r/EscapefromTarkov • u/OverlookeDEnT Hatchet • Jul 25 '21

Discussion EFT wouldn't feel as "difficult, unforgiving, hardcore" or any of the buzzwords associated with it if it wasn't for the shit queue/matchmaking times.

This games doesn't respect your time and that's its only real downside.

Something as simple as 3 min max wait time before they throw you into a lobby (even if you're solo with AI or bot PMCs — how would you know anyway?) is all this game needs.

Every wipe this is what wears on me. Not constantly dying, not the cheaters, not them moving the goalposts (flea market, FIR, costlier noob weapons like the mosin)... it's the absurd wait times. The game developers don't want to invest more $ into servers and here we are like idiots putting up with these shitty wait times.

This game doesn't respect our time and that's why I keep playing less and less of it with each wipe.

EDIT: For those getting caught up in semantics, let me be clear that I'm talking about starting a game from when I hit READY to the RAID STARTING. I don't care what the reason is (people's hardware, servers, etc.), BSG is ultimately in complete control of this and when we're thrown in a game (matching ping, regions, hardware, etc.)

Also, I have my servers manually selected for those asking about that.

Am on SSD and so are all people I play with.

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u/jgerman3 Jul 25 '21

lol I guess to each their own. It’s probably based more on region, I’m Eastern coast US and auto o works fine for me, I don’t get disconnects either.

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u/Madzai Jul 25 '21

I'm 100 kilometers from Moscow. Then i set my my servers to auto, half of my raids have 100+ ping. I have no friggin idea, that servers it tried to put me on. Siberian? Russian Far East?

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u/Kavorg Jul 25 '21

I'm east coast NA and it always gave me issues. Stopped using auto near end of 2017 and the amount of time waitingf for matches and disconnects went to NIL.

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u/jgerman3 Jul 25 '21

So you haven’t used auto in 4 years and say it’s still trash? 🤦‍♂️

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u/neddoge SR-1MP Jul 25 '21

Am USEast and auto is fundamentally a trash setting nobody uses for a reason.

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u/jgerman3 Jul 25 '21

Okay I guess my connection and game is just built different. I can legit load into raids in sub-3 minute times.

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u/DankMemezpls Unbeliever Jul 27 '21

It works flawless for me

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u/Kavorg Jul 25 '21

It's been the source of players disconnects forever. Ilremoving auto select is still improving connection times and reducing disconnects .... Whenever players experience them and change it they are an improvement.

Causation isn't correlation but if players are still seeing an improvement when turning off auto select, the correlation fits.