Is matchmaking broken?

[meinschneedoggo]

I'm trying to queue up with revenant for her rememberance and it keeps on 1/3. Just a couple of hours earlier I would get instant queues.

[Ironwu]

Probably. It is FromSoftware Net Code after all.

[-UoG-Leroy.exe]

yeah same

[The Motivation]

So part of it might be because of a silly game design choice. Apparently you can't match with people who haven't unlocked the characters you have. Because Revenant takes a bit more work, that might be why queues are slower with her unlocked. My first queue after unlocking her took much longer than all my previous ones.

[-UoG-Leroy.exe]

no we legit cannot match with anyone right now. mm is broken as of like 20 mins ago

[Ironwu]

Originally posted by The Motivation:

So part of it might be because of a silly game design choice. Apparently you can't match with people who haven't unlocked the characters you have. Because Revenant takes a bit more work, that might be why queues are slower with her unlocked. My first queue after unlocking her took much longer than all my previous ones.

Seems like there are quite a few 'silly' game design choices in NR. Although I would not characterize them as 'silly'; I can think of much harsher terms. But, let's just leave it at 'Bad' design choices.

[meinschneedoggo]

Don't think that's it. Played her earlier today and got instant queues. I'm trying to go for the Darkdrift Knight, is he just unpopular to players lol?

[BigCheese]

Originally posted by The Motivation:

So part of it might be because of a silly game design choice. Apparently you can't match with people who haven't unlocked the characters you have.

This is not correct. I played with randoms using unlockable characters before I beat anything, the duchess and the summon girl.

I've always got instant groups for first boss, and after beating that it takes maybe 30sec for the others.

[-UoG-Leroy.exe]

from "soul levels" to tweaked item invasions to "don't take candy from strangers" to "you cant play without 3 people with 0 solo balancing including a boss that splits into 3"

fromsoft is allergic to good multiplayer.

[meinschneedoggo]

now it's 2 out of 3. still queued for 10 mins already

[BearPajamaGod!]

Originally posted by The Motivation:

So part of it might be because of a silly game design choice. Apparently you can't match with people who haven't unlocked the characters you have. Because Revenant takes a bit more work, that might be why queues are slower with her unlocked. My first queue after unlocking her took much longer than all my previous ones.

This isn't true I played with a Revenant last night before I unlocked her.

[♰Ω Candy Panda Ω♰]

So even if people haven't unlocked the 2 unlock able you can still play with anyone, The problem is the quest part, If you have a quest active in remembrance you cannot join any one else who has a quest active, Only by inviting to a game through an invite will you be able to join some one else on a quest, Also the match host who invited is the only one who then has a quest in that said lobby, The other quest gets put on a back line and told to wait.

[meinschneedoggo]

Originally posted by Königstiger:

So even if people haven't unlocked the 2 unlock able you can still play with anyone, The problem is the quest part, If you have a quest active in remembrance you cannot join any one else who has a quest active, Only by inviting to a game through an invite will you be able to join some one else on a quest, Also the match host who invited is the only one who then has a quest in that said lobby, The other quest gets put on a back line and told to wait.

If true, that's just stupid game design.

[♰Ω Candy Panda Ω♰]

If you leave remembrance and stop the quest it's almost instant lobby, The quest part done me in also, It's a really bad design choice because it makes it so you can only play with others who have beaten Cerberus, But also they are not linked into a quest, Really bad design.

[Dilemma]

Originally posted by Königstiger:

So even if people haven't unlocked the 2 unlock able you can still play with anyone, The problem is the quest part, If you have a quest active in remembrance you cannot join any one else who has a quest active, Only by inviting to a game through an invite will you be able to join some one else on a quest, Also the match host who invited is the only one who then has a quest in that said lobby, The other quest gets put on a back line and told to wait.

NO way. Surly that cant be the case. I refuse to believe it. I mean sure im on that quest right now and cant match with anyone,... But thats the server... right...

[♰Ω Candy Panda Ω♰]

Originally posted by Violen:

Originally posted by Königstiger:

So even if people haven't unlocked the 2 unlock able you can still play with anyone, The problem is the quest part, If you have a quest active in remembrance you cannot join any one else who has a quest active, Only by inviting to a game through an invite will you be able to join some one else on a quest, Also the match host who invited is the only one who then has a quest in that said lobby, The other quest gets put on a back line and told to wait.

NO way. Surly that cant be the case. I refuse to believe it. I mean sure im on that quest right now and cant match with anyone,... But thats the server... right...

Then, there are also Character Remembrances. These lore snippets, which are different for each playable class, lead to unique objectives on your next expedition. If you have one active, you won't be able to matchmake with other players who also have an active objective. Once again, you can bypass this step by inviting folks through your platform's party system. If you do, only the first person to start the matchmaking process will have their objective on the map.