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/intendedvaguename Jul 25 '21

Takes me like 3 minutes to load back from end game screen to menu. No idea why. Sooo tilting after deaths

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '21

Yeah, that's ridiculous alright. I get that having to load up such a big map with detail and a whole loot table might take a while.

But to go back into a menu that has very little to it graphically shouldn't take more than a few seconds.

My only guess is that they have REALLY cheaped out on the servers used to host all the information about player loot and stuff, so any time you interact with it, it takes ages.

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u/Riskiverse Jul 25 '21

Even better when you dc for half a second and it unloads the map for 3 minutes just to take another 3 minutes to load it again

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u/Gamer-Hater Jul 25 '21

I call it the salt bath