How to fix retarded Rockstar matchmaking?

[makki3]

I was doing races with 5 friends with me as host and we were having a good time with our custom settings for around 2 races until the third one when BAM! We're all thrown into some 16 player race lobby which was oh so crap since none of us were host, you know how 12 year olds are with supercars on GTAO. Is there any way to prevent this completely redundant and retarded matchmaking process which tries to throw as many players together without taking into consideration that players don't wanna be tossed into giant lobbies full of randoms.

 

Is there any way to fix this?

 

[Chinsei]

Host a job turn off match making invite individually. boom no more match making problems.

[makki3]

Just happened again 5 minutes ago where me and 2 friends were doing a Lester mission, we vote for the mission 'titan of a job' AND BAM only me and 1 friend join the session which is switched to ANOTHER host and the lobby is full so the other friend cannot join.

 

I'm on ps4 if anybody is wondering.

Host a job turn off match making invite individually. boom no more match making problems.

We close matchmaking and it still happens for some reason :\

[Relative007]

Interestingly, I have also noticed that the Matchmaking has now been changed so as to "Merge" Sessions together (where practical) when you choose a Mission from the Job Select Screen. This has been particularly noticeable on PS4 when you have 6 - 8 Players, Select a 30 Player Deathmatch and then all Player's get Joined to a new Lobby with a new Host.

 

R* have no doubt done this as people have been complaining about empty Job Lobbies. As with everything they have done however, they seem to keep missing the Big Picture and let things such as you mentioned makki3 happen.

 

More or less you can do nothing about it as far as I am aware (Less all leaving and Joining a New Job, but the Mission Select screen makes it much faster of course).

 

Edit: Underlined bit indicates why Chinsei's solution will not work.

Edited January 11, 2015 by Relative007

[TheN7evn]

Its been over a year and R* havent even bothered fixing the stupid Team Deathmatch & capture etc matchmaking so.... Anyways on topic you could all just leave after the mission and as someone before me has mentioned to host a job/mission & invite only your friends. I know its a pain because its easier to vote etc and you have to go through the being stuck in the clouds bs. but thats the best way IMO

[MarkNuttGod]

Solution = free mode after race/pvp and host again

Times consuming but no randoms

 

Seriously rockstars fs up something after "fixing"

[Smesi]

Do you know how SMB For Wii U / 3DS does their Matchmaking?,With the "For Glory" and the "For Fun" sh*t?

 

how about if we put that in Online?

 

But heres the twist.

 

Instead of "For Fun",Its going to be "supa sw4g 420 battles n races xd" and "For Glory" its goin to be "nerd battles fur nerds lul"

 

Every kid and Dirty Racer its going to go to the "Super sw4g battles",becuase being a "nerd" is appareantly is a bad thing,meanwhile everybody else goes to the "Nerd" battles.

 

100% chance of working.

[makki3]

Interestingly, I have also noticed that the Matchmaking has now been changed so as to "Merge" Sessions together (where practical) when you choose a Mission from the Job Select Screen. This has been particularly noticeable on PS4 when you have 6 - 8 Players, Select a 30 Player Deathmatch and then all Player's get Joined to a new Lobby with a new Host.

 

R* have no doubt done this as people have been complaining about empty Job Lobbies. As with everything they have done however, they seem to keep missing the Big Picture and let things such as you mentioned makki3 happen.

 

More or less you can do nothing about it as far as I am aware (Less all leaving and Joining a New Job, but the Mission Select screen makes it much faster of course).

 

Edit: Underlined bit indicates why Chinsei's solution will not work.

God I hate the matchmaking that Rockstar has for missions/races/deathmatches. I'm in a free aim assisted lobby (IMO the most balanced and fun targeting mode) and whenever I join a deathmatch it searches for a match for around 5 seconds and places me in an empty lobby. This happens around 5 - 10 times before I join a lobby with another person. It makes me nauseated how bad the matchmaking is for some aspects of GTAO.

[Crisez]

Interestingly, I have also noticed that the Matchmaking has now been changed so as to "Merge" Sessions together (where practical) when you choose a Mission from the Job Select Screen.

 

Exactly. That sucks. It happened to me and two friends a couple of days ago, after finishing a mission. We voted for a new one, and that one was being hosted by some random. Not only it was set to Normal instead of Hard, but also apparently that guy didn't notice the matchmaking option exists, because he kicked both of my friends, so I left because I knew I was next.

F*ck you R*. F*ck you too, random guy.

[makki3]

 

Interestingly, I have also noticed that the Matchmaking has now been changed so as to "Merge" Sessions together (where practical) when you choose a Mission from the Job Select Screen.

 

Exactly. That sucks. It happened to me and two friends a couple of days ago, after finishing a mission. We voted for a new one, and that one was being hosted by some random. Not only it was set to Normal instead of Hard, but also apparently that guy didn't notice the matchmaking option exists, because he kicked both of my friends, so I left because I knew I was next.

F*ck you R*. F*ck you too, random guy.

 

Wow such sadness much crying. I really hope rockstar either eliminates the merging of parties OR giving the host of a party 'merge lobby' option where we actually have an option for that matchmaking option.

[~Joseph~]

Buy those cash cards

[Crisez]

 

 

Interestingly, I have also noticed that the Matchmaking has now been changed so as to "Merge" Sessions together (where practical) when you choose a Mission from the Job Select Screen.

 

Exactly. That sucks. It happened to me and two friends a couple of days ago, after finishing a mission. We voted for a new one, and that one was being hosted by some random. Not only it was set to Normal instead of Hard, but also apparently that guy didn't notice the matchmaking option exists, because he kicked both of my friends, so I left because I knew I was next.

F*ck you R*. F*ck you too, random guy.

 

Wow such sadness much crying. I really hope rockstar either eliminates the merging of parties OR giving the host of a party 'merge lobby' option where we actually have an option for that matchmaking option.

 

Sadness? Crying? Pfff, don't be an idiot... I know it's not a big deal, I just don't want to be forced to create a run of missions and invite people again because of some guy I don't even know.

[JON22]

Change games?

 

*puts up fanboy/girl/¿⸮?? shield* Muahaha!

[DJS]

Also annoying when I'm trying to host real races. Ultimately we end up in some yoloswag lobby with traffic on. Worst.

[SecretDonkey14]

In settings. Remain host after job vote screen (or something similar) turn it on and you won't get thrown in with a new group that you aren't hosting.

[JC Hammer]

Host a job turn off match making invite individually. boom no more match making problems.

 

NO!, NO!, NO! Never wait until after you host a job to turn off matchmaking, this will result in you making the biggest DB move in the game, inviting players and then kicking them

 

Turn off matchmaking BEFORE you host the job in your personal ONLINE/OPTIONS/MATCHMAKING/CLOSED

[SecretDonkey14]

 

 

Host a job turn off match making invite individually. boom no more match making problems.

NO!, NO!, NO! Never wait until after you host a job to turn off matchmaking, this will result in you making the biggest DB move in the game, inviting players and then kicking them

 

Turn off matchmaking BEFORE you host the job in your personal ONLINE/OPTIONS/MATCHMAKING/CLOSED

This way means you don't have to close it everytime as well, so no worries about forgetting and having randoms join.

The option for remain host is just below the matchmaking option I think, so you can change both at the same time and you're good to go.

Edited January 11, 2015 by SecretDonkey14

[paulmgrath]

i like being merged

[Relative007]

i like being merged

 

It does work for me to as I never Host and only ever play with Random Players. However I can see how it can cause Issues for people and it was evidently overlooked by R*