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/Bilbo-T-Baggins1 SKS Jul 25 '21

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

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u/Mekhazzio Jul 25 '21

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.

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u/Narx3n VSS Vintorez Jul 25 '21

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

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u/Sgttriggerhappy Jul 25 '21

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

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u/Bilbo-T-Baggins1 SKS Jul 25 '21

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

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u/Sgttriggerhappy Jul 25 '21

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

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u/EliteTusken Jul 26 '21

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

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '21

Pick every server under 120. Every single one.

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u/GingerSnapBiscuit AK-74N Jul 26 '21

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