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[G4L4H4D]

This game has so many countdowns leading to countdowns... what happened to the good ol' days of gaming where you'd click on a game and would play the selected game with MAYBE a couple seconds to wait or at least just the queue time if matchmaking was involved?  I'm not asking for much here, and it might even be a feature that I have yet to find because I just started playing not long ago but can we lower the wait time? Makes having installed that game on an SSD feel like a total waste.

Perhaps having debrief screens on PC be, say, staying for ''as little as'' 30 seconds instead of 60 seconds would be nice. I mean, it's already like this for console.

I swear I sometimes feel like I spend more time pre-match and post-match staring at countdowns than I spent playing the actual freakin' match.

[Amidatelion]

The debrief time is definitely an issue, the rest of the times are kinda non-negotiable in a modern team-based shooter.

[coldform]

lol.  hawken has:

1. a 10 second countdown when "deploying" to a server from the queue(non-existant when choosing a server from the browser)
2. a countdown in the lobby before the map spins up
3. a countdown before the match actually starts
4. the match time
5. debriefing countdown ( before going back to step 2)

titanfall 2 has:

1. invitation countdown - to let those invited time to join the party
2. pre-queue countdown before MM starts up
3. waiting for a FULL roster
4. waiting for a server instance to start
5. pre-match countdown
6. match time
7. EPILOGUE TIME - will always take the same amount of time, destroying the evac ship takes just as long.
8. post-mach debrief. after this, NO MATTER WHAT, the server does not carry over, and if you're in a PUG game, the WHOLE process starts over.

the ONLY timer in hawken that drags on too long is the debrief. while I agree that it should be shortened, the turnaround time between matches in hawken is MUCH shorter than other games. good pugs can stay alive this way as well.

 

I spend more time out of match than I do actually playing tfall2.  if a server where to stay populated in hawken. you can play a handful of matches back to back with much less time in between.

Edited by coldform, 17 December 2016 - 11:20 AM.