State of Battleborn X1......not looking good

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#17

You seem to be a fan of over-exaggerating. X1 fanbase isnā€™t low, itā€™s just not crazy high. If a queue is going on for 15 minutes, itā€™s not going to find you a match. Not in 10 either. Just leave and come back, thatā€™s an issue in just about every multiplayer game.

As for the loading data bugā€¦ that sucksā€¦ I guess? Iā€™ve never had it once, though Iā€™m on ps4, and Iā€™m not sure if itā€™s just exclusive to the Xbone.

Like @VaultHunter101 said, itā€™s not exactly an easy problem to fix if it doesnā€™t affect everyone the same way.

Itā€™s like wack-a-mole, but the playing field is several thousand feet long, ya know? You can quote me on that, too. :kissing_heart:

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#18

I should also mention that there have been a few instances on X1 where Iā€™m waiting for a match for 3-5 minutes and it never finds even a single player to join me. If that happens, I reset the game and when I come back I find a game right away. It must be a bug or something. It shouldnā€™t happen, granted, but it does. If youā€™re waiting a really long time and donā€™t connect with any players, try restarting.

Iā€™ve also noticed that if Iā€™m in a party and itā€™s taking a while to find an opponent team, backing out of the search and then going back into the queue will often speed things up.

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#19

Im on xbox an ive never waited longer then 10 mins for a match or to find players when doin PVE an thats almost always at like 7am when theres considerabllly less people on.

#20

I took about two weeks off from playing Battleborn on the Xbox; I was having 5 to 10 minute wait times. Never had that before.

#21

Exactly! Iā€™m from Australia and during the week night I may get an Incursion match after 10pm otherwise itā€™s the weekends that I can only reliably find a consistent amount of matches. Not everyone considers that there are actually other regions that donā€™t fare as well.

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#22

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#23

Xbox population is fine, though as noted by some, matches are horribly one-sided 90% of the time. Itā€™s a shame, but thereā€™s not much to be done until a true competitive system (hopefully with tangible rankings and incentives to do well) is released.

My suggestion is to stick with it, however frustrating or monotonous it may be - when/if a ranked or competitive playlist is released, those who return after weeks/months of playing other games might find themselves unpleasantly challenged :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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#24

this should be looked into as it is not normal :expressionless:

#25

Just want to say, it takes me just as long to find a match on battleborn as it does to find a match on call of duty black ops 3. Just comes down to when you search, especially now since all the school people are back at school subtly shifting peak times.
I would like to see a free weekend, however. More players is always a good thing, especially now since many of the character balancing issues have been resolved (i know there are many more but they dont allow players to 1 or 2 man/woman carry).

#26

Totally agree. Itā€™s been happening since launch. Others have mentioned it
so I would assume Gearbox saw it and either hasnā€™t been able to fix it or
hasnā€™t tried.

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#27

Did you submit a support ticket? Itā€™s a more direct way of bringing issues to the devs attention, and gives them an opportunity to try and identify patterns that might isolate the cause.

#28

Is that in Incursion though? Because the wait for Incursion is much, MUCH lower than Capture and Meltdown.

#29

[XBO] Europe/Germany here.

I had the command centre bug one time and then never again and wait times in the incursion queue are never longer than 1-5min.

But it seems the PvE playerbase is lower than one or two weeks ago ā€¦ on the other side i see alot of low CR players around. But there also happen strange things in the PvE queues ā€¦ i think the matchmaking engine assembles the teams too fast sometimes. So i end up 3 times in a row with 2/5 , then i leave and after this i get a completeley dfferent team 5/5.

Best regards.

#30

I just played Overwatch, as part of its free weekend, and it made me appreciate BB more haha. The queue times were much faster, but then the game would end about 1 or 2 minutes in due to not having enough players. 1 in about 5 games actually went through and were played to completion. Realistically I was waiting 10-20 minutes to play an actual full game. I rarely wait that long on BB, usually anywhere from 2-10 minutes.

Also, character wise, BB was much more fun and better varied. OW opening scene made me worried because it was very charming and fun. I wanted to like OW, but Iā€™m happy to say, that in my opinion, BB takes the cake.

I do think a free weekend or something would draw players in and convince some to buy and become regular Battleborn. Gearbox humor is just so clever and they create charming characters and interactions. I think the real trick is that GBX needs to change the way they do matchmaking. Just find 10 players and then distribute them as evenly CR as possible. I know it wonā€™t always be even, because of parties, but I think it would help a lot with the speed of MM and make us fee better about the group weā€™re with.

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#31

I tried OW too, my motivation doing this was never really great, because i did apprehent that OW is missing all things, beside being a hero ā€œshooterā€, i love so much about BB. Then i played OW and my suspects became facts to me and it was worse than i thought. While the characters design & presentation is excellent ( but so is BB ) the whole character -setup is so family-friendly and Disneyā€™esque that i got bored fast and this on top of all the missing things like coop PvE, skilltrees ( aka Helix ), lore achievements and all that stuff you see in BB. Then the game has no lore build ingame AND i wonder why reviewers and gamers often complain about how bad this is all in BBs story-missions and such ā€¦ and then compare both games and praise OW, what happened to professional game reviewing lately?!

I have really no idea why most reviewers bashed BB and praised OW and why this game is so hyped all about the world. It is BB minus cooperative PvE story -missions, skilltrees ( aka Helix ), lore -achievements, weird characters & black humor and more.

I allways thought about buying OW when the price drops around 20,- Euros on XBO but now i have my doubts.

Best regards.

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#32

IGN says battleborns PVE is repetitive while overwatch has none and only has like 3 modes which dont get repetitive? they arenā€™t very different from one another.
I believe they also said somewhere BB has a lack of content but they said nothing about that to over-watch which clearly had sooooo much less content.
Reviewers are biased or bribed clearly though using IGN as an example mightā€™ve been bad, we all know there an ugly company by now. :+1:

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#33

Okay, letā€™s not make this into another BB Vs OW thread, please.

from here

#34

The Xbox playerbase seems fine to me, it takes me almost no time at all to be put into a match. The only modes I spend quite some time in queue for are Capture and PvE Advanced. But I do eventually find matches for everything.

I have noticed a lot of rage quitters lately. Some leaving immediately after our first sentry gets 1 point of damage in Incursion. Not so many in Meltdown, hardly any in story.

A free weekend would be cool, maybe the weekend after the first DLC operation drops to really hype it up. Hopefully we have matchmaking adjustments before then.

#35

Same here, X1 too.

#36

Iā€™ve played several incursion matches over the weekend and found that too - most surprising was a CR100 with a title like Angel of Death (it was one of those really hard to get ones) - as soon as our sentry got hit he called for surrender, when it didnā€™t pass he disconnected straight away. Something Iā€™d expect from newer players, not someone who would have hours into the gameā€¦

Side note: Iā€™m pumped for the DLC operation coming out!

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