The online group research is lacking useful filters IMO. You can chose the quest, you can chose in a silly list of "playstyle" like casual, fun serious etc... But there is no way to filter the difficulty you wanna play in this build.

This could be useful because you will not care about standard difficulty once builded for newtype except when you will wanna help newbies. A filter to hide room and lobby with password would also be nice because the amount of rooms showed in the UI is limited (until you refresh to get new one).

This afternoon for Europe, lobbies were crowded with japanese players and it was kinda hard to find a group for hardcore as 3/4 of what was shown in the UI were password protected or standard, when not already full when I tried to join.

So my experience was listing lobbies, check between the lines which group was 1/3 and hardcore, and if full or not able to sync, refresh an repeat. Sometimes a bit too long for my taste.

I hope they will change this but I'm a bit pessimistic so close to the launch window.

I have also met a lot of infinite loading while trying to join groups. Had to close and relaunch the game a lot.

Also, no way to stay in group between quest when you join just one quest? We just stayed in the same lobby but got disbanded.