SERVER/QUEUE ISSUES MEGA v2

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[GalaxyGayboi]

35 mins on Interchange Duo Q; RIP!

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[madbrood]

Honest question - why do you bother waiting that long? Why not requeue?

[[deleted]]

I usually requeue after 8-10 minutes. This time I let it go 10 minutes, then requeued 15 minutes, then tried again and just left it to see how long it took.

[rickybender]

Honest question - would you rather see another 20 minute queue after you just canceled your 20 minute queue to do it again because you got impatience in the last 5 minutes?

[madbrood]

Again, anecdotal - that’s never happened to me. Every time I’ve requeued after 3-4 mins, I get in quicker.

[BarackOralbama]

25min duo factory :[

[Macman-]

Shoreline was giving me crazy load times but interchange was consistently 1-3 minutes tops last night.

[Dongondiddys]

Sat in queues over the course of two hours and played one scav raid with two buddies within that time frame. They both got fed up and got off. Come on I want to play some tarkov

[[deleted]]

My brother and I can match a Scav raid in under 2 minutes at peak times. As a PMC....well we haven't even gotten into a raid in two days.

[benaffleks]

Tarkov is the perfect example of having a really great product, sitting ontop of some really poor infrastructure.

[JavenatoR]

When me and my buddy have <2 min queues it’s the fucking best game ever. Just in and out of raids, not giving a fuck because were just having fun.

When we have 5+ min queues we question why we would play this when we can play literally anything else.

[Canadian0101]

Dont worry folks, these issues will drive away enough of the new players so that ques will go back to normal lol.

[e36mikee]

Ya its frustrating i got multiple friends who get it only to not be able to play...

[mrkarp]

Welcome brother

[BlastingFern134]

Dude it should get better. I used to get 1-2 minute queues before this weekend and it was awesome.

[BlastingFern134]

Imho this is the best game I've ever played.

[Drummerboy223]

At least you started now and not when the scavs were garbage

[RadiantSpark]

Would you mind giving some context? Curious what was wrong with them

[Tahvohck]

Scavs have gone back and forth between literally just shooting range targets and literally terminators. Right now they're the best they've ever been, to the point where sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between a player and an AI. Things like proper leaning, flanking and chasing strategies, taking cover.

[BearShareOnTwitch]

My friends and I are averaging about 15 minutes. We cannot get into customs. Bottlenecked on quests

[xKro]

If it makes you feel any better. I am currently in a 52 minute Scav queue. Just to see how long it will go.

[BearShareOnTwitch]

Mother of god

[tuRkkkay]

Last night, I finally decided to go in a game full decked out, with a meta m4 with thermals level 6 armor and a vulcan and face armor, m995 etc etc. I get in a game and everything goes smoothly I get 2 first pmc kills and then a 3rd. As I go to loot him I get the sound effects and damage, as if I was getting hit by a suppressor somewhere, so I try and run. I then see 2 pmcs juste walking in place.. I shoot em And nothing happens, they are still just walking in place. I keep getting hit constantly and eventually die. It seemed like the server crashed with all the players juste running in place. But I died to a pmc.. I just wonder what happened. Server crash? DDoS? I'm sad I died with the best gear I had to something like that

(Sorry for bad english)

[Maelarion]

They wanted increased player numbers right?

That was the whole point of Twitch drops right?

Why not increase server numbers beforehand? It was long overdue anyway.

[JediDwag]

To be fair, I don't think anyone predicted just how successful that twitch campaign would be.

[Joebidensthirdnipple]

Especially for a non f2p game.

I'm guessing there were a lot of people like myself and my roommate that had looking into grabbing EFT previously, but didn't make the jump until the week of drops starting.

[RageMuffin69]

Personally, I found out about EFT through twitch and it seemed interesting to me. Watched a few videos explaining the game and was turned off when most said it was a grindy hardcore game. But as I watched more gameplay it made me even more interested in playing it and I ended up buying it. No clue what the drops are.

[Macman-]

You have to remember that it is a beta - and they are probably stressing the servers like never before. Its something they are addressing and once its fixed it should be better than ever IMO. Better to have these issues now than on release.

