can we talk about finding game server

[verialflip]

this was a bug LONG ago... which i thought was patched, but ever since the new dev team was hired, it's like all the old bugs are coming back.

the endless waiting of not being able to find a game server. being stuck in the lobby having to completely restart the game to get out of the endless loop of looking for game server, the issue where a level won't load right and instead loads datacenter... what is going on here? i don't know if the devs are paying attention... they might be working on a huge new update or something, but while they're doing that, they're neglecting the playerbase they already have.

i've been noticing lately no matter what time i play at that there is barely any games to play! there used to consistently be like 12 to 18 pages of lobbies, now they're dwindling to about 8 or 10.... most of those matches TTT or locked games.... there's really only maybe one or two games open that i want to play (not s&d) and once i join one, either everyone leaves ( for some reason which really puzzles me) OR the game can't find a server... i end up playing a lot of half games thinking i'll just join for the next round, but then the stupid finding server bug happens!... WAY TOO OFTEN!

can someone just let me know that this is actually being worked on? the game feels like it's dying and it seems like the devs are too busy working on some update to notice.

-the lag issues
-the finding game server issue
-the game not knowing how to count properly and giving the win to the second player.
hell, the other day i won a round of gun game and DIDN'T EVEN SHOW UP on the leader board.. looking at the score menu, i definitely won the match.

there is so much that is falling short or breaking with this game. you'd think that with the new hire of devs that some of them should be tasked with maintaining the functionality of the game as it is while the rest of them concern themselves with new updates.

someone please make this game work again and restore my sanity!

[Brainslug]

The finding server bug is pretty consistent... I can't confirm that it got worse. I'm also not sure if it isn't an issue with the servers. The matchmaking system that's being developed for the Quest version works pretty well already. I think that this might also come for pc.

I also can't confirm any drop in the Playerbase. It's pretty stable.

[MrAbominable1]

This is a killer issue that needs some attention badly. I get tired of finally finding a good lobby of gun game just the have it end this way.

People payed money for this game. At bare minimum you have to try and make it playable for them.

[Brainslug]

Like I wrote... Matchmaking is getting generally reworked, so as much as I understand your desire to fix some issues, it doesn't make too much sense to fix something that your next planned update will break again.

[verialflip]

just to reiterate, i didn't say the finding server bug got worse.. it was always really bad, except that it was fixed at one point. you used to not be able to back out of the lobby before. then i guess Dave added a "leave" button so that everyone wasn't stuck in the lobby having to restart the game. sometime after that, it seemed like i rarely ran into the problem.
however, now i can GUARANTEE that i will run into this problem when i play later on after posting this comment, and not only that i will run into it, but that i will run into it at least 3 times or more.

it's basically making it unplayable.

when is the next planned update?
because sometimes that just how game deving works right? you have to fix something that makes your game not work... then you try your best not to break it with the next update...especially if you have several months between updates. this bug has been happening for like.. what 4 or 5 months now? i'd say it would have been worth pushing an update before now...

if there was a game breaking bug that literally prevented people from holding a gun, you wouldn't tell us to wait because there's an update coming in 6 months right?
granted this isn't as game breaking... but it's pretty damn close, especially considering how many games are open to join these days.

maybe your stats are saying there's no drop in playerbase, but i know that i'm not seeing all the games that are actually open, and for the ones that i do see, it's MUCH harder to find any games that i can play. 70% TTT, 15% s&d, 14% locked games. i'm talking literally one or two games that are TDM, DM, or gun game... you join one of those with only 4 or 5 players, the lobby fills up as you play...great full game for the next round. NOPE server bug... this happens without fail multiple times, every time i play, no exaggeration.

sorry but the game is broken.
dev teams are large because there's different parts of the team working on different problems, they don't just go all in on an update and let the game not function for 5-6 months. inevitably some team mates will have to stay behind and hold down the fort... but that's not what's happening here, and the fort is deteriorating quickly.

update: yep...first lobby i joined. one game with 5 people, played for about 2 mins, one full length game which only filled up half way through, then upon starting a match with a full lobby, server bug.
game's broken bud...

[supbros]

agree with flip, its depressing to finally get a full game and everyone slowly drops out as it finds and finds and finds.

[Brainslug]

Update will come soon. As always... 😀