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completely agree, there is NO reason why a game that came out after 2010 should have UX this bad
UX?
@@ratedr7845 user experience
@@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447 you had to have made that up
I agree with gekko tho. I don't mind the tower over a waiting for opponent screen. I can even deal with the connecting to servers wait time (though that is complete bs), just lemme play the game I love.
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I’m super happy to see that other people have been having this problem with the servers refusing to connect matches. I only started playing the game about a month ago and I was worried that the problem was my own hardware. I really hope this gets fixed soon I’ve been really craving glue recently…
The issue has existed since launch. It caused several people to quit, which led to the server stress decreasing and the problems became lesser. They saw this and didn't bother to fix the problem in the event that a large population increase were to happen in the future, you know, like crossplay implementation or something.
Same I started playing 2 months ago and this has been a constant issue. I need to reboot my came after almost every match
@@TheLoneArtistthis issue has existed BEFORE launch, Blaze blue has been going through the exact same thing
I wasn’t having this issue much until recently, the netcode is amazing but the connectivity in match making is a problem
I heard there was a hacker that was at fault for this? Idk or maybe I got confuse with the hacker at JP Evo2023
I've loved Strive since I picked it up a month ago, but waiting for an hour to get into one match is actually insane. I think I might have more hours spent waiting to get into a match than actually playing in one
I have found that Training Mode matchmaking helps but lately it takes too much, even at the player count rn
One hour to get a match? Where do you live? I'm from Indonesia, usually lurking about in Japan tower, 10 minutes is the longest do far..
@@feryparera6748 I live right in the middle of the US, so I'm in-between the west and east cost where the two connection points are
That’s so sad, jeez man
@@stinkranger If I'm not mistaken a hacker impersonated a Dev and made the netcode worse than USUAL, or maybe I got confused with the hacker at JP Evo2023. But it's really unfortunate cuz I'm saving up for strive.
Well this is pretty interesting. As someone who basically never played a modern fighter and basically lives in fc2, it's crazy to hear about players complaining so much on just connecting to another player, or the server issues, they can seem absurd to see.I guess stuff like this is harder to nail than I thought
you play far cry 2?
@@-cams. fightcade 2 💀
@@meethepie bruh i have never heard of that shit
I've actually been getting a lot of crashes in 3rd strike on fightcade. I'm not sure what happened but now if I like minimize are all tab half the time the game f****** crashes. Never used to happen I played fightcade for the past three years and never had
@@-cams. it's a completely free multiplayer multi emulation arcade thing for playing old fighting games against other people with good netcode.
I started playing strive about 2 months ago and I have the following issues:
1) game has trouble connecting to other players usually after a match 2 two forcing me to restart
2) floor updates usually dump you in the emptiest lobby
3) no basic combo list, new players have no idea what’s going on when they have to go into the combo menu to download 2 similar strings and 3 way above their level
Thank you for bringing this up. I have not heard anyone else critique some of this stuff. What is nuts is that the rollback is great. Only problem is, it takes about 7-10 minutes to get into a damn match. It's like FN up a wet dream. How do you F@&$ up a wet dream?!?
Arcsys outsources the rollback - they are totally incompetent when it comes to UX or networking
The servers have worked well enough for me during the duration I've played Strive, but ever since the crossplay update I've had *LITERAL* weeks of not being able to connect to a match. It's happening right now, actually. Now I'm in the same dilemma of wanting to quit.
lag is a terrifying force to be wreckoned with, whether it be from client side or server's it can mostly make people quit their favourite games on the spot
What I hate the most about this is that they don't really seem to care enough about these problems. The game didn't exactly come out yesterday, but the experience is still so frustrating.
I get more anxiety trying to find a match than playing a match, i wonder how much that undermined Strive's chances to hold and keep new players
Celestial challenge is scary now since if you fail it's like losing a hour or 2 of progress
Software Developer here: the initial server connection was pretty slow mainly due not using keepalive on the TCP connections, which led to the creation of "totsugeki" proxy that sped up PC connections.
Now with the connection problems, it leads me to believe it is a case of poor backend development and how their operations folks run and monitor their servers. Game Dev and backend dev and operations are different beasts after all, and arcsys seems to lack expertise in the later two.
Idk how they've been in the game for 20+ years.