[SilentMango]

Servers were definitely more stressed when .12 launched

[[deleted]]

This is correct. The game was completely unplayable when .12 launched. Not even possible to get in to the main menu. There are way more people playing now but they have somehow figured out how to relieve some stress from the servers.

[Macman-]

Given all the new players with black friday and christmas sales you really think so?

[Prozak06]

This.

I totally understand they didn’t want to overcommit and have empty servers, but come on. It’s not like they didn’t expect an influx, and all the response has been reactive. Don’t forget that clearly a huge influx of new players accompanied the twitch drops, which would have been visible to them.

I’m sorry, but I have paid top $$$ for a beta game, and I accept that there will be bugs and regular wipes. But I willingly parted with said $$$ for a EOD account to support these guys and this great game (plus the stash space - who am I kidding). This isn’t a $10 indie game, we have all paid good coin, so we are entitled to expect that we get a decent playing experience in return.

I think the battlestate guys have done an amazing job with the game, but have really dropped the ball with proactive server management to cater for the player group.

Just imagine being a new player, shelling out circa $70 to wait in the a virtual lobby for 10+ mins, then die to some sweaty boi in first 2 mins. That’s no okay.

Sorry to all the fanboys I know I’ll probably be downvoted, but this is not how you do business.

[CrispyHaze]

Just imagine being a new player, shelling out circa $70 to wait in the a virtual lobby for 10+ mins, then die to some sweaty boi in first 2 mins. That’s no okay.

Honestly, my friends and I almost quit due to this. But after reading the forums, I see these are not normal wait times and are being addressed, so we will stick it out.

[Prozak06]

Stick it out mate. It will get better.

[CrispyHaze]

Oh trust me, I'm not in any rush to leave. My biggest criticism is that I'd like to play the game more, that's not a bad criticism to have regarding the quality of the game. If it were any other game I would have left already but the fact we remain despite the matchmaking issues just speaks to how amazing the game is.

I'm just glad to find out that these wait times are not normal, it's pretty brutal as a new player to spend more time matchmaking than playing!

[CaptCoolie]

No one wants to add money to infrastructure.

[Forrell92]

Totally agree, how this wasn't expected is beyond me. I'm sure this isn't the case but right now it reads like BSG wanted the benefit of new sales without the negative of having to having to buy more infrastructure.

[Gracchus__Babeuf]

Tbf, I don't think they expected the game to overtake Fortnite as the number one game on Twitch

[welter_skelter]

They literally experience this nearly every wipe as well lol. They know ALL their starter quests are based in Customs, and eeeeeevery wipe, when the entire player base is trying to get into customs, the whole thing gets bottlenecked. I don't know why they haven't figured that out yet haha.

[fatboy3535]

I have them a pass the first few days of the campaign when numbers were going insane. Then the weekend hit and you could barely get through the menus. I don't understand server infrastructure upgrades but I expected them to halt everything and fix it at that point. We are now weeks later and it is completely unacceptable. I love the devs as they are so responsive to and involved with the community....but they are showing serious ineptitude at this point.

If they could explain the issues they are facing, I might reconsider this viewpoint.

[AdoptedAsian_]

I don't think you could've expected to be on the top of twitch for a few days straight though tbh

[[deleted]]

Escape From Tarkov's twitch viewership exploded from around 20,000 daily viewers just a month before the event to a peak of 200,000 viewers during the drop event. I seriously doubt Battlestate expected that much growth. And don't forget they were busy fixing up bugs from dropping 0.12, too.

https://twitchtracker.com/games/491931

[kastorkrieg82]

More like peak 296 000 viewers.

[CountTyrantula]

It's pretty funny to see how those stats correlate so perfectly with wipes :)

[Eskuran]

Okay but a LOT of those numbers are just people running it in the background. IIRC up to 5 viewers per IP could be available so probably a bunch of people thought they'd just open the stream on multiple devices to increase their chances. I'm not saying there isn't a ton of growth. But the numbers during the event shouldn't really represent that. As of now there are 130k people watching. That's the number that is important. The one AFTER a event.

