I guess I’m kinda necroing this thread but, from my group’s searches, this isn’t an isolated or rare incident. The matchmaking is just broken for groups trying to do, in our case, Ranked Team Adventure. Everything the people have said here is exactly what myself and group of three friends, who have been considering buy the game and currently playing on GamePass, are experiencing. It’s kinda ridiculous that doing this part of online requires so many tricks but, more often than that, comes with so many failures in our ability to compete together.
Whoever posted the helpful tips, that’s pretty much the stuff we figured out or thought of too. To the person who’s restarting their game with their friend and still having issues, I don’t think restarting the client is helping.
Three friends and I have a ridiculous circus full of ups and downs trying to get matchmaking to work, including that person’s workarounds. We’ll all be on voice and the leader, which we pass around to try to increase our odds, says “did you guys get that?” If it’s followed by a “yes”, we sit on the edge of our seats to see if it goes through or stops at 11/12 and then fails due to lack of people. If it doesn’t go through, we have to try some tricks just to make it where the queue will pop for everyone. It’s like there’s two blocks keeping us from being able to play multiplayer adventure together, having everyone get the session invite and then having the session get 12/12 so it’ll start. Otherwise, it’s a mess of trying to think of tricks to get the game to work correctly.
I’d say that the bugs in the system probably don’t help and it becomes a continuous bottleneck of “not enough players” or long queue times for others. Likewise, people like my three friends who don’t have teh game fully but are considering purchasing it and its DLCs are turned off by how much of a headache it is. For all the perfections and imperfections in this game, in my short time playing, this is actually gamebreaking as it makes an area of the game unplayable without some finessing or major headaches on the end-user’s side of things.
We are all on PC, have no problems playing any other game together, all live in the same city. The Online Adventure is something extra to do and a lot of us are into PvP. The ranked adventure is a good time-sink and way to play the game for us, yet it’s made very difficult by systems which need fixed. I may try to make a video but all of the symptoms are in the multiple posts I’ve seen about this problem and heard about this problem from other players, so I know it’s not just a portion of players having the issue. If a good number seem quiet about it, they’ve either been very lucky, play solo or just work around it and/or deal with it.