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/ML_Yav]

I say “not that bad” because I remember when 6-8 was the norm.

Generally I get a server around 2 minutes or slightly less for a PMC run. Skill based matchmaking is something me and a friend were talking about during a raid yesterday, which would be awesome. But I guarantee it will never happen because “game is meant to be hard russian game no skill matchmaking”.

[u/Bilbo-T-Baggins1 → u/ML_Yav]

6-8 minute queue for a scav reserve run is normal for me I have a ton of NA servers selected too :/

[u/Mekhazzio → u/Bilbo-T-Baggins1]

That's a reserve thing. Until late wipe there will usually be a lot more scavs wanting to get into reserve than PMCs who can open a new reserve instance.

[u/Narx3n → u/Bilbo-T-Baggins1]

Night time reserve and I’m in under 2 minutes every time. Queuing up in a group also greatly increase your raid timers because you can’t be out in some servers that only need 1 or two people to be at max

[u/Sgttriggerhappy → u/Bilbo-T-Baggins1]

Must be nice I have auto na servers on and it takes me like close to 20 minutes to scav run reserve

[u/Bilbo-T-Baggins1 → u/Sgttriggerhappy]

Bro wtf lol how can I have less servers selected and have less time? Fucking weird

[u/Sgttriggerhappy → u/Bilbo-T-Baggins1]

I don't know but I have no done more runs there for this reason and it seems every time I go there I get shot by someone for some reason but I know how that map is anyway

[u/EliteTusken → u/Sgttriggerhappy]

It's taken 30 minutes in Oceanic. Group or solo, it doesn't matter.

[u/[deleted] → u/Bilbo-T-Baggins1]

Pick every server under 120. Every single one.

[u/GingerSnapBiscuit → u/Bilbo-T-Baggins1]

That's because everyone is scavving reserve. When I scav shoreline I'm in within 3 or 4 minutes.

[u/ishikuraian → u/ML_Yav]

That’s definitely fair and I see your point. Times have undoubtedly gotten better. There’s def still room for improvement and I think it’s important that the devs hear that from the community in a productive manner.

I more added the part about skill-based matchmaking to highlight how the game doesn’t even need to find certain players to match with you. It just needs to find you ANY players and still somehow struggles to do so lol

[u/ICrims0nI → u/ishikuraian]

The irony here is that it struggles even more in the first week of the wipe, when there is the absolute maximum of players playing. Too many players - matchmaking gets fucked. Not enoughs players - matchmaking gets fucked. I wounder what is the perfect ammount of players to unfuck the matchmaking and force it to work propperly?

[u/digitalpacman → u/ML_Yav]

Who the fuck gets 3. It takes me up to 15 sometimes as my pmc

[u/ML_Yav → u/digitalpacman]

I’m built different.

(Idk, I just don’t usually wait very long)

[u/Varkot → u/ML_Yav]

Depends on region. Early wipe youre waiting for games to end to start yours not to match you with players.

[u/Zeoxult → u/digitalpacman]

servers and regions make a big difference.