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What happened last week?

 

1. Hired on a new developer :)

  - Engine and rendering-level stuff primarily.  Starts this week.

  - Still looking for the right senior gameplay programmer and technical artist

2. Set up a new gameserver host as a test in Istanbul

  - submit a support ticket with your experiences and thoughts

  - should we set up a new region rather than have it in the Europe region?

3. Finished migrating gameserver hosts to physical machines

4. Finished migrating to the lower-CPU-utilization server management system

  - mostly some consolidation tweaks and removing a few virtual machines still running

5. The social server took a dive last week, so we fixed it up on a better platform

6. Reduced data size in server-to-client communications

  - should decrease sync times a little

7. Started collecting client-to-server network data from volunteers

  - Early results are showing high retry rates.  We need more samples to get an idea of why though

  - If you experience long account sync times and you want to help, submit a support ticket

8. MatchMaker changes

  - Reduced server browser skill range down to +-300

  - Reduced the Skill Rating Expand Time used in MatchMaking to 330 seconds (should find better servers for very high and very low MMR players)

9. Game Balance:

  - Slightly increased turret health (both MG and Rocket)

  - Slightly reduce detection range on the Portable Scanner

10. Economy

  - Increased HC rewards on new-user achievements

  - Increased pricing on primary weapons

  - Increased max per-match HC gains

11. The Markee Fest event was really great

  - It was the first in-person event we've done, and we'll be doing more in the future

 

Let's try something a little different for feedback - submit a support ticket at https://hawken.zendesk.com.  It makes it easy to see direct feedback come in and it lets us categorize things more effectively.


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What happened last week?

 

8. MatchMaker changes

  - Reduced server browser skill range down to +-300

 

 

 

For the love of god why. Brb need to go grind tech for 12 hours straight so I can join the matches I want to. Besides, never mind me, imagine how this is going to fuzz over the high mmr players

 

 

EDIT: On a lighter note, congrats on hiring a new dev and all the other good stuff.

But seriously, what the fuzzy bunny with the mmr locking


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Not a weekly update, but good stuff nevertheless.



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11. The Markee Fest event was really great

  - It was the first in-person event we've done, and we'll be doing more in the future

 

 

How did it go btw? All I hear is that it 'wuz gud', but honestly I've got no idea what Markee Fest is except that he's a streamer and that you went to it. 


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What happened last week?

 

1. Hired on a new developer :)

  - Engine and rendering-level stuff primarily.  Starts this week.

Yay \o/ ! This makes me all waku waku!!!


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What happened last week?

 

1. Hired on a new developer :)

  - Engine and rendering-level stuff primarily.  Starts this week.

  - Still looking for the right senior gameplay programmer and technical artist

2. Set up a new gameserver host as a test in Istanbul

  - submit a support ticket with your experiences and thoughts

  - should we set up a new region rather than have it in the Europe region?

3. Finished migrating gameserver hosts to physical machines

4. Finished migrating to the lower-CPU-utilization server management system

  - mostly some consolidation tweaks and removing a few virtual machines still running

5. The social server took a dive last week, so we fixed it up on a better platform

6. Reduced data size in server-to-client communications

  - should decrease sync times a little

7. Started collecting client-to-server network data from volunteers

  - Early results are showing high retry rates.  We need more samples to get an idea of why though

  - If you experience long account sync times and you want to help, submit a support ticket

8. MatchMaker changes

  - Reduced server browser skill range down to +-300

  - Reduced the Skill Rating Expand Time used in MatchMaking to 330 seconds (should find better servers for very high and very low MMR players)

9. Game Balance:

  - Slightly increased turret health (both MG and Rocket)

  - Slightly reduce detection range on the Portable Scanner

10. Economy

  - Increased HC rewards on new-user achievements

  - Increased pricing on primary weapons

  - Increased max per-match HC gains

11. The Markee Fest event was really great

  - It was the first in-person event we've done, and we'll be doing more in the future

 

Let's try something a little different for feedback - submit a support ticket at https://hawken.zendesk.com.  It makes it easy to see direct feedback come in and it lets us categorize things more effectively.

 

 

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1.- Oh yesh!

 

2.- I'd suggest creating a new region or making quite clear that the server/s is/are located in Turkey in the browser's list.

 

3, 4, 5.- Let's see how the game runs here now on.

 

... Good, good and good. ;)

 

*/

 

Edit: Zendesk, Ok.


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Doesn't matter for me if it's clear or not where those servers are, if they're the highest-MMR TDM in EU I'll be forced to join that one because of the MMR restrictions which they made even stricter now.

