Waiting time to play as THE PREDATOR increasing more and more!

#21

I’ve been playing the game for 4 days now.
Every day, I end up waiting 7-10 mins just to get into a FT match.

EVERY time I’ve tried playing predator, I wait 20 minutes only to enter an empty lobby.
Seriously, I just sat here watching an hour long TV episode while waiting to play as predator. 3 matches joined with an average 20 minutes wait only to find an empty lobby.

I haven’t even gotten to play an FT match yet today. Lobbies are dead.

I think this game has great potential, but right now it’s REALLY disappointing. I have yet to play Predator AT ALL in multiplayer… Only in tutorial and private matches alone against dumb as rocks AI which can all be mopped up in HALF of the 15 minute round time.

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#22

Totally !! It’s like it wasn’t tested at all.

Sony must be so disappointed!
Let’s hope they listen to us and fix this game soon.

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#23

Agreed. I spend more time waiting than playing. And it’s over so fast I get discouraged. Who wants to wait and wait and wait and wait and… you get the point. The only reason I bought this game is to play as Predator. If I wanted to play as a soldier I could play any of the bazzillion other shooter games.
I hope the next patch comes out soon.

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#24

Yep. The servers are even worse than Ubisoft’s lol

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#25

The only time I ever got into an empty lobby for more than 5 seconds was when my computer was on for too long, so I restarted it and that was fixed, so maybe its something on your end, go find some tech person to have a look.

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#26

Here is PS4. There’s nothing wrong with my internet (a pretty decent one). Yesterday some guys told me they were getting empty lobbies too after matchmaking, then it started to happen here with me.
I try to cancel the search and start again. but the same thing happens again. but they are fixiing the problem, lets wait.

#27

And it seems like no one gets the concept. Everyone wants to play predator. there are only so many fireteam players. And the game is designed to try and get four fireteam players in a match. So for every four people allowing themselves to play fireteam, 1 (one) [uno] {hana} predator gets to play. Your queue times are going to be long. Servers aren’t going to help, matchmaking isn’t going to help. more people picking no preference will help. removing the ability to pick which side you want will help.

And evolve had the same problem. you start up, choose to prefer monster, get into a match as a medic, and leave the lobby to try again because everyone wanted to play the monster. Nothing has changed except you can’t become a ball and roll over the humans while soaking up damage.

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#28

Exactly. This is a common issue with asymmetrical multiplayer games. No preference or survivor queues are always the shortest, whereas killer/villain queues are extremely clogged. Because, well, everyone wants to be them. There is nothing that will fix this. A larger player pool may help a bit, but the issue will still remain.

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#29

Loved evolve tho :o it only went to level 40 if i remember… i hope this game doenst die as fast as evole

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#30

I wrote this already.
Maybe they are already working on other game modes that allow more than one predator.

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#31

It’s possible, I always thought it was weird that the scoreboard kept track of how many Predators you killed. 🤔 I mean, if it was only ever meant to be 1 the UI could certainly be different, haha.

#32

It’s in the devs hands!
They have the keys to their future
ending up as a lame and failed developer or being able to make this great idea a real game and becoming a great developer.

#33

Interested I’ve been playing since launch, and I have had steady ques. My ques are 30sec for FT and 5mins for predator. So I wonder why it works for me and not y’all? Is it really the servers? Is it the demand for predator? None of us really know

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#34

Predator queues go from 5-20 minutes for me. Fireteam queues are less than 30 seconds most of the time. Either that many people want to play Predator or the matchmaking’s messed up.

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#35

My queues were 3-4 minutes until the first hotfix. Now it’s been a constant 30-40 seconds for NP and 2-4 minutes for P. So I’ve just been rolling with NP. I’m assuming it’s how matchmaking and regions are tracked. Probably ranking as well. I’m really not sure how some are claiming to get 5+ queues on everything.

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#36

i’m not sure where you are but for me since patch 1.05 its 10-18mins for the predator.

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#37

im only fireteam playing

thanks me later

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#38

Weird. I’m in NA/Texas. Wish I could give a reason as to why there’s happening. That’s really strange.

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#39

Brazil - South America
Well, after patch 1.05 it was 5 min for predator only. But yesterday it was about 15 - 20min for predator.
I get to play a lot with US players. My play time usually ranges from 8:00 pm to 12:00 pm that is 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm PST (this is a good time for playing videogame for us players isnt it?)

But , like I said, after the patch it was heaven. but yesterday was different. I’ll try again later.

#40

Playing fireteam is heaven dude.
Not even waiting times issues they’ve got.
Just jump in quickly, be a badass and win.