guy. Very frustrating when I want to actually play but keep hitting a wall that I can't do anything about.

So proposed fixes/helps - for problem number 1, putting a timer on the selection process, say 2 minutes to choose a pilot and all your buildings, otherwise you get booted out of the Quickmatch queue. This takes care of AFKers or people who get disconnected during the matchup process, as well as prevents someone from getting matched up with the same person over and over for eternity while they are stuck, since the timer will boot them out of the Quickmatch setup.

For problem number 2 obviously some research would have to be done into the way the game coding handles the matchups and passes the info to see if there are any errors that could cause the process to get stuck.

I really like this game a lot, it's a fantastic idea and a lot of fun, and I'm glad to see that the dev is so dedicated to taking care of the players and using our feedback.

[nickwithtea]

My quickmatch kept putting me with a guy who was afk :P Anyway hopefully later in development we'll see some type of que

Played one online match and it was great, pretty intense

[petey123567]

I'm working on a fix for the rage quits, hopefully it'll be up today. Next up will be to address afkers in matchmaking, using solutions a lot like you described!

[Arsmountain]

Yeah it seems like the only two big problems with match making at the moment are afkers and quitters, after that I'd guess the invincible towers bug but that's a lot less common.