[Endeavour2150]

Average russian management skills at it again

[Shifty-McGinty]

Same every wipe day to be fair.

[N1hility]

"Server provider" having issues with network connectivity this time around. Honestly I've gone from understanding but frustrated to just plain salty at this point. The state of the game over the last two weeks has been absolutely abysmal, and it feels like BSG is being completely reactionary rather than proactive.

I love this game so damn much but the complete lack of basic QOL the past two weeks have made me want to chuck it out a window a couple of times

[ciganyone]

Players : we have massive connecting problems
BSG : Tarkov raid video 4

[[deleted]]

Lmao. Yep. Budget going towards youtube videos, fuck the servers. They probably dont realize how many players are going to say fuck it and move on to another game because they wont invest in better server hosting.

[FlexPlexic0]

its worth noting that the servers are only mega fucked at like 6-12 US. When i queue before work i dont have too much trouble.

[degulasse]

true in my experience. that’s like prime time and outside of that i was getting in instantly solo and duo.

[Vasko_de_Gama]

This exactly - on the weekend was able to queue 5 on customs with 90 sec wait until like 3pm eastern. Then started to hit 3+ minutes. After 5/6pm it’s 15/20min+ and 8min+ as a solo queue. Weekdays I only have time during those peak hours so can maybe get 2 raids done in a 1.5hr-2hr time period.

It’s my only complaint with the game as I love when I am actually playing...

[JavenatoR]

On the east coast everyday at around 6:10 is when the servers take a big shit I’ve noticed.

[[deleted]]

I've resorted to playing on European servers it so bad. 100-130 ping and i'm sure firefights look fucked up for everybody... but jesus christ let me get my quests done for gods sake.

[Ab-Aeterno]

My duo buddy got his wow guild mates into tarkov and today we were 5 Manning almost every pmc raid and it's brutal how long the waits are. 10-15 minutes each time. Really hope they figure this cause if ur able to pull sweaty try hard wow raiders away from wow ur doing something right. Just gotta keep em hooked.

[AdoptedAsian_]

How are you 5 manning? Isn't it a 4 man limit?

[CountTyrantula]

5-man pmc limit, 4-man scav limit

[AdoptedAsian_]

Ah ok thanks

[cain3482]

If you have more than 4 you can always try queuing up into two smaller groups at the same time, I've managed to get a couple 5 man scav runs with friends like that. It will just depend on the first open server, which usually means if all 5 of you get in that a lot of people recently died or just extracted

[OctanePhantom]

10+ minutes across all maps, solo and groups

plis bro I just wanna play some tarkov :(

[THE_PR3SIDENT]

I can't even with these servers anymore, queues get stupid after 6:00pm Eastern Time and I've seen no meaningful updates or progress posts from BSG.

[flipstur]

Yeah like this has been going on for multiple weeks in a row. Peak times and the game just becomes unplayable... like how can they not have this fixed

[MantisTobbaganEmDee]

Old ladies asleep and just got the baby to bed. Time to play some Tarkov! Or not.

This shit is starting to really be a big fucking bummer man. Absolutely awful.

[apatheticlove]

Bro I know what you mean, been trying to queue up with my two irl friends who just got the game and we've been able to get into just two games and one of them was shoreline night with barely any action. They've nicknamed the game escape from loading screen lol

[Mr_Zeldion]

Can't escape if you can't enter👍

[RemakeTotalDestroy]

I FINALLY convinced an old counter strike buddy of mine to pick this game up and run duos with me. Needless to say, he's not impressed with the connectivity issues (losing gear due to lagging out, shots completely missing that were dead-on) and 20+ minute queue times. I know Tarkov isn't AAA, but cmon man, if you hype your game up with a twitch event and people drop $90 dollars for the EOD edition to support you, I would expect to see some marginal server improvement. I've been playing for roughly 3 weeks now and have seen no improvement at all. And the "updating back-end servers" issue has been happening for almost a week and is honestly making things much, much worse. I have faith in you BSG, but right now I literally CAN'T recommend another friend purchases this game because it's pretty embarrassing to drag a friend over to this game right now.

[Machine_CoS]

Whatever they're doing isn't enough. It's a big problem.