I should also mention that both Frankfurt and Amsterdam servers are total fuzzybunny for some people.
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330 seconds for the max wait time and an initial range of ±300 is far too restrictive especially since people get put into servers with unplayable ping half the time using the matchmaker. Almost every high-MMR player is going to smurf again outside of organized play.
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For the love of god why. Brb need to go grind tech for 12 hours straight so I can join the matches I want to. Besides, never mind me, imagine how this is going to fuzz over the high mmr players


Read it again, and this time pay attention to the specific words used.
 

8. MatchMaker changes
  - Reduced server browser skill range down to +-300
  - Reduced the Skill Rating Expand Time used in MatchMaking to 330 seconds (should find better servers for very high and very low MMR players)

Yeah, its SERVER BROWSER fitness range, notice it doesn't say matchmaking queue.  That means its only a lock out when someone tries to enter a lobby by server browser that is OUTSIDE that range.  The simple fact is, if you are +-300 then there will be no problems manually joining a game.  There is still the possibility that you could use the match making queue and get placed into that game.

 

It doesn't fuzz over the high MMR players, it prevents anyone out of the acceptance range from joining a lobby manually that they don't belong in.  Notice theres very little preventing them from clicking the match making queue and entering the same lobby anyways.  You just can't do it as easily by command.

 

 

 

330 seconds for the max wait time and an initial range of ±300 is far too restrictive especially since people get put into servers with unplayable ping half the time using the matchmaker. Almost every high-MMR player is going to smurf again outside of organized play.

 

Again, not +-300 for matchmaking, its only for manual joins by the server browser. 

 

Quit freaking out and making a big deal about something that isn't written.


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Read it again, and this time pay attention to the specific words used.
 

Yeah, its SERVER BROWSER fitness range, notice it doesn't say matchmaking queue.  That means its only a lock out when someone tries to enter a lobby by server browser that is OUTSIDE that range.  The simple fact is, if you are +-300 then there will be no problems manually joining a game.  There is still the possibility that you could use the match making queue and get placed into that game.

 

It doesn't fuzz over the high MMR players, it prevents anyone out of the acceptance range from joining a lobby manually that they don't belong in.  Notice theres very little preventing them from clicking the match making queue and entering the same lobby anyways.  You just can't do it as easily by command.

 

 

 

 

Again, not +-300 for matchmaking, its only for manual joins by the server browser. 

 

Quit freaking out and making a big deal about something that isn't written.

 

No, I read it correctly. I am fully aware that it is manual join via server browser that is being locked here.


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if i'm not wrong , German is the best game server host .i played some best FPS popular game in EU server .all the games i 'have played in German's servers and they r famous for host .

 

now a days all server performance are  worst  .don't know am i alone or everyone have the same problem .sorry 



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No, I read it correctly. I am fully aware that it is manual join via server browser that is being locked here.

 

Changes like the above don't just happen willy nilly, I'm sure Josh looked at the data and decided something needed to be done for whatever reason.  Maybe it was done because it benefits other players, and not just the 1% club.

 

You can always join a private server to play with your buddies when you want to join a lobby that is out of your range.

 

I'm sorry you disagree, but in the end I'm sure Josh has read your many complaints and taken them into account.  Just let him fix things, please.


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Again, not +-300 for matchmaking, its only for manual joins by the server browser. 

 

Quit freaking out and making a big deal about something that isn't written.

 

That doesn't really change that people aren't going to want to wait 10 minutes to get into a playable server that will then likely disband after the first game. Even if it was 300 instead of 500 (?) for MM, that would be a lot less significant than the increased wait time combined with the current lack of options for picking where you'll end up. You can personally disagree with how important this change is for the general playerbase, but it will almost certainly increase smurfing among top players and indirectly impact others through inaccurate balancing. 


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Okay, say there are a few servers with players in them: one at 2200, a few full ones between that and 1600, and then one at 1550. Instead of being able to select the one at 2200 like I normally would (assuming I checked herokuapp first), I get placed into the 1550 average one. That's not a lobby I want to be in, nor is it one that I should be in.

 

The idea of an mmr lock only works if there is enough population to support it.


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I feel like we've seen justification for the whole "post your feedback in a ticket" thing already.


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I guess if I end up in 1500 mmr servers and they complain that im ruining the game for them, ill give them Josh's email address? "Hey man, dont blame me, its all by design!" According to dev's this is a 'legitimate match' for me.



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That doesn't really change that people aren't going to want to wait 10 minutes to get into a playable server that will then likely disband after the first game. Even if it was 300 instead of 500 (?) for MM, that would be a lot less significant than the increased wait time combined with the current lack of options for picking where you'll end up. You can personally disagree with how important this change is for the general playerbase, but it will almost certainly increase smurfing among top players and indirectly impact others through inaccurate balancing. 

 

Jeff, where do you get 10 minutes from?

