Friday, March 26, 2010

Matchmaking!

*I just contacted S2Crew from the forums about this massive rage, please visit the thread 
  here :
  Hope we can get the best answer there.


Hey guys,

After a long wait, matchmaking is here. We've got tons of players playing tons of matchmaking games and we're thrilled to finally get it out to you guys.


That said, please understand that we are NOT done developing our matchmaking. We're still optimizing it, getting it to replace dropped players more efficiently, and making tweaks to make sure it matches players accurately. We reached a point in development where we needed a much larger userbase to efficiently develop our matchmaking further, and so here it is It'll take a few weeks for everyone's solo matchmaking rating to become accurate, so do expect that you won't be getting matched with players of your skill level right away.

We also have plans on the horizon for team match making and the like - the first step was just getting solo matchmaking in. We don't have any sort of ETA on these extra features yet, just know that they are very important to us and we will absolutely be adding them eventually. Most of the work is actually already done - team matchmaking is actually easier for us to implement, it's the tool surround team match making (team finder tools and the like) that'll take some time.

We hope you guys enjoy the match making, and we appreciate any feedback or general impressions you may have as we continue to optimize and improve it. Please note that many of these improvements will be done server-side - meaning you won't even need to download a patch.


Fielding
S2 Staff Member

7 comments:

Suguimoto said...

It´s working fine here. Me and my friend got a lot of issues, the most obvious is that the interface is too complicated and confused, small icons and so on. I beleive the old one was easier to play. I hope you guys improve the user interface before the final release. Thank you and Great Job with HON!

Anonymous said...

Little issue on inventory sometime it locks on the green crosshair and cant swap items from stash of it will be fixed.

Anonymous said...

Hope match making can be configured to 1v1, 2v2 ... 5v5

Anonymous said...

Kasper here.
Matchmaking is really awesome. im enjoying it alot. Im not sure if its because im on europe or what ever, but sometimes i wait up to 10min. to find a game. Is that normal or specific for EU. Otherwise no complaints.

Anonymous said...

It's so fucking shit it can't even be described in words. You wait for 10 mins for the last player, who discs, you queue again and wait around 20 minutes for the game to start and all the players to join. If you're so lucky to get 10 players who don't disc/leave during the matchmaking phase, you'll probably end up with some clueless idiot choosing the wrong starting rating.
Sometimes it even goes into ultra freezemode where you're waiting endlessly for the last player in hopes that he might show up any minut, only to give up 20 minutes later because it's fucked... S2Games, you really fucked up on this one. It brings more pain than enjoyment.

Anonymous said...

+1 to the post before this one.

Anonymous said...

+ 1 to Aug. 9, 2010 post... fail MM times dude... disable lobby for 1 week see how happy players are...

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