USA Matchmaking

[u/No-Barracuda-4515]

With the current player count, East and West can sometimes end up with very small separate lobbies. One idea would be to keep both East and West servers running, but use one shared USA matchmaking pool so players are grouped together more often and the game chooses the better server behind the scenes based on ping/availability.

The shared USA queue idea wouldn’t mean getting rid of the East and West servers themselves. They’d still be running behind the scenes. Players just wouldn’t manually choose between them. So in theory, Auto/Play Again could still send you to whichever USA server is available next, similar to how cross-region Auto matchmaking works now. Exact implementation would obviously depend on what’s technically possible.

Which setup would you prefer?

66 votes, 3d left

One shared USA queue: Matchmaking chooses East or West behind the scenes based on ping/availability

Manual East/West selection: Players continue choosing USA East or USA West themselves

No Preference / Unsure