Hi everyone,

I'm 2-for-2 regarding thread posts to game changes! Shinobi can now feint the third hit of the zone attack (something I suggested a while back) and the OOS punishes for all the characters have drastically changed (for the better imo), so perhaps Ubi will listen to this next suggestion I have.

In Australia, the region I play (and the only region available to me), at any given time of day, you will only be able to find a game either in dominion or duel, nothing else. This is a shame, because from a competitive standpoint the game has much more to offer than those two modes, and also because I'm kind of tired of playing them, against the regular crowd of group queues, day in and day out.

The fact that no option exists to play out-of-region or out-of-continent is unbecoming of a AAA title, irrespective of the documented server issues the game has had in the past. I've had no shortage of attempts (and 15 minute matchmaking timeouts) queuing for Breach (my preferred mode). Take a guess how many games of that mode, in total, after trying daily for three months, I have been able to join. Just guess.

Jeopardy music is done? Alright. Here's the number.

Three.

That's appalling, obviously. To elucidate just how appalling, here are some other games which have those numbers for similar tests, given similar stretches of elapse: Evolve. Battleborn. The Culling. Realm Royale. More recently, Fallout 76. And who could forget the atrocity that was Assassin's Creed Unity?

They all had their reasons for flopping. But here's what makes this different:
Marching Fire was released in October of last year. Breach is somehow already dead here. Why? Because the servers are so rigidly region-locked and the devs are so precious about them given their history that they refuse to even test cross-region matchmaking for any reason.

Also monopolising the daily orders during the Assassin's Creed event, to the event mode, didn't help, but I digress.


Breach was my strong draw to take the game seriously again, but I'm not trying to wait three hours on a Saturday (in stuttered intervals of 15 minutes no less) to get my fix. Release competent cross-region compatibility in the near future, or I think I might be done with the game altogether tbh.