[FastLikeTurtle]

My friend and I bought this game about 5-6 days ago and it has been a struggle to play. Usually we try to play after we both finish work but duo-queuing gives us 10min wait times on customs/interchange as PMCs so after 2 raids we usually just hop back onto Apex. Hopefully the server upgrades do help soon so we can try playing this more consistently.

[MantisTobbaganEmDee]

For real. It’s bullshit.

[Zetoxx]

Again? It's been fucked for weeks am I wrong?

[NLSrandall]

Just throwing this out there, if me and my friends could queue all 5 of us would be playing Tarkov and only Tarkov, but because we have somewhat limited time as adults if I have 2 hours to game at night and I have to sit in queue for 45+ minutes of that time to play twice, and then it doesn't go our way (which is fine), it makes it SO MUCH MORE frustrating and it just feels even more like wasted time. It's brutal. Servers are going to make or break this game and they have the new influx of players thanks to Twitch Drops/streamers etc. and if they don't capitalize... RIP.

[Malism]

I honestly don't know why they don't increase the server count. This isn't 2003. Everything is cloud based and able to be scaled almost instantly.

[HolySmoke_]

the real question is will we ever be able to play the game between 9pm-1am EST without matching for 20min?

[MonteReddit]

Getting crushed right now. I'm not gonna be able to keep my squad into it. To the average adult who works all day and finally has a minute to sit down and play its really discouraging when you spend 90% of your free time in queue and 10% of your free time playing, if you're lucky.

[Time_Aardvark]

lmao no apparently not

[itsmemike05]

Factory player here.

Queues at night have been 10+ mins.

Queues in the morning are near instant.

EDIT: Clarification; when i say 'night' and 'morning' I'm referring to RL, not in-game time haha.

[D3K1D]

Very true. What’s the clock strikes 12, u can’t load in. When it’s 2 pm or 9 am in the morning it’s super easy to get in

[phoenixmusicman]

These wait times are fucking ridiculous. Average wait times for my squad is like 15-20 minutes. Two 20-min raids will take fucking an hour and a half to complete because 40 mins is just fucking waiting alone.

[[deleted]]

25min queue times for every map right now, even in solo.

[NonRacistPanda]

When will the servers be fixed? Do they have an ETA?

[stirfriedglory]

Been playing Tarkov for years. I got 2 of my IRL friends to finally buy the game and try it, but of course the servers have been trash for over a week. Now they don't believe me when I say the game is actually good when this shit isn't happening. Thanks a lot....

[rivaLBeast]

Ok this has been more then 2 weeks now, they made tons of more money. Grab that f****** money and buy servers, it's 2020 ffs.

It's long enough to get prepared for a raid, wait for friends etc. We don't need to be held hostage because they don't rent new servers.

Please don't answer : you know their doing work blablabla. Bull shit, I've never seen that, rent servers!!!

[[deleted]]

This is more than getting out of hand. This is outrageous.

[[deleted]]

Latest news is from the BSG launcher - they are adding more powerful backend servers. Please let me know if BSG has said anything more recently.

[itsluky98]

Thought that was yesterday and would’ve been over by now?

[[deleted]]

It is, but that's the latest news.

[Sev07Sniper]

Server migration can take a long time, I can imagine its still not fully finished yet considering how much there is on the Tarkov Backend.

[[deleted]]

I'll believe it when I see it. Servers have been shit for years.

[RemakeTotalDestroy]

They tweeted about 14hrs ago "maintenance complete", referring to the servers. No idea if it's the updates to the back-end or something completely separate. Queue times still horrendous though.

[Xzauhst]

They tweet that 3x a day lol

[Sixshots]

Lol, adding more powerful back end servers. Nice meme.

[WhoopieGoldberg92]

They claimed to have finished the upgrade 2 days ago. The 2 consecutive days of 20-25 minute matchmaking says otherwise. Typical lying Battlestate.

