is there a reason for when I hit the refresh button it shows the same 20 games? Some of which have been open for over 2 hours?
I’m not interested in Cows15 that’s been done for 45mins. So I hit refresh, and that same game is sitting there. What’s the deal with the refresh button? Why doesn’t it actually work? How can I filter out games that have been open for over 30minutes? What possible use could I have for Baalwalk77 that’s 30 minutes old?
Is there a fix coming for this? Or do I just spam the refresh button that doesn’t do anything until a random game that isn’t 1:30:27 pops up? Anyone else having this problem?
There is some weird filter in the game list. It doesn’t show all games and isn’t really working at all. Big disappointment that they didn’t mention Lobby&Channels in 2.4.
You can actually use a VPN to connect to different game-lists, but it’s still not a viable workaround. If you’re desperate it will work for now. For example, my HC list only had 2 games, I connected to Montreal Canada and their HC list had 7 games on it.
This is an important issue that should be addressed before ladder launches. I can’t even stress enough how much more productive the game would feel. And this isn’t asking for a new feature, it’s asking to restore the online mode to it’s original functional state. Even Diablo 1, 1996 had a better online mode. This one is dead and lifeless.
This is actually the most important issue they could address for ladder. A connected game-list with a search filter. PD2 has just that. If they can do it Blizzard can too right? The only way it doesn’t get done is if people act like nothings wrong. Yeah yeah, I get it it’s hard to remember what the game was like in 2001. Yeah well I can, and I know how much more fun it was.
A long time ago, and by that I mean 20 years or so, I joined a cows game that was way past it’s conclusion and sitting on the ground was a unique monarch.
Stuff the update, I’m done with this game until they fix these kind of QOL features or add in players 8 online. The multiplayer experience is dreadful and progress once you have level 90+ is just dismally slow.
I have to agree . This is the most important thing Devs could/should have to fix RIGHT NOW. How could Llama not bring it up??? oh! I forgot! he was too busy giggling/ blushing.
I think the games you see are based on ping, somehow everyone I’ve met on this game is from about 20 minutes away from me. It’s odd for sure but I don’t think you’re going to see a lot going on unless you join a clan and find people from all over that way
The lobby, Friend list and matchmaking system are all completely f’d they just about work enough for people to play.
Lots of people are annoyed by this and its been said many many times. Quite a large percentage of the population would rather they scrap the proposed changes and fix the damn game first but we got completely ignored apparently.
was the most recent one I saw but there have been lots of other posts about this since forever
It’s based 100% on location. Which is really dumb. I can VPN into a specific city and get a new game list. I can then change the VPN server of that city, and get another game list.
You can go on any D2R related youtube video and find guys like this all over.
The fact is there are enough classic players. The problem is if there are 200 (America) classic players, those players are being divided up by 10+ servers, where as on the original game, they would only be divded by two realms. 100/100. It’s also highly situational. Some guy might live in a lower populated area and be connected to 5 guys or less.
It’s sad that this guy is left to think “there aren’t enough classic players!!!” and even his “It just doesn’t make sense to me” is sad to read.
I know there is a more technical side to this, and it might not be as simple as let’s have this ready for next patch. But the PD2 modders were capable of rerouting all servers to a single game-list (and a lot more lobby QOL than that), I’m sure Blizzard can do it too. If it’s an issue with the older code, they should hire the PD2 guy on temporary contract for a few months to help out.
Now is the perfect time to test these things out while we’re all on PTR before ladder.
This kind of “QOL” would kill about 6 birds with one stone.
I was shocked that there were no lobby improvements on the ptr. Will they really release ladder when the lobby/chat is in pre-alpha state?
If there’s some impossible technical issue with battle net 2.0 that makes it impossible to make a list of games with basic filtering they should at least tell the players because right now it just looks like they don’t care.
well said, that’s exactly how the game feels right now.