Dude I hard agree, I just started and I'm on Xbox and when I tell you over 70% of my game time is trying to find a match only for it not to work, I'm being dead ass. Fun game but the servers are so ass
Whenever I see actual human Gek, I'm always so confused
I'm always just like "why is the fox man voice coming out of the flesh mass?"
9:52 that was me lmaoo
On my perspective in the lobby you were just telporting from cabinet to cabinet 💀
ggs!
The only explanations I could ever come up with to explain Arc System Works's design decisions for handling online (particularly stuff like the forced log-in at game start) are that:
1) No one involved with the decision-making ever played online, so they implement ideas that might look good in a manager/board meeting but are terrible in execution
2) The people in charge actively hate online play and anyone with an internet connection, and actively sabotage their games
i find myself already tilted by the time i find a match. All of that shit piles up and you play 1 or 2 matches and just quit because fk going thru another 100 battle stations to get your ass kicked.
You're always welcome to join the +R community! Game might not have the prettiest UX, but it's really good at getting you into matches..plus best replay system in fighting games ever.
how is it for newcomers? been playing 3s on fightcade and the playerbase is huge with vastly different skill levels,I could find matches with other newbies without any issues.
is it similar with +R or are most of the remaining players godlike?
@@thefgcsensei4482 The player base is like half and half, half newer people who picked up +R when it got rollback and half OGs who have played for like 15 years.
@@Dreikoo nice..imma have to drop in some matches
@The FGC Sensei check the last video I posted, it's literally about the newbie experience of plus r
@@sefflikejeff1917 thanks for the reccomend Imma sub asap
7:23 thank god. I honestly thought that i had a really bad conection but no just strive being strive
The main reason, i believe, the servers fell apart is because of MASSIVE player influx thanks to it going into gamepass. I bought the game on december and spent all that time until mid march with 0 errors. And i live in south america. To show you the influx, SA servers went from 2 people on floor 10 if you were lucky at a saturday afternoon to 17 every floor on a monday noon. So yeah.
This is definitely a huge problem...being honest, it's especially frustrating when you just got washed and are looking to take it out on the next opponent, or when your winning and your hands start to "cool down."........at the end of the day the tower would be better if floors 9 through celestial had blind matches so you had to be good enough against all potential challengers instead of "cherry picking"your way to the top. As an Axl main, it is kinda frustrating that typically only Millia, Chip, and sometimes Sol players will challenge me when I'm at a podium. Every other character, I have to hunt one down to fight.
I quit Strive because it's too easy to autopilot and also that moment in the video where you say the game just doesn't want you to play? Yeah, I was demolishing this guy on my final celestial challenge match. I was happy because I don't consider myself too great at fighting games, so getting into celestial twice would mean I improved at the game. Instead, the game decides to boot me out of the match at the very last second I was about to win, where I had to queue again and promptly lost. I played a little more after that but that shit just demolished my soul and I found I just couldn't have fun with the game anymore.
when I was playing Strive the other day every person I was connecting to would eventually just stand completely still after a while and I would eventually disconnect from the server completely. I found out that it was due to server issues from the new Xbox port that affected all platforms but man that situation really turned me off the game because I wasn’t able to finish a single set. it happened to me in EVERY match
I don't follow ggs news or the community really, so Im glad to learn the failed to connect thing isn't just my internet x'3
No the biggest problem is the game eating inputs and freezing me in place with lag and bugged animations making startups last 10+ seconds and removing block for no reason
As someone who lives in Zealand and, thus, has to play tower in Japan, when I started running into the server connectivity issues I thought it had something to do with those shenanigans so it was, in a way, reassuring, to know it's the servers in general having a bad time.
It's a shame because, as someone who bounces between floors 7 and 9, I find Tower to be a great experience. Because the system is quick to update your floors (something that is no longer massively painful), it never feels like you're out of place for long and I think there's a good mental reassurance in looking for people and seeing them at the stations compared to just hitting "find me a match" and then having absolutely no idea if things are working under the hood (Hello, there, King of Fighters).
