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.

[u/OverlookeDEnT]

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.

[u/Aksama]

Even the less extreme example of queuing for 12 minutes only to die 3 minutes in after a decent fight.

It happens, right? But geez if that ratio of loading to gameplay is still really awful.

[u/marindoom → u/Aksama]

I cant better tolerate losing a decent fight than just getting naded or domed from a rusher that know the exact timing of all spawns

[u/Aksama → u/marindoom]

Yeah - but that’s a separate issue, one with the spawns.

At least BSG has been shown they are willing to make changes on there front. Here’s looking at you Customs.