Yes annother post about the lacking lobby. We need to get a blue post on this at least so the issue is acknowledged.
As of right now the lobby is a massive letdown and just ruins the overall experience that was so awesome in D2.
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Lobby is filled with old games & trade games.
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Making it really hard to find a specific game. You can search for baal-runs for a good few minutes and only get old games. If you create a baal-run game yourself it takes very long time before it gets filled. Im guessing there is some kind of delay or its random if the game appears in the lobby.
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It takes way to long time to load information about how old the game is or how many players are in the game. By that time the specific game just dissapears for the lobby. Which is annoying as hell. Games you mark in the lobby shouldn´t randomly just dissapear unless everyone left and the game got closed down.
A simple filter that lets us filter games by name and time would be an amazing quickfix that would improve the overall experience by alot. While we are waiting for a bigger rework.
Right now the lobby frustrates me to the point where i just decide to go and play solo instead of wasting 10 minutes finding a game.
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The lobby is 100 steps backwards. Its absolute dogcrap and needs fixing asap. Game searching…seeing the same games over and over…games that are 2 hours old lol
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Agreed. The lobby in D2 was already pretty bad and I hoped for a modern interface for easier finding of games. Instead it somehow got even worse.
Why are only ~15 games shown? Why can’t I see more at a time?
Why can’t I filter for games or game names?
Why are games not categorized, e.g. baal run?
Why are games still shown when the objective was already killed (e.g. baal)?
Why is creating a game for trading an item still a thing, including typing what you want into the limited game name? This feels incredibly clunky.
I could go on and on…
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It will be good if i can see my last game name in the Lobby.
When i have a disconnect ( or a game crash, see the other issues at this website…) i can not found the old game again. I dont remember the name.
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For me everything is a step backwards from original D2 since as OP mentioned almost every game is old and outdated as soon as it pops up, making it almost impossible to decently run Baal or even quest since when you join Act 1 Andy they will mostly be in Maggot Lair when you finally join.
In addition a small but neat feature was that as far as I remember the game filled in the name of the game you clicked on into the box for game name, meaning that you can click on e.g. Baalxp-1, have the name displayed in the game name box, mark it, copy it and then join the game. As soon as you enter and see for example that the run is almost over or just ending, you could use the copied game name in clipboard and paste it into the game name box and correct it to Baalxp-2 quickly to join faster. Right now I have to manually type the game name into chat after joining, mark and copy it to have the same effect. I guess at least the chat is copy pastable now (was not in original D2 as far as I remember)
This would feel like a huge improvement to me for running consecutive games or quickly change characters to join the same game again
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I suggested this all ready and a solution way back in beta was to have Cain reset areas so we’re not massive spamming games like in the early 2000s! Purist cried and screamed for what ever reason. They have not played anything in 20 years he’ll I even said 5 or 10 seconds to account recreating a game I guess they don’t understand modern servers not being able to handle a out dated system on top of 1000000m bots spamming games…. It takes mins to make games and my solution is still better!
Blizzard your auto correct / talk to speech is awful
Imagine searching for Baal runs and all people had to do was reset the area instead of making a game oh look I still have re teleport down to Thorne Room! Only the game host can reset areas when the host leaves a new host is selected it’s so hard to add a basic modern feature to a dated game instead bots are spamming games thus it takes 1-3 min to make a game great system
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At least:
Put official channels:
- Trade
- Raids (Exp Runs)
- PvP
- Rush
At best:
- Allow us to see ALL available games and put a search filter.
Can we have a blue post please?
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Yeah, all I keep seeing is hour long old games. So frustrating. They need to fix it asap.
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Completely agree…its a downgrade from the old school one lol
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Yes please.
Let us search the games and also organize by time created.
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Spending more time searching games than playing them.
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Define “old game”.
This post is twenty characters long.
Yeah my friend wanted me to level up to 60 so I could go to hell mode, and it took me 5-30 minutes of frustration searching for baal games that would have only taken seconds on the old battle net.
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I’d like to add that there’s also a really annoying omission that wasn’t listed:
When you click on a game to join, the game name populates with the game name that you clicked. So, if a game ends up disappearing from the list during each refresh, at the very least, you have the game name still in your “Join game” search, and can simply press Enter.
OR, when doing leveling runs, you can click that name, backspace and add a # to the end, and be able to join the next game.
Instead, you have to literally type in every game name you want to join.
What a trash system.
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Real QoL improvements. I like it.
1.I agree with game limit in the list. I rather see 100+ games than 10 games. Also as mentioned, different people see different games which means they have multiple “rooms” for games and you are randomly put in one.
2. Filtering game not really needed if we can see whole bunch of games. In my opinion it would add unnecessary components to create/join games tab.
3. No need to categorize games. Just let us see way more games than we see now.
4. Baal run objective is not to kill baal. It is just name of the game and the game is supposed to be seen as long as there is at least one player in it. Currently due to some bug they show empty games. Fix the bug for showing empty games. No problems here.
5. Lot of people trade ingame and not in other platforms. Making trade game and doing mf while waiting for people to show up is quite efficient. Or just make game and be afk for a while and see if interested people show up. No problem here.
6. Probably you should not go on as you seem to lack of the knowledge of this game.
Awful ideas. Nothing wrong with current system. Never saw anyone complain how it works in Diablo 2. The load times you have now are due to Blizzard’s incompetence. Once they fix it the game creation will be just fine.
Don’t think it is a good idea to divide the games in categories. It is quite typical to scout the game list for trades in seconds between e.g. baal runs. Also people would not use tags properly anyway. Your last idea to see all games is the one we need. There are different ways to implement it but I would not go for tags (filter).
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Yep totally agree, bloody lobby needs some quick fixes. In NZ/AUS you see pretty much ZERO public games. Makes the game feel pretty dead.