Operation Long Matchmaking Time

[Erased]

I noticed in matchmaking queue time in operation mode is inconsisten, sometimes it only need 10 seconds, but directly after that raid I'm matchmaking again but until 30 minutes I still dont find the match
Is this related to SBMM stuff that many people talked about?

[Pixelica]

No, most ppl just don't like current direction of operation, so only few ppl playing operation atm.

[MishaXG]

I guess the fact the Layali is only easy mod + all the changes about easy / normal + brakkesh being only the weekend + no more difficult mod is also part of the problem.
Once you reach plat you can only rank up playing Normal, so for example when you have quest on Layali you earn no ranking points at all.
In addition that means some players could get really fat playing in Hard mod looting everything and now you cant anymore.

There s the No Gear maximum limit in Easy mod when Easy mod should be for people to learn the game. Why Layali is only in Easy and not Normal? Who knows....
Why Space City isnt only in Hard mod? (kind of a Tarkov Lab where you need a card to get there, here it would be some max gear value) Who knows...

There s also a cheater problem. Difficult mod was kind of solving the problem (a bit) cause people would go there but since the changes it became full random. Not saying everybody is cheating at all, but in extraction mod it s a big problem especially when you go out with some gear.
=> This should be solve (more or less) with the compensation to be killed by a cheater + they are trying their best to ban people

The balance between bullets / armor is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up too which piss of players. Actually there s no reason to go in with more than Blue / Purple armor / ammo.

Made a post what they should change.

There s also the fact that after a rank you only get points from extracting and players kills (not only putting them on the ground that doesnt count but downing them + kill them otherwise it counts as nothing)
For people like me that prefer a ''sneaky'' approach and 1 out of 10 raids go with a good gear out, it s just a pain. Even if i still manage to kill bosses, extract, make some good loot... sometime kill some people but as i m running Solo the majority of the time killing 3 people isnt an easy task majority of the time.

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If you add up all this together interest in this mod falls apart really fast.

For me the Ranking System is crap, as it s an extraction shooter mod, not a war mod. So when you kill a Boss, when you get out with 1M / 2M+, you manage to do some quests, kills some NPC.... all this should count to rank up.
Goal is to do your quests, loot what you need and extract in those kind of games. It never was to clean all players on the entire map.
Sadly at some point the most rewarding thing is to kill players to the point that it s better to kill 1 or 2 players and die (you will rank up), instead of surviving.

Had those games where you arent even reward to make the smart move.
One obvious example =>
3 players (2 ennemies together vs me) and only 2 extraction without backpack left. There was no time left to do a normal extract, so instead of trying the 1v2 i choose to use my Operator smoke and activate my running skill to get to the extraction (had to cross their path to do so).
Manage to survive and extract but earn nearly nothing, still my move made one of them die and lose everything (so basically i killed one without any risk). At the end when you look at points, it would have been better to try the 1v2, kill at least 1 guy and maybe both... even if doing so would probably mean i would be late for the extraction.

So yeah in my opinion there s some major issues that are just annoying as ♥♥♥♥.
One of them can be enough to piss people so they just stop this game mod. (and it s not like there s only 1 problem)

[USSnyper]

I was very disappointed over the holiday weeks. Matches took anywhere from 7 to 20 minutes for a match in Operations mode and between 5 to 15 minutes on Warfare mode. I put up with if for a couple hours each day and then gave up and went back to playing DMZ. At least I can get some gaming time in and not sit on my thumbs for half the day. I love the Operations mode and looked forward to it being ready play on my vacation but it obviously wasn't. I have to rethink whether or not I even want to invest anymore time in this game. I'm a casual player who works a lot of hours and can't really justify spending my fun time waiting for a match to start. I will keep trying for a little while longer and see if they fix it because I really wanted something worth while to move to from COD DMZ. Something tells me this isn't going to get fixed. Sorry to be such a Negative Nancy but I got to call it as I see it.

[limierr]

It takes between 15s to 1 min to found a game (but i play in easy mainly).
Only operation which is sometimes longer is serpentine.

[Harold]

Originally posted by limierr:

It takes between 15s to 1 min to found a game (but i play in easy mainly).
Only operation which is sometimes longer is serpentine.

It depends on your region, usually takes 15-30 minutes to find a match, and quite often I get put onto a 200-300 ping server. I wish they would just let you play a map on your own in your region, would be more fun than sitting around waiting for 20 minutes and then not being able to kill other players anyway due to ping.