Well... It's dead Jim.

[DividedSky]

Honestly the bigger issue isnt really GC, its more of when you que.

Umm, i get what you are trying to say but the imbalance IS due to GCs. I like how its split GC vs GC vs GC but now that ques have really started becoming slow i'm seeing the issue. I'd rather have really fast ques than be completely tied to a GC. They should let you que for a specific GC.. and also show you who is in the que already.... that way you know what to que for to make it faster.

[zeopower6]

I don't really care about fast queues if I can stay with the Storm. We get queues about every other game even before when it was 'the "DPS" queue' for Storm so it's not really that bad... just the issue of premades not being able to do much but we get around that in our own way.

[Red_Wolf]

I've been adders on Primal for a while. It was 15-20 minutes even on a slow night until last night. I re-queued about every half hour for 3 hours. We got into 2 FL's and one was a 24 match.

[zeopower6]

It's possible there we are being held back by Flames not having enough people queuing?

[Tilrea]

Im with Immortal flames im suffering the long que times too

[Evtrai]

The queue's used to be so fast, last week in total I got 72 matches, this week was pretty bad and on decline every day, yesterday I queue'd most of the day and only got 3 matches of 24, pretty bad.

[DividedSky]

Something it DEFINITELY wrong with the que. I was just in a 72 man. I left and requed instantly for roulette with que in progress... someone else in the same game came out AFTER me and requed and got in before me. Someone else in my linkshell had been qued for 15 mins+ and also did not even get in. Something is definitely wrong. This que system does not favor fist come first serve. I dunno what the hell it does but its broken. SE need to fix this immediately. We are all primal adders... something is broken tho. FIX THIS SH`T SE.

I think it might still be rank matching even for frontlines? That's at least one explaination for it choosing a new person with very low rank over 2 high ranked veterans that have been in que longer.. ... the other is that we got put in a smaller que that didn't fill up.... which we have no way of knowing because it doesnt f-ing show us who else is waiting in the que or what type of game we are waiting for. i.e. 8v8v8 or 24v24v24 or if its secure... or slaughter... it hides a lot of very important information that the player should be allowed to see to make a more informed decision if that is something they want to wait for or not. PLEASE PLEASE FIX THIS SE.

[zeopower6]

Im with Immortal flames im suffering the long que times too

On Primal, I mean.

[Xenosan]

... This que system does not favor fist come first serve...

This is it. Indeed, but it's not new to this recent patch. Frontline I've always gotten a pop faster if I constantly cancel and requeue the DF.

My guess is the query protocols are throwing players into dead match setups, say it'll begin forming two separate instances, some poor folks will get stuck in one that is never going to fill (or at least will fill at a much lower rate due) because the other is registering as higher priority. I always cancel > requeue after 10min or so if it's prime time hours.

[PotatoTree]

Yea I think sometimes there's a queue where it's been up for so long that people that have waited 1h drop out, then new people come in, but then 10min later the people who have waited 50min drop out, then some new people come in and the people at 40min drop out, etc. So it forms like a cycle of people dropping out and coming in.

But I think it's lost critical mass, and I've started to queue less and less.