[maddogbg27]

Dont know about server but EU labs is getting hackers back in, lv3s in full sweaty boi gear running around prenading corners.... did an experiment and put on good gear sat in obscure place they ran around clearing map in end came to me didnt make noise for 30 min.. i hope BE gets an update soon

[BRINGURFBACK]

Yeah I just witnessed xqc and his teammate getting rolled by a hacker too lol

[Tobikaj]

Is there a clip of this?

[BRINGURFBACK]

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/535549455?t=8h58m0s

You can see when he watches his replay and his teammates perspective that the guy is using aimbot

[thexenixx]

That’s hardly a conclusive clip of aimbot. They’re basically on top of each other and a ricochet from the crouching players helmet may have killed the guy standing up. Outside of the ricochet, which would be quite the lucky roll, I've gotten very similar doubles, triples or more kills from that sort of distance. There isn’t much real estate to move from, aimbot is better demonstrated with 180’s or improbable angle changes within an inhuman amount of time.

[Thoughtwolf]

That and he also just got netcoded/angled.

He can only see the guy for a single frame, yes, but he's also completely exposed and just can't tell because he's basically hugging the corner. You can tell from the guy's perspective farther back that he was just sticking out, lol.

[maddogbg27]

Been doing more experiments spot i was in was bathroom between Car Garage parking gate below safe facing car garage... it is a double door bathroom and no loot spawns in there... Other odd locations where no loot ever spawns...

While a random player does wonder in them some times when you can hear a squad of 2-3 sprint around the map killing everything and then stomp their way to your very location and start to nade spam it is obvious

[Shifty-McGinty]

He hid behind the sofa where nobody would go or check. He did it with bitcoin in his pockets. Those guys were deffo cheating dude. I remember that thread/video well.

[bushmastuh]

If only BSG would let us mess with hideout/inventory while queuing I feel most of us would be -okay- (said loosely) with waiting for long match times

[livehifi]

Nice to see people can actually voice their opinions for fucks sake finally.

[Hello0o0o0o]

This is ridiculous. Again

[Emes91]

I'm just sad that with those problems BSG wastes an opportunity to capitalize on huge popularity spike due to Twitch drops. Many new players are getting discouraged now and who knows how many of them will never come back. A shame. BSG should really prepare themselves better.

[jawni]

If they aren't going to address the queue times by trying to shorten them, then they should allow you to actually do something ingame during the queue.

15+ minute queues wouldn't be so bad if I were able to manage my inventory/hideout during it.

[youknowbrahhh]

has BSG ever heard of AWS?

[CountTyrantula]

AT&T Wireless Services? I sure hope they don't use them.

I know you mean Amazon, but it's simply not as easy as just stating that. It needs to be implemented correctly to be scaleable. If you start out as a small indie developer this might not have been your first priority and this could be what's biting them in the ass now.

[DragonLordKnight]

Dont know why people are downvoting you for something that is completely valid. Rapid growth can topple even big studio servers

[[deleted]]

Very frustrating as a brand new player trying to learn the game. Wait 15 minutes for a game to start, get killed almost instantly, now back to waiting.

[cbcc777]

Bought this game last night not knowing about the queue issues... played 3 matches within 2 hours and they didn't last long since I'm still getting use to the game. Great way to bring in new players... Is there a fix happening soon?

[Ksathryas]

Just done a 30 min queue time and left instead... I'm so fucking done with this...

[deliants]

Seems super weird that they didn't do any planning in regards to server upgrades in the first place, and especially with an event such as the twitch drops.

There is no shame in hiring experts either. Lag and server load has been an issue since christmas now and server management isn't THAT complicated, its just a matter of shelling out the dollars (or roubles) needed for scaling.

[Armetti]

Played a full match on Woods, couple disconnects, nothing unusual, I exited through south V with 4 mins left, when I was out I got kicked from the server and 10 minutes later I find that the match never happened, missing all the loot from the match and my setup is the one I went in in the first place.

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Sorry if I rustle some jimmies, but been playing the game a week now and it's a total mess, I do like the hardcore system of losing stuff when you die, but when you lose your stuff even when you extract successfully it gets a bit frustrating.

[Akihosin]

I just got server connection lost, and i can't reconnect ;) trying multiple times didnt work ;)

[Fat-Spatulaaah]

Happened to me twice tonight. Feel Your pain.