I think, perhaps, the thing that Tower needs is just some floors within celestial, because the high level people are always complaining it's too much of a mix there. Here's hoping ArcSys manages to spin up more servers in whatever cloud hosts their stuff and things settle
I DO think that talking about UX in general and defining it as generally as you did weakens your complaint a bit because in everything that's not to deal with online connectivity, UX in this game is pretty great. The move lists and practice missions in this game have made me absolutely loathe basically every other game when it comes to this aspect. The bar has been set way too high, way too high being "there's like a sentence that explains what the move is for". You play any SNK game and it's like "here's your move" and if you go to the wiki you find out that each version has different invincibilities which the game never mentioned, lmao
Yo! Im in Australia you can hmu whenever and I'd be down to play some games (if the servers work)
Man, I wanna play Strive but homie, these server issues are insane. I don't even know if I wanna use Strive as an SF6 waiting room or not. I was gonna, especially with Bedman? releasing this week, but now I'm not so sure. But with Strive suffering so greatly, and my options for other fighting games feeling narrow, I'm starting to wonder if I maybe just take a break til June.
I remember launch Strive, where I had to wait for over 5 minutes to get to the main menu...
It’s been fairly alright today had some sort of maintenance today, though I’m still new so don’t have much experience with these issues as others may and should be taken granularly
I’m new to this game. I purchased it yesterday. I thought the server connection was a glitch. Glad to know it’s not just me.
Just started fighting games this month, got over my online anxiety and started playing online matches and this is a hell of a way to get introduced with constant "unable to connect" messages and getting booted out of matches. Have had a few good sessions at off-peak hours but then the problems start again after a while.
Strive experience
me when I thought the server problems were my fault for trying to play strive on my laptop that struggles to run the game at 60 fps on the university wifi
Also for those of us who live in South America, there was a serious server problem for a few months where, only for people in south America, the game would take an obscenely long amount of time to load on startup (we're talking about 30+ minutes on the initial load screen, and that's if you were lucky and it didn't die partway through and start over) so it was almost impossible to play the game, to the point I actually tried using a VPN to do the initial load and it was 10 times faster than loading the game normally, like how do you mess something up that bad
I already knew what this was gonna be about before I clicked on it.
I literally can’t get a single match today because either my connection *never shows,* or it just fails to connect entirely.
Due to the server issues I had a game with 31 role back frames and 2fps
i just tried the game for the first time. upon opening the game i had to slowly scroll through 2 ridiculously long User Agreement/privacy policy things, create a user name, then it connected to server.
The online has always been bad for the game(not the netcode), and then it got worse. Still, my biggest issue with the game was always the damage. EVERYONE hits like a truck full of nuclear trucks lol. As to the tower, it's fine on its own, but the game should ALSO have included a normal ranked mode.
The server issues are far from fixed, it's still a 50/50 on whether you get a match or not. It's not as bad but still frustrating and very noticable
Arcsys really needs to fix their UI across all their games. I'm not here for a cute but broken chibi lobby room where I have to look for a room in a 3d spece that my friend is hosting; I'm here because I have a few hours between coming home from work, cooking dinner, and going to bed and a friend said he'd be down to play a few matches while his kid is taking a nap. I might be aging into boomer territory, but please just give me an option for a menu screen which doesn't require a 5 minute loading time between matches and gets me into the actual gameplay.
I've been on Strive for 15+ min currently and I've yet to find a game. Ran up to a dozen players and couldn't connect.
I just got into strive on a friends suggestion and this same issue has been driving me NUTS
It's unbelievable that the servers are somehow worse after 2 years of development
Very interesting watching this having recently made Tekken 7 my main game over Strive. The loading screens in that game are atrocious, plus no instant rematch, and the stress of the ranked system honestly has me missing the more chill atmosphere of the tower.
Definitely don't miss that "Communicating with server" every time I want to lab something, though =P
Funnily enough I was keen to get into Strive at launch, the startup/login time actually got me to quit and go back to Tekken 7 after like a week.
I really hope someone over at ArcSys watches this video. Today I waited 20 minutes to finally get in a match just to fight a Millia player who's PC clearly couldn't handle running the game. I turned off Strive and booted up RE4.
I think I just have the amazing luck of joining pvp games with either awful que times, lobby errors, and lag/disconnect for no reason or just full on close midmatch and I’m speedrunning trying to get through the loading screen.
