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Aug 18, 2012, 17:37

xXBatmanXx wrote on Aug 18, 2012, 13:58: TF2 MvM is infuriating.......takes forever to get into a game, and now it is crashing on loadup "connectino failed after 4 tries". On top of that: 3623 in queue 315 EMPTY SERVERS 193 ACTIVE SERVERS WTF@? Fire off those empty servers! For me, playing MvM seems to be a case of: * sitting waiting forever to get into a game * Server is old version / bad challenge / whatever * sitting waiting forever to get into a game * repeat the above X times * finally get in * have anywhere 3-6 players then either a) - * we get ridiculously steamrolled * spend about same time in warmup as the round lasts * players keep quitting / joining, no cohesion at all * we get ridiculously steamrolled * repeat above X times * I quit * sitting waiting forever to get into a game ... or b) it lands on normal decoy, * we steamroll the machines, * game over in no time. * sitting waiting forever to get into a game ... Spent most of the day (it's 10pm here), a rare day free to myself to do wtf I fee like, "playing" MvM. Out of that, maybe 30mins total of reasonable quality play time. Seems to break down to 2 issues. Firstly the matchmaking, okay it's being hammered but I can't help thinking the matchmaker is shit. Particularly since there's a lot of free servers and a lot of time in game with less than 6 players. Secondly, the gameplay... I think Valve has targeted 6 Steam friends playing a game together. For everyone else playing with random people, this means we probably need about 9 players in order to average about the same effectiveness. Decoy ain't so bad because it's small and choked, advanced Mannworks, just forget it. it's be nice if there was a search option for any map for specified difficulty.

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Comment [quote="DG"Aug 18, 2012, 17:37][quote="xXBatmanXx"Aug 18, 2012, 13:58]TF2 MvM is infuriating.......takes forever to get into a game, and now it is crashing on loadup "connectino failed after 4 tries". On top of that: 3623 in queue 315 EMPTY SERVERS 193 ACTIVE SERVERS WTF@? Fire off those empty servers! [/quote] For me, playing MvM seems to be a case of: * sitting waiting forever to get into a game * Server is old version / bad challenge / whatever * sitting waiting forever to get into a game * repeat the above X times * finally get in * have anywhere 3-6 players then either a) - * we get ridiculously steamrolled * spend about same time in warmup as the round lasts * players keep quitting / joining, no cohesion at all * we get ridiculously steamrolled * repeat above X times * I quit * sitting waiting forever to get into a game ... or b) it lands on normal decoy, * we steamroll the machines, * game over in no time. * sitting waiting forever to get into a game ... Spent most of the day (it's 10pm here), a rare day free to myself to do wtf I fee like, "playing" MvM. Out of that, maybe 30mins total of reasonable quality play time. Seems to break down to 2 issues. Firstly the matchmaking, okay it's being hammered but I can't help thinking the matchmaker is shit. Particularly since there's a lot of free servers and a lot of time in game with less than 6 players. Secondly, the gameplay... I think Valve has targeted 6 Steam friends playing a game together. For everyone else playing with random people, this means we probably need about 9 players in order to average about the same effectiveness. Decoy ain't so bad because it's small and choked, advanced Mannworks, just forget it. it's be nice if there was a search option for any map for specified difficulty. [/quote]

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