Its 2:30am and I am waiting over 10 minutes for a match (I have tried both Loyalist and Chaos factions- they seem to be the same queue) Since patch 17 there have been much longer wait times for both factions. Before 17 there was sometimes a wait for one or the other faction but never as long as it has been presently.

Something has regressed with generating the matches and then in populating them. The balance is often off at the start by more than 3 or 4 sometimes 2:1. If you are on the lowest number factions these matches are never winnable after starting with so much of a deficit.

You know.

This is just a thought. But perhaps you're waiting longer in queue because fewer people are playing? I've certainly been playing less as a result of the stability bugs. It's frustrating to spend several minutes loading in, pick a loadout, freeze while loading into the world for another 15 seconds, run around a bit and then lock up. So I've just been waiting for more hotfixes/patches to resume playing.

I know for a fact other people are experiencing this as well, and it's not a wild impossibility that they are also playing less as a result.

Yah that's a possibility but I notice it more even primetime hours. Matchmaking just seems broke a lot of the time.

It throws you into queues when matches are uneven on players, I don't think it's working to be honest.I got a queue message and when I got ingame there was at least 6 slots that could have been filled.

Yah I'm in a match right now that I had to wait 5 mins for that 8 vs 4

There's a way to get steam to tell you how many people are currently playin (though I myself don't know how). It's pretty easy to use the total number of people playing to determine how many matches are currently going.

That being said, I do think a lot less people are playing lately because of the excessive bugs.

I don't know whether you know, but during silent ours there are only sever dozens of dudes playing EC. Mostly 1 full skirmish match and several others with extremely uneven or non-existent game.

Playing before last patch was much shorter downtimes all around. Could be due to population and bugs- I will wait and see.

It just seems off since the last patch. I don't know what they look for exactly to make a match. I know that faction balance was one of the things they changed but I think that something else might have broken when they made this change.

I only find the wait is longer if I try and select a specific battle type.
For example I listened to half a deep purple album trying to get on a grand battle before giving up and selecting battle now