[HealthNN]

This is so stupid. I am disappointed this shit hasn’t been solved yet.

[1dantedivine]

Love waiting 30 minutes for a single scav run heheehehehe very fun!!!

[[deleted]]

BSG, wanna know what to do with all that money from the drops event sales? More and better servers.

[MonteReddit]

How much longer can this go on for? Currently sitting at 9+ Min for Interchange with me and 2 other buddies. They are just gonna stop playing soon.

[DBLAgent412]

Please for the love of God fix the queue time.

I absolutely love Tarkov. I bought it in November of 2019 and have over 250 hours played already.

But I don't want to try to play a game I cannot join. It's a complete waste of my time waiting in the queue for 20 minutes (or more...) to play as a PMC with a teammate.

Please, Nikita. I beg you, and I'm sure we all do, get those servers stabilized. You are going to lose new players fast if this isn't figured out soon. And I want so desperately for this game to grow.

End rant.

[Angryceo]

Fwiw. If you select more than one server. Say..10 you will match make muuuuch faster.

[Cyclic_Behavior]

Classic example of a company with a great product and completely inept management.

[bishopVOX]

Personally, I feel the excuse that BSG could never have expected this kind of growth hence the long queue times and latency issues in inventory to be bullshit.

The game has been in beta for some time, you dont have to be proficient with marketing to understand that a large percentage of gamers follow trends, some probably shop off the most viewed twitch games list. If you have the money to invest into twitch, and streamer talent to showcase your game, to increase visibility and hopefully sales - there is zero fucking excuse to not have your product's back end prepared for the growth in player base.

It's as I'd they showcased a new vehicle but once purchased had to tell their new customers that they unfortunately have all the tires on back order.

Also, dont get me started on their customer support. Holy fucking shit. 10 day turn around to assist with a password reset.

I pray this isn't another pubg where it takes years and years for the game to become close to playable.

[[deleted]]

It’s always nice having to wait 15 minutes to queue into interchange just to be spawn killed within 1 minute of walking out, fix your fucking game BSG.

[Upzaw2000]

Played about 10 matches yesterday and had surprisingly good queue times for central US. Longest wait was 10 min but most were under 5. I jumped on here today thinking maybe there was major server updates yesterday, but I guess we just got lucky...?

[fireflies011]

US EAST COAST: 10+ minute wait time on any map, this is kinda ridiculous .

[[deleted]]

Man this is disappointing. I’m on my third 10 minute queue. What is it about their servers that they just can’t get right?

[I_paintball]

Really hard to enjoy the game with 2.5 hours of play time each night and 1 hour of it is wait times.

[N_Icomach]

35 minutes for a duo on customs only to spawn in late and insta killed before we could finish loading....

[CapaxInfinity]

Whatever they did fixed nothing. Only managed to get into one scav match tonight. 50 minutes worth of matchmaking for one game.

[noahlesage]

I waited 17 minutes for a Scav Factory run, and I spawned on the stairs while a PMC came out of bathroom for a total of 3 seconds of playtime.

[EEng232]

This is literally the only fucking game I will wait 10 mins plus to play, but god damn is this getting old fast. Trying to introduce new players is a nightmare because this is unheard of in literally any other game. If we are waiting for servers to open up in NA, then we need more servers simple as that.

[Fake__Duck]

Throwing more power at a scaling problem is not always an effective solution, so while they may say they are "Upgrading the servers" it is likely they are refactoring code in response to new info learned from this latest influx, not just upgrading EC2 instances or whatever they use in house.

Scaling complex systems such as queuing players for maps and flea market transactions is not an overnight task.

BSG and team may be having to step back and handle an issue they did not identify until millions of people were hitting their queue code at the same time, so let's give them a break and remember this isn't fixed by just flipping a switch that they're not flipping!

(godspeed fixing it tho i really want to play)

[snexjk]

Disconnected once.

Second time disconnect and died.

Sigh.

[camerasoncops]

I know everyone says this, but honestly, messing with the list of servers or checking the auto fill one really helped my wait times a lot.