I literally play a game where if ur playing alone it’ll take 5-15 minutes (usually) while if ur in duos/trios you’d get slapped into 15-30 minute long ques…. I’m not kidding I have screenshots of myself and friends even hitting the max where they waited a full on hour. But a full team is like 5-30 minutes, it’s a popular game but the ranking up system ends up either increasing or decreasing que time.
being on floor 10 myself, this problem is really, really apparent. Getting a match to try and get that 5 win streak to get a chance at celestial is atrocious. especially when you're steamrolling someone a little too hard and they decide they won't rematch and now you have to find another opponent that you'll freaking connect to...
9:50 lmfaooooo im not the millia in the clip but im a millia main, this hurts my soul man :( :')
when he said “now let’s look at the things you see when first starting the game” I immediately received a nice BK melts ad.
Just today I was connected for 2 hours and got about 5 games in. They definitely have not fixed it and it really sucks. I'm not done with Strive but it seems like it's done with me
I was a newcomer to this game, I'll shortly describe the agony (PC player):
- game recognises both keyboard and controller
- in menu settings, you can only rebind keyboad
- all buttons on controller work, except triggers (both dont work)
- game doesn't allow you to rebind/change/switch keys on controller
So I was not able to play. After 2 hours, 50 different posts on forums, 3 different controller manipulating programs and god knows how many PC restarts, I manage to somehow get the controller running on bluetooth only, without the game recognising the controller, but one of the 3 programs to recognise controller as a keyboard.
JESUS F-ING CHRIST
I have not had a single game in my life do this to me. It's like a racing game not recognising a wheel. How bad does the code have to be ?
The game's essence IS WELL TIMED KEYPRESSES. Not story. Not adventures. Not racing. Not battle royalle. The controller that you have IS THE GAME.
So eventually, after being able to at least throw some punches...I trried to do basic moves, basic special attacks. You see, since my controller was via bluetooth...It introduces minute input delay...And this game's special attacks, like HALF CIRCLE + (normal?) + SIDE + SLASH (or HB) are so fussy, I found it near to impossible to execute. And I'm no slouch at executing chains of button presses.
Mind you, when I finally got the super special attacks to work, I didn't get them on controller. I actually moved to keyboard by that time and got lucky with timing.
Overall, looks like an interesting game. Art style was what got me to try it. Interesting characters, perhaps. Really beautiful game. But it gives off that "Street Fighter" clone vibe.
Did not feel "new", "different" or "refreshing". DIfferent visuals is not enough, when underneath, the gameplay looks to be just like every other fighting game with minute differences.
They could've gone Shin Budokai's way (Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai Another Road on PSP), where the gameplay is new, refreshing, angled, balanced, control system is different...
I don't know...All I can tell you is that whilst searching through those 50 different topics, where people were having agonising problems trying to get their peripherals to work with this game...I've read countless times people ending their forum post with "I HAD TO REFUND", "AFTER 5 HOURS I REFUNDED" etc. etc.
I was confused why I couldnt find a match on my steam deck. I thought it was a compatibility issue
Glad someone is finaly talking about this. Am a new player who joined a month ago. Game started out great but have been having the worst time finding a match the past several weeks
That "Failed to match with an opponent" thing has been an issue since even BBCFs original release, and even in BBTAG, where you have an immaculate 4-bar connection with the person or room you want to connect to, and the game just says "Nah".
I think it's just an ArcSys thing at this point, and it's annoying.
Here's the thing. Fighting games were designed around playing against your buddy (or enemy) physically sitting right next to you.
I am of the opinion that fighting games can not and should not be online focused. Fighting games always have been and always will be best played physically with another human in the same space.
This may be an unpopular view, but I don't particularly care about the online mode (COVID notwithstanding) because the genre is meant to be played in person.
Aside from my own gripes with it I am happy it's successful, though why does it not have the simple ability to invite friends to a lobby like in older titles? I know there's the making your own room and setting a ID you can send to a friend and all however. On a side note Skullgirls always delivers.
My biggest issue with strive is the fact that you can see your opponents character.. I'm a bridget player and I consistently get dodged by players purely because of my character.... it's almost a worse feeling to not be able to match for 10 minutes then get a game then have them dodge you to spend another 10 minutes fighting the server... I played the game for 3 hrs one day and I got maybe 3 games in between everyone dodging and the servers just not matching me
as someone who is extremely new to fighting games half the reason I'm held back from playing the game is cus I have to wait so long and do so much just to get my ass handed to me by people who actually know what they're doing making really hard to learn cus there's only so much combo guides and practice tool can teach me....
