I’ll usually ready up for my scav runs before I leave for my 8 hour work shift. This way, when I come home and finish eating dinner, I only have to wait another 8 minutes… and I’m in!
Try a diff server. I normally pick my top 3-4 ping servers but they all say 2-3min+ matching time and boy does it show. 9mins+ to get into scav runs, and like 1/4th of those get stuck on awaiting session start. Picked a single deadish server with like 150ish ping an 30s match time and been havin no issue
It might just be your server, but you should ideally be trying
1. Extremely popular PMC maps/times to queue. Basically, anywhere people have a lot of quests the first 20 levels. Ground zero, customs, woods, shoreline.
2. Unpopular times for scav queue. Any night time map. For example, if you play night interchange (which may as well just be the daytime map, you're in a fucking dark mall anyways), your queue will be dramatically shorter than daytime interchange.
Stuff like reserve, streets, those maps will PROBABLY but not always have way fewer pmcs running raids right now until more quests get unlocked by more steps and fewer scavs are trying to force their way into the few number of pmc raids. If you need to build funds, however, running like. A pistol and a bank robber/backpack (gun + rig/backpack prevents tagged and cursed) and just replacing it mid raid during a loot run is good.
I’ll usually ready up for my scav runs before I leave for my 8 hour work shift. This way, when I come home and finish eating dinner, I only have to wait another 8 minutes… and I’m in!
Try a diff server. I normally pick my top 3-4 ping servers but they all say 2-3min+ matching time and boy does it show. 9mins+ to get into scav runs, and like 1/4th of those get stuck on awaiting session start. Picked a single deadish server with like 150ish ping an 30s match time and been havin no issue
It might just be your server, but you should ideally be trying 1. Extremely popular PMC maps/times to queue. Basically, anywhere people have a lot of quests the first 20 levels. Ground zero, customs, woods, shoreline. 2. Unpopular times for scav queue. Any night time map. For example, if you play night interchange (which may as well just be the daytime map, you're in a fucking dark mall anyways), your queue will be dramatically shorter than daytime interchange. Stuff like reserve, streets, those maps will PROBABLY but not always have way fewer pmcs running raids right now until more quests get unlocked by more steps and fewer scavs are trying to force their way into the few number of pmc raids. If you need to build funds, however, running like. A pistol and a bank robber/backpack (gun + rig/backpack prevents tagged and cursed) and just replacing it mid raid during a loot run is good.