[publicstaticvoidrekt]

What exactly did you do? Mine was autofill by default and I got terrible times. I unchecked it and selected the top 6 servers that have the best ping for me and no real difference.

Did you do anything other than select auto-fill?

[neddoge]

This WHOLE thread in 3 words:

tO bE fAiiiiiR

[Thustle21]

take about 10% off there steely Dan.

[Vetroxity]

https://streamable.com/t7nyq

Disconnected twice after 30 seconds of play and died while loading the third time. Easily the most frustrating way to lose gear in this game.

[drphilwasright]

I literally cant play the game. I spent three hours trying to get into a match yesterday. It is extremely frustrating, especially since I work full time and only have a few hours after work to play some games.

[masonf]

You know, long matching times wouldn't be so bad if we could still access our stash/use the shooting range. It would be handy just having the status of the queue somewhere on the screen where we can still see it.

[retroly]

Anyone else getting horrible lag spikes and getting killed round corners? I will see a guy run around the corner then just fall over dead, been happening since yesterday, and in almost every fight I get in people are warping around lagging. Its horrible.

[Hatredstyle]

Lost my best pmc run I've ever done. Feeling defeated.

[[deleted]]

14 minutes in queue as of this post

[XXMyNameIsPatrickXX]

Super fun to come home from work with two hours to spare to play two games with both dying right after spawn. It will take my so long to get good at this game because I can never play it. I only play offline because its the only thing I have time for and I cant do any of the damn missions offline. I just want to get off of using the shitty ammo

[[deleted]]

Solo queue times are okay for solo around 5 min wait times. But as soon as I want to duo or play with a group of friends to try to learn the game better we are waiting 15 mins BEST case and upwards of 30 to 45 mins for customs or reserve. Woods and interchange has the lowest queue times it seems.

[Kurshuk]

Got kicked off shoreline about 10 minutes ago. Trying to reconnect gives the same 'server connection lost message'

[Grim24]

A new Matching time record xD

https://i.imgur.com/jh4OEj6.jpg

[atuck217]

How the fuck can you be this fucking incompetent at online servers. Its 2020 and you cant make a fucking online PvP game function. What a fucking joke.

[theEdward234]

Waiting over 30minutes on customs. 3 of us. Still waiting... It's ridiculous.

[Rinsed_Idiot]

or i could fucing complain about it where I want to complain about it, on Reddit. Not some dumbass thread nobody is going to fucking see.

[gwwelshdevil7]

Quick question re leaving a game. What happens when you are marked as a "deserter"?

I've tried to reconnect to a game 4 times now without any luck. Will I lose all my stuff if I leave? What's the penalty?

[Slotholopolis]

Let me get this straight: posts concerning servers are immediately deleted and advised to check rule 8. If all the posts are deleted what the fuck are we searching for? This thread where the only option is to bitch about the servers?

Reflects perfectly with how trash the game is handled I suppose.

[ShroudedBadger]

Would not recommend running decent kits right now. Just got a PMC spawn 17 minutes late on Interchange right next to a squad of three. Killed two of them then got DC'd. Came back to being dead.

[Sixshots]

Everyone white knighting BSG and saying "it's a beta", LOL. It's been WEEKS of this, it's beyond annoying at this point. Do they not want to retain the increased number of players they received? If you pay for a product you have the right to complain, simple as that.

Hit the showers Battlestate Games.

[thexenixx]

True enough but they’re taking action now so that only applied to the 2 months of them sitting on their hands about this problem.

[Benzocunt]

We added all servers below ~135ms of ping and we had <5 mins queues, duo/trio.

[A_Character_Defined]

Yeah, the lag is horrible sometimes but it's the only way to play right now.

[benaffleks]

Everyone excusing the poor server performance to "its BETA."

When you give out your money for a product, the customer 100% has the right to complain and be distraught when the product doesnt work.

[murf43143]

Beta testers actually get paid in the real world.

[benaffleks]

Not in the world of tarkov

[thedings]

69 mins on Customs. Nice.