I ditched Strive for SFV because I had no sense of progress in celestial after a while. I learned to live with the server issues, it's sad to hear they got even worse.
Well I found a quick fix to use when you can't connect to anyone in the lobby, you just have to update your R-Code (by changing your name or desc), hope this helps :)
Honestly the reason i got Guilty Gear is because i bought SF6 for my friend for his birthday and he felt like it was a bit too expensive so he bought me GGS. I played for an hour and got back to Mortal Kombat 1 but since MK1 has shitty servers that make me throw up when i think of playing the game i just went to play GGS. I would probably like to play SF6 more but i'm having my fun with Elphelt and i think i'm gonna play Guilty Gear for some time
GBVSR and SF6 Sweep bout to happen real soon if Strive don’t fix their shit
Rev 2 is here for you.
I’d be willing to pick up this game if they just fixed the matchmaking and made it like SF6.
surprised that there was nothing about bed.
The reason the severs were better after peak time was because of a lower amount of stress on the servers.
It’s a multi million (close to billion) dollar company they should be able to handle it, it’s so frustrating
i like your videos a lot but you really need to work on your title cards, by 3:09 you'd spelled both "experience" and "initial" wrong
Lmao
me personally, ive been doubling fown on playing my friends that are better than me since i cant get in the tower
I seriously thought that it was just my internet, or the fact that I was playing on xbox. But the fact that others have been experiencing this too concerns me.
I can’t believe my CSGO comp. match comes up faster than this.
What’s crazy is that I was having the same issue, I turned off cross-play and I got put into a lobby by myself on multiple occasions
as someone who is too strong to play floor 10 but finds it challenging to play agaisnt celestial opponents, I absolutely despises the celestial challenge system. The few times I got my VIP I usualy did it against players with similar low levels (200 or so range) or other challengers. sometimes I make it to the challenge on friday or saturday nights and most of my opponents are pro players and asking someone who plays casualy to beat pro players 5 times out of 6 is a bit dumb imo.
especially if you don't feel like you are making any progress fighting floor 10ers and would like to face similar skilled opponents (lower levels celestial players)
just feels like theres a floor "11" missing lol
This is quite an interesting video since I've never had issues with the server here in SEA/Japan, nor have I had to wait for more than 10 seconds before the main menu. Hope the issues get fixed for you.
The funny part is, the current user experience in Strive is probabbly even worse than what DNF was at launch. DNF had training mode freezing when paired with the opponent and giving long pauses to even be able to accept/decline, sometimes pressing matchmake on the menu would do absolutely nothing (requiring a full restart of the game), and after a match the "rematch" button would offten times be disabled.
Strive's experience post Xbox Crossplay was even worse, the stations being near unplayeable, holding people hostage on the station for long periods of time for "connecting", and even ONCE you finally found a match, it would STILL disconnect you from said match...
So, I hope Arcys is working hard on this, otherwise it can kill the game's momentum and who knows if Season Pass3 would even save it or get people to try it again, if they are still under the impression "the online just does not work".
yeah my biggest problem is that after like a year+ of not wanting to play, I have wanted to lately and now I can't! these damn servers! fighting a game so I can fight with a UI so I can fight with a network setting so I can have a match is just grrrrrrrr
The server gymnastics to get into a game is just dumb right now...and I don't even know if it works or just wishfull thinking. Especially like when the whole tower room gets disconnected
I also think that the low frame rate and the excessively noisy background's visuals are not appealing to new players... They make the game confusing
The people is network connectivity. No reason to introduce UX when you can just be more specific and say network connectivity. If you play offline everything is perfectly fine.
Update: may 2nd, the game works perfectly fine now.
Honestly the initial connection has stop me playing strive more then once.
The only problem of GGS - no instant kills
You clearly have not fought a good Sol before.
the failure to find other person has luckily barely applied to me. I can easily get matches
Literally can't play against others anymore because of failed to match error. Couple months ago I could hop in an play almost instantly. Hopefully the next update will fix this problem
In my experience simply Syncing your windows time seems to fix the issue, why this works I have no idea.
you need to know you can go to the lower floors even at a higher state or level just by purposly loseing battles so the game thinks you cant handle this floor unlocking the lower floors
Tried to play strive two days ago, "couldn't load R code" error message.
f me I guess.
hey! Just started playing GGS recently and found your channel recently too. I'm coming from Super Smash Ultimate and honestly, so many things about strive are so much better than over there at nintendo. Comparing the two, personally I've had a much, much better experience with Strive. While the server connecting issue can be annoying in strive, it's honestly nothing compared to the online experience in SSBU. Online matchmaking systems, unfortunately suck in most games. This Isse needs to be adressed tho, so thanks for raising awareness
Don't worry, I was still having the same exact issue today, it hasn't been fixed. You just got lucky :)
I guess I'll be playing Rivals of Aether in the meantime till GG is playable again.
