Hi sorry to bug someone or whatever.
I played a game of tier 3 lockdown about a week ago, and i got absolutely battered. It makes a lot of sense, but it bugged me.
Team still won, somehow, and after having spectated a few matches I now actually have a vague understanding of how it works.
Basically I built a set of gear for Tier 2 lockdown (because 5starring stuff is way more effort and ce for me at the moment), fully heated it, got the baby trinkets and the works (not at the stage of UV's on all my stuff but I'm sure that'll come in time)
So, proud of myself for having done all this work, I sign up for lockdown.
After realizing I was queueing for Tier 3 (because I hadn't changed my shield which I didn't think was important) I queued for Tier 2 in Europe.
I was in the queue for about an hour, almost permanently 4-8 waiting to play, never got pulled out of haven, yada yada. So I changed zones and made it sign me up for the US servers instead. I guess it's late am or early pm across the states right now, or an our or two ago, so I wasn't too hopeful anyone would be on, but there was all of this life there, 15-40 waiting to play, and so on.
I thought that was great I'd get some games in, work out what I needed (if I should get more weapons, its what 3 hours work and a few CE for a 3 star weapon; new armor, something like that) go get it while doing other stuff i need to do (heating 4star stuff and the like)
2 hours later I was STILL in haven, queueing for lockdown. I thought that this was a bit much, and kinda gave up, swapped to a 5star striker set and re-enlisted.
Again, an hour later, no movement, despite (now consistently) higher numbers in the waiting/playing area.
I guess when I pressed 'spectate' there weren't many tier 2 games to watch or whatever.
How does it work, is the number of people waiting the number of people waiting for lockdown in general or for your tier? Is there some other additional restriction on when you will be bumped into the game, or do you take further back positions in the queue if something's wrong? Why the hell did I waste 3 hours of life standing around in haven doing absolutely nothing other than check the AH? Can you not be moved into the arena when you are in a menu like AH? I mean i tried 15 minutes of just walking around and that didn't do it either.
Are lockdown games in general really so infrequent that you stand around for hours doing nothing?
U queued for tier 2 right? Sometimes tier 2 doesnt have enough players but iwhen it says an amount of players are queued it shows both tier 2 and tier 3 players also tier 1. To check if there are any tier 2 games going on go to spectate and there you can see. If there isnt, either change to tier 3 or do something else but dont wait forever for the game :0 hope this helps
Edit i forgot to add, the players shown in the queue is only for the region ur playing in, but spectate is not