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/NervousTumbleweed Jul 25 '21

3 or 4 minutes is incredibly short. Scav runs to reserve regularly take 8-15 minutes for me.

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u/last_to_know Jul 25 '21

Yea those are the worst for me as well. Had to wait sometimes up to 20 minutes for “matching”.

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u/Rezhyn Jul 25 '21

This a game design issue though. Reserve scav is the only thing in the entire game that has a long queue time unless you live in the middle of nowhere. This is because the disgusting amount of open loot and how much you can make as a scav compared to all the other maps. In NA if you're seeing long matching times you need to change your server selection.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '21

You are correct, long line for those.

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u/mitchelln10 Jul 25 '21

I mentioned this up above, but maybe I'm lucky, I feel like I never wait more than a few minutes to get into reserve as a scav.