The time has come, we have finally automatized the exhausting room joining and map voting experience. At the click of a button you can now find the perfect game to play!

So let's

The Matchmaker can be found in the Multiplayer section of most lobbies. You will be presented with a list of possible game types to play, as well as a short description of these. Choose your favourite ones!


Dialogues will look differently depending on your lobby

After selecting the preferred gametype(s), you can still join rooms or spectate battles until a game is found. If you decide to play in a custom battle, the Matchmaker will disable automatically.



Once a match has been found, you can either accept or deny it. Keep in mind that denying comes with a five minute Matchmaking exclusion. When all players have accepted, you will be put directly into the game, no votes, no delays. Should the game not happen due to somebody declining, the Matchmaker will automatically continue looking for games.

You can find more details on the wiki page.

Have fun playing!

Known Issues

Weblobby doesn't recognize the 103+develop engine. You'll need to rename

Documents\My Games\Spring\engine\103.0.1-124-g976888c develop

to

Documents\My Games\Spring\engine\103.0.1-124-g976888c

and then rejoin the battle.

What happens if you accept but don't connect or leave the game immediately?

How should it change? Maybe I have temporary connection issues or I'm restarting the game. On the other hand I could have left it completely which should count as declining the ready check if it happens early on. Should put some work to differentiate between the two, and provide a way for people to reconnect to their MM game.

the 5 minute penalty seems a bit harsh, whats the purpose of this?

we should make a moddb announcement about this.

5 mins ban is industry standard I think and frequent decliner would be punished by hand I think.

it's also what declined mean. I mean quitting an already started match is bad. But declined by dialog because you shanged your mind should be allowed


Side note, can this support tournament?

Ban timer has been reduced to only 30s for now.
Same system is likely to be used (with minor changes) for Planetwars which I count as a sort of tourney.

For regular tourneys I think its easier to just open room and manage it yourself, no need for automation there..

Declining is punished the same way.. Basically if you refuse, or disconnect, or something like this while you have invitation active, it gives you a penalty.

Atm there are too few people to try queueing as team, we never even had team game running, just 1v1s.

Oh ZKL UI works perfectly AFAIK. No known bugs/issues its production ready pretty much in ZKL.

Oh I agree with Google. Don't rush with releasing this. Chobby aside, I don't think that you've tested this properly yet (not largescale enough).

I've played around a dozen 1v1 games without any problems (103). Using dev engine for MM does cause some problems now though.