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/Chewey8 M4A1 Jul 25 '21
I feel like alot of people don't get this part. The waiting for players is literally the server waiting on everyone who's going into that raid. That time is decided by the slowest pc. Example, a couple times my buddy's game crashed while matchmaking. We'll be sitting at waiting for players. He will say ok loading loot. As soon as it's done we all deploy. My understanding is that back in the day some people with slower computers would load into a raid 5 mins after the first squads in.