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Hello,
I'm wondering if the ps4 servers are active at all? I went ahead and bought the Complete Edition of the game, and went into a Dominion PvP match. I waited in que for 7 mins before I finally gave up and did the Arcade mode, and in my honest opinion Arcade is boring as hell without a friend to play with. I waned to try breach, however it showed medium activity. The dominion matchmaking showed high activity although waiting 7 minutes it must of been lying. Anyway just wondering how active is ps4 and how long are people generally having to wait to get into matches. I'm also in the Central Timezone as I stay in Texas.
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As a PS4 player, I can tell you that the game was very active prior to Patch 2.11. But there are many players like myself who stopped playing For Honor after certain heroes were nerfed into the ground, such as the Shinobi. Because there are noticeable problems with the viability of heroes like Shinobi, which have very poor offense and defense especially on the console platform. I am sure player activity will increase on the PS4 once Ubisoft corrects the problems with the heroes that are complete trash in the current meta for console.
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You already know that I disagree with you, so it is not necessary to follow me all over the forums saying the same response as if I haven't heard already your perspective as a Non-Shinobi User. This thread is about PS4 player activity and so I am sharing some reasons why console players have left the game because my friends and I are people who actually fall into this exact category.Originally Posted by AmonDarkGod Go to original post
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Your opinion on the Shinobi is not the authority on what is false nor what is fact, and neither is mine. Either way, this topic is about PS4 player activity and if players like myself lose interest in the game because heroes lack offense and defense; then it doesn't matter what you or anyone else says about it since players are entitled to their own opinions and their own reasons for quitting. Either way, I am part of the demographic of PS4 players who are no longer active and I am also a Shinobi player expert, so my reason for leaving is a relevant fact in this matter.Originally Posted by AmonDarkGod Go to original post
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Ps4 is the most active platform from what i've seen.Originally Posted by GLoveless1985 Go to original post
Waiting time are shorter than PC and Xbox usually.
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Outside of a few exception i've never encounter abnormaly long wait Times on ps4.Originally Posted by AmonDarkGod Go to original post
I am talking for Dominion, breach and duel.
Brawl is slighly longer, deathmatch a bit more and Tribut isnt even worthfull to queue in doesnt matter the platform.
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In my experience, the wait times on PS4 are a lot quicker than on pc. Usually they are either instant or take up to 4 minutes for Dom and Breach.
I barely play duel & brawl, but when I do, I'd say I have a match within 2-3 minutes.
Tribute and Deathmatch however are pretty dead and usually takes around 6 minutes to find a pvp lobby.
I'm from Central Europe, so maybe that's the difference.
When I play on PC, my wait times usually go above the 2 minutes, but stay under the 10 which is fine imo.
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There is currently no population problems on consoles or PC. PS4 is in fact the most populated platform.Originally Posted by GLoveless1985 Go to original post
There is however a big problem with the matchmaking system at the lowest level and highest level MMR, i.e. the new players and the highest skill rating players. If you are in either of these two brackets your matchmaking wait times will be excessively long regardless of what the activity level of that mode indicates. Furthermore the system is more likely to put in low rep players with the highest rep players in the game. All in all creating a really bad experience for both the newest players and the highest skill players.
This issue occured after a patch in Season 10 (Hitokiri Season) and the developers have not yet gotten around to fixing it.
Once you get out of the new player MMR you'll start getting faster matchmaking times. But until then you'll have excessive wait times and you will often be put into teams with really high rep players. Keep in mind also that each mode has its own MMR so you'll gradually get decreased wait times mode by mode and not all at once across every mode.
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I never said that as an expert Shinobi player, I cannot "perform good." That statement is an oversimplification of the entire debate to begin with. What I have been saying since Patch 2.11, is that using the Shinobi requires an unreasonably higher amount of skill compared to other heroes in order to compensate for the unreasonable vulnerabilities. I have also stated that given two players at the same skill level in blocking, parrying, deflecting, and striking; the Non-Shinobi hero has the advantage in offense and defensive capability.Originally Posted by AmonDarkGod Go to original post
In other words, the issue is about balance. And in case you have forgotten, this is a video game and people play video games because they are supposed to be enjoyable. An unbalanced game is not enjoyable and that is why I no longer play. To make the argument that a decent player should be good enough to tolerate unbalanced problems in the game mechanics is as illogical and childish as it is to challenge someone who has already stopped playing the game. I have no incentive to indulge your unfounded opinions; this is my final post in this thread. Still waiting for something relevant to happen in the Patch notes for the Shinobi. Until then, I remain an inactive For Honor player because I lost interest in the game due to the myriad of balance issues which culminated in the Shinobi getting nerfed in the ground.
Every player has a line and mine was crossed with Patch 2.11.
