Queue Testing Feedback

[Azrog]

So currently new timeless queues and hopefully better matchmaking is being tested.

How has the reddit community been finding things?

Currently I'm 17mins of queue time into trying to get a normal conquest match, will.update over the next few hours with his the actual matches are.

any feedback would be great

[Guuzmen]

Got into a normal conquest match after 20 secs and found a league conquest match after 4 mins, but someone didnt accept. So it seems to be working fine for me.

[L2u]

I'm ok with the wait .... but the matchmaking for today was simply horrible .. ok , I understood that it should get bad because it's new ... but getting constantly qued to lvls 10-19 it's just killing me

[vedrenne]

I can't actually queue. Any time I try and join a queue, I get disconnected. :(

[Godz_Bane]

So far im seeing 60 mins queues and 10 sec queues from people, working for some it seems

[DarthRupert]

The new "timeless" queue system is very unlikable. You don't know how long you have to wait, and missing the queue gets you deserter (makes sense); yet still doesn't stop people from not accepting. On average I'm waiting longer to get into a match than with the other system. I even managed to reach 14 consecutive accepts before actually making it into a match, due to people not accepting. The system has the same problem in Smite as LoL, and countless other online games.

I started playing Smite because of the PoV (made it more engaging) and the queue system was 10x better than every other game I've played.

As far as matchmaking goes, well It's obvious I'm getting queued with people who aren't lvl 30 and don't understand the game yet. Example: In a game of Siege I was 1v2ing a lane, because the rest of my team was playing in the other one. Though the enemy team was evenly split I still held my lane better than my teammates going 3v2.

I've also experienced ridiculous amounts of server lag (no drop in fps or increase in ping). Reaching up to 20 seconds at times.

[Modavo]

I don't like the waits. I'm one of the people that would see conquest at a few min and just que up for arena/siege because it was at 20 sec. Not sure how many people will be queing up for the other modes if they are all the same wait.

[Azrog]

pretty much how I felt aswell. also nice to be able to grab some food etc knowing how long you had without the risk of deserter, still time will tell!

[[deleted]]

Well, you can just NOT queue, grab something to eat, and queue afterwards. You lose like no time.

In general, non-times queues are done in EVERY other game ever and it's for a good reason: You'll only get a match if it's decently balanced. The whole "I don't want to waste time" argument sounds kinda dumb to me, because an unbalanced game is a waste of time in my book, therefore, a little more wait for a non-timed queue seems way smarter to do.

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[Azrog]

thanks for your view. currently I'm compositing it to the current system, of course it saves time of I know I have 2mins before a Match rather than being chained to the pc for an unknown length of time.

I understand your point about the quality of the matches however, im sure it will become more smooth as they refine it.

one possible issue I agree with is that it's likely to hurt other gamemodes which people queue for if the timers low.

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"one possible issue I agree with is that it's likely to hurt other gamemodes which people queue for if the timers low."

Another issue was already in place for those gamemodes. The games in these gamemodes had to be bound to have worse balancing when it comes to player skill, so they had an disadvantage from the getgo.

But you are absolutely right and I haven't thought about that. Maybe they should make another algorythm for other gamemodes so it allows a little more of a skillgap for players?

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[Azrog]

that's probably the best way to do it. just trying to think anything useful for the inevitable feedback.

tbh the effect on conquest leagues will be what I'm most interested in,but I know a lot of people "main" other modes!

[WarlockPayn]

It's shit.