Idk if you mention it but I don't fucking care it needs to be said as many times as it takes.
They NEED. Let me repeat ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NEED TO FIX SPECTATE ROTATIONS IN BEST OF 2/3/5 RULESETS IN PLAYER MATCHES.
When there are 4 or more people in a player match set to first to 2 or whatever, no matter who wins or loses the set, BOTH PLAYERS GET BOOTED TO THE BACK OF THE LINE. I fucking, HATE this shit with a fucking PASSION.
I just want 5 dudes going ft2 rotations, getting high, spectating and chatting.
HE MENTIONED SKULLGIRLS LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO. NEW CHARACTER JSUT DROPPED HIGHLY RECOMMEND TO EVERY ONE YOU GIVE THE GAME A TRY IF YOU HAVEN'T
dude, I bought it on January, I'm so sad I can't play my now second favorite game because it just doesn't want to work
For me the reason why I didn't really like Strive, I just prefer the high speed and aggressiveness of Xrd and Accent Core. Sure I love the artstyle, music, and visuals of strive, but gameplay wise and how it much more slow similar to Street Fighter kinda turned me off a bit.
Been replaying dark souls 3 waiting for this to be fixed lmao
The servers are 99% of the reason why I'm not playing Strive currently
Normally I'd be hype for a new character, but I couldn't possibly care less about Bedman releasing if it's impossible to play the fucker online
I'm finding myself watching the game more than playing it, the servers are WAY too inconsistent
I thought it would be it's rudimentary gameplay
The game for me doesn’t even allow me to quick play a match. Or get into a lobby. It never gave me that problem before on my Xbox or pc so the servers are really really bad at the moment
The servers have not gotten better. I pray that this is fixed with the release of Bedman? because if this keeps up idk if I really want to keep playing.
For anyone seeking matches, sitting in training mode is the worst way to find matches. You wanna always be joining people manually.
The issue the game has is with pairing people automatically. The automatic mechanism is screwed up. So when you have two people trying to automatically fight eachother it trips up on itself. It has some flavor of this issue since the first beta back in 2019.
What you wanna do is limit the automatic process as much as possible and manually join people.
If you wanna warm up in training mode just play offline for a bit.
(this will not fix the issue where the game just decides two people are incompatible and refuses to match them, that's a separate issue and you just have to give up if that ever happens, also try not to be on wifi)
most of the time manual has never worked for me lol, only training mode lol
I think the best way to fix this is to make a basic lobby system that fighterz has
They're never going to do that. Rebuilding the lobby system from the ground up would take way too much time and resources.
The servers are from an influx of players they weren't ready for.(Dev's said this) The servers can only handle so many matches at once, so people end up having to wait for matches to finish.(Including rematches. Also, waiting in training mode is considered being 'in a match' so this counts against the total. This is shown by the error you get when you try to go into matchmaking training mode, with all matches full.) It sucks. 2 days in a row I tried to get a game for 30 mins, couldn't, so I went to play something else. SUPPOSEDLY if you turn off crossplay, it's much more stable. And not playing during peak helps.
I do like the tower though. It's nice to be able to physically see the people you are matching against. It makes waits less Boring I guess.
What’re you onnnnn abouttt, fight me then.
Yea Strive's UX sucks. One thing I've found that works for me where I literally don't meet this problem trying to play the game. Granted yes, the game should fucking work. For the entire week people were saying they were having problems I would just hop on a cab and if it doesn't connect? Don't even retry, just try a different cab. Kinda sucks that training matchmaking doesn't work but I started having zero issues just immediately choosing another cab when one fails either playing with someone already there or there was a failure while I was sitting on a cab.
It sucks but this has worked for me and I'm able to play a lot of games despite everyone else saying the servers are broken.