Did this game die on release? Found plenty of matches during closed and open beta but now that it’s released there’s nothing.
Definatley not, i’m finding matches left and right. Check your connection. Otherwise, what platform are you playing on?
I find a full party within 10-20 seconds, you may want to reset your connection.
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On PC
The problem is that the game will ONLY match you with people from your own country. They haven’t implemented regions. The game determines this by using your “download site” in Steam. So, for instance, I’m from Canada and it takes 25 minutes for me to find a match because it will only match me with people from Canada.
I switched my download region to a location in the United States and suddenly I was finding matches in 2 minutes or less.
Huh. For real ? That sounds… Weird, somehow.
And if you join a small party that still needs one or two players, I suppose it will look at the download region of the group leader ?
Hmmm, I’m from Hungary, and I weren’t in queue more than 2 mins so far. Also, last time I went to PvP got matched with two French players, so I think it doesn’t only matches from your own country. Honestly, never met other Hungarians yet either in PvP or Story mode matchmaking.
I don’t know how that works. But it’s been confirmed by a bunch of people on Reddit and I switched my region just to see if it worked. It did. I checked the Steam profiles of everyone I matched with for 3 games while I had my download site set to Canada. All of them had Canada in their Steam profile. When I switched download regions, all of the people’s steam profiles were suddenly in the States.
Which is really disappointing. I know about this but a bunch of other people won’t and they are going to give up on the game because they are waiting forever to get into a game.
If I hadn’t discovered this, I was about THIS close to giving up on it myself.
Well im from Israel, and i never found even one more player for pvp. just once somehow there was a guy with me in story mode. its really disappointing. playing such game by yourself.
It could just be that the regions are set very small. I know some people on Reddit were saying that people from New Zealand were not being matched with people from Australia so New Zealand players were waiting ages to get a game. Most games use servers that are common to both those countries.
And most games use North American servers. But it seems there’s either a bug that makes certain countries not match with nearby countries or they were really conservative on making sure ping times were good.
Im level 50, located in germany, PC.
I q up most of the time with NA guys or as you said switch the location in steam settings. The good thing ist with NA + EU Guys in the same Q, that you get guys in NA + EU at the same time.
Meltdown and Capure is usually found fast, but incursion especially between 7-11 am is like no way. Also kinda sad, that worldwide for example right now just around 5000~ players are playing it on steam (PC). The highest user at the same time in the last days were around 9000-10000 :(.
Thats hella bad for a new game. For example sometimes Borderlands 2, Age of Empires 2 or Euro Truck Simulator got MORE players than Battleborn.
I hope this will rise soon.
Greetings,
Thorben
No issues on XBox1 - plenty of gamers online, never took longer than 40sec to find a team.
All this “No players / Matchmaking sucks” issues seem to count for Steam/PC formost.
Just because Steam sucks Battleborn won´t die. Alot of games would have died if thats a condition.
Lets just hope that the Steam-community does not grow toxic before minor after-release bugs are fixed.
If people want to forsake Battleborn already - its their loss.
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I guess this might be the reason. If it is, then there are 2 solutions: either they involve more servers through the world (ie. Australians report issues with latency repeatedly) or just set the ‘safe latency zone’ a bit higher, let’s say from 50 ms to 100 or 150.
Take a look at the other replies in this section. apparently you have to change your download region in the steam settings to fix it. I’m sure it will be patched later down the line.
Hope so, pretty poor that I can’t connect to a 20ms server because the game thinks I’m in the wrong “region”.
Agreed. This problem does not exist on consoles. I’m from the Netherlands and get queued with Americans and Brits a lot. I’m quite happy with that since I speak the English language, contrary to Spanish or French.
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Gearbox always had a very weird history with Steam. I’m not really surprised the PC community seems to be the one having these issues.
I still remember being unable to play coop in Borderlands 2, or being thrown out of the game, because I lost connection to Steam servers. Heck, it was infernal during the first days after launch because the Steam servers were constantly going down. We just couldn’t play. For most games that includes any kind of MP, loosing connection to Steam doesn’t immediately put a halt to any and all activities inside the game, it just… Looses connection.
So AFAIK, this is on Gearbox and their netcode or Steam implementation. I can understand the region thing, but if it works without that restriction on console why couldn’t it work on PC ? Maybe it’s because of Steam ? Can’t say. But it’s definitely an issue, and probably the one biggest issue Battleborn is having right now, at launch.
If your from australia and having server based problems please move a comments to this thread cheers. Australian Servers Issues (Post Your Data Here)
Not from Australia, thanks.