 

330 seconds / 60 seconds in a minute = 5.5 minutes with my calculations.

 

I understand people don't want to wait, but thats something that you have to deal with as there isn't a valid server for you to join at that time.  I'm sure after that 5.5 minute timer counts down it will dump whoever into whatever game it thinks is the best one, no matter the MMR differential.

 

 

Okay, say there are a few servers with players in them: one at 2200, a few full ones between that and 1600, and then one at 1550. Instead of being able to select the one at 2200 like I normally would (assuming I checked herokuapp first), I get placed into the 1550 average one. That's not a lobby I want to be in, nor is it one that I should be in.

 

The idea of an mmr lock only works if there is enough population to support it.

 

Then get your MMR to the level that you are supposed to be at then.  Its really a simple fix you can do all by yourself.

 

I love how you constantly fault the game for blocking you (and others), but you give the excuse that the MMR calculations don't represent your skills accurately.  lol.  Why not focus your attention on and complain about a better MMR identification routine then constantly fuzzy bunny about unlocking?


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Then get your MMR to the level that you are supposed to be at then.  Its really a simple fix you can do all by yourself.

 

I completely retract my previous post.  Who knew the thread would come to produce the perfect solution to all our matchmaking woes?


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can anyone give me a reason why unlocking the servers would be a bad thing? what would be so bad about the matchmaking changes being kept but also just unlock the server browser again? just display your mmr like it used to and and show the server average mmr like it used to. that way i can just organize the browser from highest to lowest. what is so bad about this? anyone?


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the hawken population doesnt really have the numbers to support such a narrow band of mmr selection. it is most certainly going to increase the use of smurfs as a lot of people dont lie in the ranges that people need. its allready at the point where i am throne in with the noobs and told GLHF by the MM. 


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can anyone give me a reason why unlocking the servers would be a bad thing? what would be so bad about the matchmaking changes being kept but also just unlock the server browser again? just display your mmr like it used to and and show the server average mmr like it used to. that way i can just organize the browser from highest to lowest. what is so bad about this? anyone?

 

This works, contingent on ditching the matchmaker as well. Don't want people checking into lobbies blind.



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can anyone give me a reason why unlocking the servers would be a bad thing? what would be so bad about the matchmaking changes being kept but also just unlock the server browser again? just display your mmr like it used to and and show the server average mmr like it used to. that way i can just organize the browser from highest to lowest. what is so bad about this? anyone?

 

This would allow the secret high mmr cabal to band together and pubstomp. No one would be safe from their your wrath. NO ONE


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I want to report that on the attempt of joining any 3 star server lately it prevents me from joining giving me that "the server is not accepting players at this time," message. When I then resort to using the queue, it almost always puts me into a server that is sub-optimal compared to the servers I could have been put into. Earlier I had a 3 star Kansas city with eight players as well as a 3 star los Angeles server with 4 players and it ended up putting me into an ashburn server that moments ago wasn't even 1 star rated and as I entered I saw many names of players I didn't recognize. When the match ended up starting I would gague at that point it would have been no more than 1 star for me. Plus there was a brand spanking new smurf on that server. The smurf thing is getting on my nerves because a great number of people who have and do smurf often would be able to get a game seeing as I had 3 star servers open. it's like people don't try anymore and just resort to an alt account every time and exasperate the problem.



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exasperate the problem.

exacerbate perhaps?


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More than likely. I don't go all out on proofreading my posts. To make worse is how I intended it to come across.


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More than likely. I don't go all out on proofreading my posts. To make worse is how I intended it to come across.

 

Not trying to nitpick, I just like the word exacerbate, which is indeed what you meant here.


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@Flifang
Could be the server browser bugging and displaying servers as 3-star while they're rolling over to a new map, perhaps?
I personally use herokuapp to check for servers instead of the server browser itself due to that bug.
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can anyone give me a reason why unlocking the servers would be a bad thing? what would be so bad about the matchmaking changes being kept but also just unlock the server browser again? just display your mmr like it used to and and show the server average mmr like it used to. that way i can just organize the browser from highest to lowest. what is so bad about this? anyone?

 

I already stated a valid reason.

 

It doesn't fuzz over the high MMR players, it prevents anyone out of the acceptance range from joining a lobby manually that they don't belong in.  Notice theres very little preventing them from clicking the match making queue and entering the same lobby anyways.  You just can't do it as easily by command.

 

 

Again, one could manually join a game they are unfit for at their will

 

What would prevent you from joining a 1250 average lobby instead of the highest one available in your example?  NOTHING.  I think you are smart enough to conclude and can understand how easy it would be to prey and exploit lower MMR players and boost your own stats while doing it.  Not everyone would do exactly as you.


