it does take a while to find a game. and one of my topics i made talks about how predator needs buffed. so when you finally get a game, its way to quick to die. the pred games are way too short. and when i do get into a predator match i die because (the predator needs buffed in my opinion)
Waiting over 45 minutes for a single game as Pred...
We are living update to update. Whenever the next one hits, people will start playing more again. Two month is a long wait, plus more bugs, exploits, cheating doesn’t help. It is what it is
A shit sandwich with a cup of warm piss to wash it down
I usually find matches randomly with 5-15 minutes, if I’m unlucky it’ll take multiple retries of 15 min and even then it’ll be empty lobbies.
I had a match yesterday where there were only 3 ft there and 2 with mics. As the match was right about to start they both just said “we don’t have a fourth let’s just leave” and left me with a potato that didn’t know what to do but to try and shoot me no matter how much I tried to help.
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Funny, I play on PS5 and I don’t seem to have that issue. Yeah people’ll leave and things, but I usually wait a maximum of 8 minutes for a match and a minimum of like 4 minutes for a match. Even if I have to requeue it’s like 15 minutes in total, which is a decent amount of time but no where near 45. Do you have crossplay turned off by any chance? That seems to shoot the pred queues up a lot.
I’m in the US and for me that is considered good ping.
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xD i get like 4ms ping when i play EU
but yeah i mean its not bad… for me its bad if its 144… below 100 its somewhat bearable
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I’m in the UK, you know when its EU servers as its normally 0 or below 15 . When I play with American team mates I’m between 90 and 130
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A big part of it is broken lobbies. The matchmaking system isn’t good. If they fix that it will improve things immensely.
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My question is do they know how poor the matchmaking is?
Are they too busy putting forth all these players money to future new games?
I mean to have a playable product at the BARE MINIMUM is needed.
Yet we are still struggling here as consumers.
Just very odd.
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https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/illfonic/
Maybe this explains it? @Elliott626 . Plus in an early patch they noted the matchmaking was putting the people at the front of the ques , to the back instead of connecting . So who knows what’s going on
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Im still lead to believe they are using P2P servers still cause of shit ping we get and how the server i based on around one guy in game.
So like u get like one guy whos ping is 20 and others are 96-144
In the EU u get like people with 4ms ping upto 12ms and then pred would be at 96ms
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Theres the old saying of “you get what you pay for”, they opted to cut 70% off their servers cost and it could be a factor , that doesn’t mean its at the server end as it could be at illfonics end .
And im not sure how the servers work but i know how its supposed to work and gather 5 people who pings are close in proximity and not like gathering US people and putting them in EU… or reverse roles
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Idk fam all i know is that the servers arent supposed to like put u in US server just cause u got like 96 ping does not mean ur close by US…
Its trash set up
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They went with a cheaper option , so its asking for trouble if that is what the issue is . Its rare I get into a eu server but from anything I seen ? America is by far the biggest playerbase
For me 100-130 is average and seeing 200 would not really surprise me. I think the lowest I can recall getting was around 30-40, but that was 1 in a million.
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“Dedicated servers”
Lmao
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I’ve no idea how much of that works , I did read , so this isn’t coming from me (I only read it) , higher ping would actually give them somewhat of an advantage? It makes you wonder about a “top” pred that only hosts private matches, and has upward of 900 ping
I have had some 0 ping games, I dont have the best Internet speed either