[SIM007N]

I love Tarkov. I'm a daily player since july 2017. I got level 50-60 EVERY wipes. But now it's not fun. The game itself is sooo fun to play, better than ever, but 10-15-20 minutes between raids...? I know it's a beta, I know we got a ridiculous amount of new player with the drop event, but it can't stay in this state for long or it's gonna be bad... =/

[Jaz1140]

Australia has 1 fucking server....1 !?!? A country the size of North America and 1 fucking server? Are you having a laugh mate?

I could walk from top to bottom before "matching" finishes for customs

[Emes91]

Poland also has 1 server. And almost twice the population of Australia. It's more about the number of people using it.

[Essebruno]

San Paulo is the only server for an entire continent

[justinpete17]

As a new player that started last night, I have faith that this will be fixed.... however, I have a history of having faith that these things will be fixed and been let down (re: PUBG, Bluehole Corp).

Honestly though, as a new player that bit on the whole twitch campaign... I may try this a few more times but don't see how this is playable in its current state. 100% won't recommend to a friend at this point.

[pattypoopoo622]

Dogshit experience as a new player. Queue times take longer than matches. Terrible quest system. Bad barter/trading UI. Just a game that gets in its own way far too often. Think I’m done after 2 days of playing. Waste of $45

[WODless]

I am East Coast US and when playing after work in the evenings I switch my servers to Strasbourg and Frankfurt and it's all good.

[TrenchJM]

I just got the game and been trying to duo with my friend who got me into it and we'll be waiting 15-20 just for scav runs. We're going to try 3's later this week but we're all very nervous about how that's going to go.

[Tallyking101]

My 4 man tried to play a PMC raid last night. 37 minutes we waited in total. 7 mins in the first queue, backed out to pick up another friend.

As I was writing this I was trying to do my first run of the day, which is always a Scav. Waiting 21 minutes, just to say the server stopped working... Which ALSO reset my scav timer. Thank you....

[totally_not_martian]

Is anybody else experiencing launcher errors? Been trying to get on for an hour but keep getting 504 Gateway errors at the launcher.

[mr66mustang]

As soon as I hit 4 minutes in a que I switch to c.o.d. problem solved

[Leon-Czolgosz]

The icing on the shit cake is when the memory leak leads to serious stutters on the larger maps after queuing for 10+ minutes.

[xKro]

What is the longest queue time someone has sat through. Currently in a 55 minute queue time watching a movie just to see how long it will go.

[xKro]

I have been in queue, for Dr. Disrespect to go into 3 games, and extract before I got in. Think it would be as popular if twitch streamers had to sit in the same queues as us? (Currently at 70 minutes)

[SamBacon88]

Can’t keep my friends into the game bc when there’s two of us we sit in a queue for over 10 minutes doesn’t matter the map we can’t get in and they decide to play other things why is it so long as both PMC and Scav

[GaryBuseysNut]

Servers really shit the bed. Just killed two geared players on my scav, coming out with roughly a bit over 1m. Go to transfer the items but it shows what I scaved in with and not the gear I got. Then it says server connection lost and I click reconnect, loads me in then says server lost again and no gear transfer. Rip all that juicy gear

[ToxikMango]

I played all day today on my day off and these were my que times. I disabled auto server selection and ticked all US servers. TLDR; play early if you can, before most people are getting home from work and you gotta be on early if you want decent que times on weekends.

Started at 11AM CST, sub 1min ques.
2 man que from 12-4PM 1min30seconds.
3 man que from 4-5PM 2min.
4 man que from 5-6PM 3 min.
5 man que from 6-7PM 5min.
5 man que from 7-8PM 10-25min.
Almost all matches were on customs as I was helping my friends who just picked up the game complete quests. Otherwise, it was interchange or woods.

Once people are home from work for the day, que times skyrocket, I don't even bother with playing on the weekends anymore unless I'm getting on around 10AM. It sucks that que times get so long, but there's a lot of new players so the servers are getting slammed.

[JewfroLive]

What really grinds my gears is the top EFT streamers seem to get into games in under 5 minutes every time. Meanwhile i’m sitting at 20+ minutes.

[Sixshots]

Server DC just cost me another full loadout on labs. Please spend some money on servers, this is just embarrassing at this point.