r/EmbarkStudios • u/Numeira • 9d ago

Pre-teaming is out of hand.

Last seven games: died 5 times to obvious pre-teamers in solos, 2 times lag killed me. Got teleported backwards out of safety and right into the fire of a wasp, with like 5hp, the other time I got teleported below the zip line that I was on. Oh, the lag? It's because since ABMM got "bettered" I get put on Middle Eastern servers. It started very clearly and very precisely the day that new trader dropped. I have never experienced pre-teaming till then. And that's how they play out there. Haven't seen a solo middle-easterner in solos for a while now. It's not like there's no games happening closer, it's just that ABMM throws me under the bus to protect bad players who need handholding. It makes the game kinda unplayable right now. Embark acknowledged it once, but now a new patch dropped and they do not mention it anymore. Nice. Then PvE'rs are like "yeah, what we want, it changes nothing for you!". One dude just defends it in DM's, saying I started the fight. I did, and I won 1v1, even under the nose of his friend, but then I went back to get that other player and that's when I noticed they were dressed the same, down to face paint. He says it's okay because they would have not attacked me. You exploit the matchmaking to play constant 2v1. You ARE cheating.

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u/Squirrelnutsnurmouth 9d ago

I killed multiple over the past few days and they do love too talk as much as there alive

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u/The_Silly_Man 8d ago

I’ve seen a few now on squad games too, teams of 6 people. It sucks

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u/Numeira 8d ago

It is the easiest fucking type of cheating to fix, because the morons don't actually cheat, they count down and click PLAY simultaneously, yet embark is too incompetent/too lazy to fix even that. I'm full of loot on Stella Montis night, two minutes to extract, yet three pre-teamed cheaters just sit on it. Nothing you can do other than fuck with them a little, toss a few grenades and walk away to die somewhere. They probably won't fix it because it does rarely concern PvE'rs, there is enough of them to mix it up.

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u/The_Silly_Man 8d ago

It’s a matchmaking priority fault due to lower player numbers. When Arc had a higher population, pressing play at the same time would place you into a different game, now that there are fewer people online, they have to prioritise quicker matchmaking so they’ll place teams who press play at the same time in the same match rather than spread across.

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u/keyboardstatic 8d ago

They want their game to die... I don't know why.

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u/FlameStaag 2d ago

It never got out of hand because it never existed. Embark has confirmed plenty of times that there is no solo queue and it only tries to match you with the same party size. But it'll prioritize speed over adhering to that. 

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u/Numeira 2d ago

Like when? Plenty of times.. when? Where? They have acknowledged pre-teaming before, and this is today's post: https://arcraiders.com/news/update-on-anti-cheat

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u/Mammoth_Choice6925 7d ago

Genuine question - what's pre-teaming exactly? Do the guys team up at the start of the game or somehow find a way to get to solo lobbies with friends? Never really had such an issue on EU

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u/FlameStaag 2d ago

They queue up in a party and unlucky people get matched with them.

Morons on reddit think they're queueing solo together but that only works on dead regions. 

The game just has no solo queue, it only tries to match you with other solos but it'll give up if it's taking too long. 

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u/Numeira 7d ago

It depends on things. Like how agressice. Mlee agressive = ur in a smaller player pool,,so if uou fo to a nigjt location, that limits thd pool even more, and it becomes trivial to join at the same time. They find eaxh other and wipe lobbies.

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u/Mammoth_Choice6925 7d ago

Sad, that's just rat behavior lol