[LOBBY] Join game Refresh frustrations

[pvthudson]

Ok, it took me 15 minutes last night to find my friends game in the lobby

I only saw it once, then the rest of the night he would craete a game and it would NOT SHOW UP

No matter how many times I hit Refresh, i never saw the game he created

Then i tried to create a game and he could not see it

1) can we not sort by GAME NAME

2)need scroll bars to move the game selection window

3) need to be able to type in the name of the game we are looking to join

[pvthudson]

After numerous trial and error I had to spam refresh many times but the game still did not show unless I left the lobby

[roodie]

You CAN scroll down using the little arrows. Problem is that it is nearly impossible to joina game which is at the bottom of the list. If you scroll down, and select a game, a moment before you would be able to join, the list refreshes and you have to scroll down again... and again..

[eobet]

I found the lobby extremely confusing!

When you click OK on the automatch feature, the window just disappears, telling you nothing. It took me quite a while to find the little info text at the top of the screen that told you the feature was searching for opponents.

When I wanted to list games, no sorting feature seemed to work, and the scrollbar lacked an actual visible bar (but you could still drag it around). The join button also seemed to never work (double clicking did, but I never managed to join a game... games which listed, for example 3/4 players said "full" when I double clicked, and still listed 3/4 after a refresh).

Also, there didn't seem to exist any filters whatsoever (at least, I couldn't find any).

My first impression so far: The tutorial is great, but the online component is not beta, it is alpha!

[FrostPaw]

I've just had the most ridiculously annoying 10minutes, I usualy host games for a friend but today (First time since open beta started) I went looking for a game to join.

The list was longer then I could display all at once so I scrolled down and noticed a game I wanted to join....I took my finger off the scroll bar with my mouse and the page jumped back to the top......So I scrolled down again.....let go of the scroll bar and it jumped back to the top....it did this every single time. the game I was trying to join was just beneath the top 20 or however many it shows to begin with and no matter how many times or how fast I tried to click the game room I would be reset to the top of the page.

In short I gave up and came here to rant about it. Anybody else find it impossible to chose a game below the top of the list?

[ÜberJumper]

I wonder if that's the auto-refresh screwing you up...

[eobet]

Can you turn off auto refresh? It seems that my scrollbar jumps to the top position every second, so it is very difficult to scroll.

[eobet]

I just had my chat screen's 1/4 bottom part display no text for the duration of two game launches. Third restart of the game cleared the issue up.

[ÜberJumper]

Games list and how the lobby handles a massive amount of players needs a serious re-working. It'd be nice to have the ability to sort it, and set only manual refreshes.

[Peaco]

I have also noticed there is no slider on the scroll or that just me??

[FrostPaw]

No there is no scroll bar but you can drag the whole bar as if there was one where ever you click and hold.

It could be the autorefresh, perhaps it should be automatic every 2minutes instead of every 2 seconds.

[End.Game]

When I attempt to scroll down through multiplayer games sometimes it works, and sometimes it keeps skipping and jumps back up on the list. Other times, I will get to the bottom of the list fine and then when I let go of the scroll arrow the list jumps back to the top before I can click on my game. This is EXTREMELY annoying because it makes it near impossible to join a friends game if their game is anywhere but at the top of the list.

Also, when selecting games they often times unselect themselves and I find that the multiplayer games list has jumped back up to the top/another random location in the list again. This makes things very aggrivating.

[ÜberJumper]

Threads merged.

There was a lot of bitching about the slow refresh in the Closed Beta, so Relic sped it up and added a manual refresh button. I think they need to re-think that, and re-tune a lot of the lobby to handle the massive amounts of players.

[FrostPaw]

I would agree, manual refresh does kind of take away the need for a repeated auto refresh...I mean if you are looking for a certain game you will keep hitting refresh until you find it......if you are reading the name of each game and trying to decide which one to join you really don't want the game refreshing for you too quickly it just screws with your eyes and focus.

It would also be nice to have some kind of flood control in the chat lobby....Or maybe just more rooms....perhaps a dedicated room just for chatting to try and clean up the game rooms from being constantly spammed....its so hard to read them and pick out important text when users are typing two words then enter repeatedly.

[theBlind]

It´s a shame the lobby is only able to support the number of players that will be left if the game ships with it :(

Just fyi, there IS a scrollbar, its just invisible. But if you click-hold it, scroll untill you see your game, then wait for the list to shake you´ll have about 1,5 seconds to join a game before the list goes back to the top. better than using the arrows anyway.

-theBlind

[ÜberJumper]

Threads merged again.

(shhhh but I'm told ppl are looking at this... you didn't hear it from me k?)

[theBlind]

hey Über - I´m not really bitching. Its just that this game is such a blast I don´t want to see it fail... What you mean? Relic neither? Hmmm, have to think about that :D

[Grem]

You CAN scroll down using the little arrows. Problem is that it is nearly impossible to joina game which is at the bottom of the list. If you scroll down, and select a game, a moment before you would be able to join, the list refreshes and you have to scroll down again... and again..


This is by far the most infuriating thing(and might I note the ONLY bad thing) I've noticed so far. It takes forever to get in a game I want if it's at the bottom. I can't imagine having more people with more games in there.

[mecha]

It's not auto refreshing as such, it's just a UI bug where everytime a new game is added or a game is updated or removed the scroll position and selection is reset. We're looking at it.

[NSGrendel]

*bump*

I can't imagine that multi-player GUI we are using represents the final build, but it is unacceptably poor at the moment. To be honest, most retail games ship with totally unsatisfactory interfaces. Apart from the above difficulty in entering games due to auto-refresh, some way to filter games based on the rules used in their creation would also be handy.