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Coming from a higher MMR perspective, these changes to the MMR bounds for finding a match are treading in the wrong direction. There are too many times I've counted that MM has placed me in a 1750 MMR server with only 4 people in it, whereas I would have been better off in a 2150 server that was indeed available—but not really, since you're locked out in manual joining. They need to prioritize ping and MMR above all else.

 

Relying on the matchmaker to join a server is not the greatest idea for us, since it will never guarantee the desired match. There are hardly any servers acceptable for pilots that have 2400+ MMR. These changes ensure we wait for as long as possible, until finally placing us in a 1500-1800 server. None of the current players in that server want to be stomped, and I'm sure that the higher MMR pilot doesn't want to stomp either.

 

With that in mind, the best solution for now would be to either change MM logic to prioritize MMR and ping, or to increase or remove the MMR restrictions for manual joining.


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2. Set up a new gameserver host as a test in Istanbul

  - submit a support ticket with your experiences and thoughts

  - should we set up a new region rather than have it in the Europe region?

 

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9. Game Balance:

  - Slightly increased turret health (both MG and Rocket)

  - Slightly reduce detection range on the Portable Scanner

 

How much is "slightly"?


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Jeff, where do you get 10 minutes from?

 

330 seconds / 60 seconds in a minute = 5.5 minutes with my calculations.

 

I understand people don't want to wait, but thats something that you have to deal with as there isn't a valid server for you to join at that time.  I'm sure after that 5.5 minute timer counts down it will dump whoever into whatever game it thinks is the best one, no matter the MMR differential.

 

Because a lot of people have issues with the servers in particular US cities that are bad enough to make the game more frustrating than fun. I won't play in LA anymore since 140 ping with awful hitreg and rubberbanding feels like I'm fighting the game itself more than the other team. Frankfurt is somehow a much better experience for me, and I live in the middle of the US. There's currently no way to filter specific cities out, so I either repeatedly queue for TDM and hope a new server comes up in the wait time if LA has the highest average MMR server on heroku, pick a different mode (if there's even one with populated matches) where another city has a server with a higher MMR than the ones in LA, or play another game.


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I already stated a valid reason.

 

 

Again, one could manually join a game they are unfit for at their will

 

What would prevent you from joining a 1250 average lobby instead of the highest one available in your example?  NOTHING.  I think you are smart enough to conclude and can understand how easy it would be to prey and exploit lower MMR players and boost your own stats while doing it.  Not everyone would do exactly as you.

 

i can already do this now. just make another free account and smurf. atleast with returning it to the way it was i could join an empty lobby and people could actually join in. dont know how long you have been around but back when server browser had mmr and was unlocked there where regular 2400-2500+ mmr servers. why? because people could see the average and would flock to that server. the way it is now if i join an empty server NO ONE IS GOING TO JOIN.

 

so basically we still have the same problems but now people with higher mmr are just being punished for putting time into the game


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What happened last week?

 

1. Hired on a new developer :)

  - Engine and rendering-level stuff primarily.  Starts this week.

  - Still looking for the right senior gameplay programmer and technical artist

9. Game Balance:

  - Slightly increased turret health (both MG and Rocket)

  - Slightly reduce detection range on the Portable Scanner

10. Economy

  - Increased HC rewards on new-user achievements

  - Increased pricing on primary weapons

  - Increased max per-match HC gains

 

 

On Developer:

This is really great news to see that things are picking up a little!

 

On Balance:

Good steps so far!  Tho, personally I'd have the Scanner only detect when the enemy isn't blocked by a wall or something with a low range.

 

On Economy:

Why oh why did you increase the price on weapons?  They were expensive enough as it was...  It's either weapons or a mech, and that's just darn too ridiculous to choose between for anyone. D:  Even more so than now due to precious players.  I really hope the increase in gaining HC covers enough.


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#36
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What happened last week?

9. Game Balance:

  - Slightly reduce detection range on the Portable Scanner

 

 

 

 

You've ruined the game for me


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You've ruined the game for me

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#38
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Unlocking the servers and showing mmr would let the skilled players seek each other easily and would allow players who want a challenge to join the server too. When I was first playing the game that's the only way I learned anything, join the high mmr lobby and get your ass handed to you for a while. I doubt any new player actually gets to experience hawken for what it really is because all their games are decided by a plethora of stupid issues. 

 

Here's a fun experiment to try at home:

 

1. Take a 2400 mmr account and place it in an empty lobby.

 

2. Watch as nothing happens!

 

3. You can literally surf the internet for hours without a game actually starting!

 

4. ??????

 

5. profit


Edited by LoC_TR, 04 August 2015 - 08:10 PM.

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You've ruined the game for me

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Vomit cause you know its true. Scanners are the number 1 best item ever. Totes legit






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