Multiplayer service is a joke!

Before I start my rant, I want to express my full love for the remake! It’s just great in almost every way.

However, the multiplayer is such a chore! Even after the update. Lobbies are not visible, it takes too long to go online after hosting, and the connection is sometimes really bad, even though I have a good internet connection. The map pool is large, but it always gives me and my friends the same three maps. But worst of all: Yesterday, every game I played lost connection in the middle of the match, and after reconnecting, every participant has to rejoin. In one game that lost connection, we had 8 players. After 10 minutes, 7 of us rejoined and everyone pressed “ready”… but the game wouldn’t start because the one player who wasn’t paying attention in the first place didn’t rejoin the lobby. Thanks, I guess.

I’m just disappointed when you have around 3 hours to play and have fun with your friends, but end up with barely 40 minutes of fun because of connection errors.

It’s not a brand-new indie game from a small dev team. It’s fricking Microsoft! And they know how important multiplayer is in the “Age of” series. How could this happen?

Anyway, great game! Love the gameplay and the new changes! Hope they fix it soon!