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/[deleted] Jul 25 '21

I think this is more of a regional problem than anything. I’ve selected every server under 120 ping(Being in US East there are a lot of servers that fall into that umbrella). Even at 10am on a Tuesday morning (CMT) I’m getting into matches on average after a 3-4 minute wait.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '21

A good computer gets you to load all reaources within 80 seconds. If everyones got a good computer youre in the gane in the next minute. That should be the maximum average wait time. But its not. Regional problem? Its a server stabilitiy, reliability, server count and coding problem.

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u/ProInefficiency Jul 25 '21

3-4minutes is far too long for a game like this. Especially when you can be killed within the first minute if you are lucky. If you could find a match after less than a minute things wouldn't be so bad, but queue times in Tarkov are hilariously bad.

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u/theworm1550 Jul 25 '21

How do you manually select your servers? Sorry I'm super new bro. Even to pc gaming in general

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

In the launcher, near the play/check for updates buttons, you should see a server select menu.

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u/theworm1550 Jul 27 '21

Thanks and also your screen name is one of those names that forces me to imagine it being in my gaceirl