S.O.S Beacon

[Herja]

How does this SOS Beacon even work? does it move your game to the top of the list? if you're game is set to private will it make it public? How do I prioritise joining games with one active?

So many questions. Would be nice if it forced your game public and if there was a second window in the multiplayer menu showing active S.O.S signals. But right now it seems completely useless.

[BlackjackGT]

From experience, I believe the beacon WILL turn a "friends only" game into a "public" game. A Steam pal and I were playing last night and I was on "friends only." He dropped a beacon later on, and someone - a stranger not on my list - joined us fairly promptly.

I mean, I think it's pretty effective -- every game I've been in, once a beacon drops, someone joins pretty soon thereafter. I just don't know the game gives any way to "prove" that the person joined because the beacon moved your game up on the MP game server list; or if it was just pure coincidence.

[Tiramisu]

Ive never known dropping a beacon in a non public game to allow others to join. Altho its not something I use that often, if I do its usually a free tank kill kinda deal XD

Dropping the beacon simply pushes your game up on the multiplayer listing.

It would be nice if a small icon of the SOS was displayed when viewing a public game in the list, a suggestion I made long ago - but I guess theyve had more important things to do.

[Garm]

Originally posted by BlackjackGT:

I mean, I think it's pretty effective -- every game I've been in, once a beacon drops, someone joins pretty soon thereafter.

Never, and I mean NEVER it worked for me. Need reinf on solo 9-12 went wrong? Not gonna help. I'm going to die because nobody's going to join.
Game's always set to public, too.

[Herja]

Originally posted by Nightingale:

Originally posted by BlackjackGT:

I mean, I think it's pretty effective -- every game I've been in, once a beacon drops, someone joins pretty soon thereafter.

Never, and I mean NEVER it worked for me. Need reinf on solo 9-12 went wrong? Not gonna help. I'm going to die because nobody's going to join.
Game's always set to public, too.

Bust my ass off trying to solo a "hard as hell" mission, need assistance and toss down an SOS. I tough it out and make it home alive... random guy joins on my ship while i'm afk few minutes later. so I yell at him "Where were you when I needed you!" he quietly leaves.