3-4 player groups, long wait time

[BiggieMcHugeLarge]

Joining survivors with 1-2 players is reasonable. 3-4 seems to take forever. Why is that? Hard to convinece friends to play when we have to join in sperate groups or need a 5th for a private match. Are the group priorities for searching for games balanced?

[CovfefeCat]

Solo queue players get priority for some stupid ass reason. It completely defeats the purpose of this game being multiplayer when I can often fit in 2 or 3 games as a solo queue in the time it takes my 3 or 4 man group to find a match. Devs really need to give larger parties the priority here, because it would entice people to invite their friends to buy this game and play with them.

[Traglodyte]

You've gotta wait for brand new lobbies to be made if you've got a full team, and it just takes longer as there's less killer players than survivors.

Note: I don't know this from personal experience, but it's a common enough complaint that I've seen the answer numerous times, plus it just makes sense.

[CovfefeCat]

No... it doesn't make sense. I can find a match in 5 seconds with Solo queue. And sometimes I get there and it is JUST the killer and I. So why can't my 4 man pre-made simply grab that same killer and throw them in a game with us? Make the solo queue players have to wait longer for a queue to pop, which would entice them to either play killer (we don't have enough of those queueing up as it is) or to persuade their friends to buy this game, which leads to not only more profit for the devs, but also a larger playerbase to fix matchmaking. I can't tell you how many times I see Rank 1's placed with rank 20's in solo queue. We need more people playing to even out the matchmakign for EVERYONE

[Traglodyte]

Originally posted by Heroes Never Die:

No... it doesn't make sense. I can find a match in 5 seconds with Solo queue. And sometimes I get there and it is JUST the killer and I. So why can't my 4 man pre-made simply grab that same killer and throw them in a game with us? Make the solo queue players have to wait longer for a queue to pop, which would entice them to either play killer (we don't have enough of those queueing up as it is) or to persuade their friends to buy this game, which leads to not only more profit for the devs, but also a larger playerbase to fix matchmaking. I can't tell you how many times I see Rank 1's placed with rank 20's in solo queue. We need more people playing to even out the matchmakign for EVERYONE

Oh, I'm not disagreeing with you (I hadn't even seen your post until after i posted mine, and I'm just too lazy to do edits when they aren't strictly necessary). I'd say, if there isn't actually priority, it's just poor luck and timing. If there is priority, who knows what reasons the devs may have?

I'm almost tempted to say that giving groups higher priority could backfire, judging by how common SWF Dodging allegedly is, but I have no clue. Even if it would, I doubt it was something taken into account by the devs originally.

As for the making sense, I just meant that, what with there being considerably less killers than survivors, it's understandable that it'd potentially take a little while before a lobby opens up. Nothing more, nothing less.

[§ Jay|m0f0|Mills §]

We have the same problem ALL THE TIME. Play solo or as a killer and you find a game in no time. My theory is that whichever person starts the lobby is the 'host' until a killer (the real host of the game joins) at which point everyone in the original lobby is transferred. Then quite often the killer sees you holding a toolbox and quits which boots everyone to lobby or leaves some in an indefinite loading screen until you hard crash the game. Then verify your files in steam, it downloads 1 file every time. Same issue. Worst part to me is I've seen a few updates happen with dlc and new maps which is fine but (to me) the real core problems that really kill this game remain unadressed. Still fun to play but if you have a group of friends you like to play with.... Expect to be punished by either finding no killers to play against or ending up playing the game with all friends and receiving no blood point rewards.

[Polanski]

I play very often in SWF to troll around with friends

3-4 players are easy to join when you consider a few things:
1. Play on high regoins like EU-London, US- NY, LA, Candada- Toronto
2. Look for the time in thus regions, best peek is somewhere between 17-22 PM
3. Switch regions under - Steam, Setteings, Download, Region
4. Everbody of your group should take other regions to qualify for search in diferent regions
5. Lobbyhost should be in the Best region see 1 & 2
6. Consider to get sometimes laggy games
7. If the killer is low/bad feed him some points and Secrefice 1 of yourself so he dont have a bad expierence and open another "SWF OP" thread thx

Regards and have Fun