happy to find end of testing :P feels like relief

that's not true, but influence on missions is (very) limited. I managed to finish 1 mission. However, am I wrong as I think that slowing down mission fulfillment is a goal of match making system?

What happens quite often in match making is very annoying. Waiting, then it starts a game, but it doesn;t open the battle. Only the progress bar occurs and that keeps running endlessly (I tried). This happens in about 10% of the battles I started. Probably more. Certainly more, 2 out or 5 so far. update 12:04 (CET); this is not only annoying, but even just crap. How can you seriously test servers for speed etc (see vid) and have these type of errors still in the system. Useless bench marking. If my programmers would do this type of bench marking, our systems would fail.

This is exactly my point. I want to stay in free mode, so far I was able to reach generalissimo but you have to make some choices :huh: . So it makes sense to have a good battle and mission choice too. And with limited but carefully chosen equipment I dont want to be depending on system choices.

This is what I mean with my post; I joined a Forest battle with legends only in the other team; in my team a also a few legends but also several dudes of my rank. Why join such an unbalanced battle; I would normally never do. Useless from my point of view. But I have to say; access was very quick, a few seconds only :). So lost not that much time; but still meaningless

still tried several games, but it is really bad. I join battles which I usually never would join. For example:a battle with almost all legends. No chance in such a game, so I leave and have to wait for next. This isnt funny anyway. I want to know which map I join, and who's playing there. BTW: waiting time in Quick battle is rather ok.

I tried this for a while and it's horrible. Waiting isn't my way of playing TO. When this would be a permanent update and the only way of playing, it would be a reason to leave immediately. And trust me, I play TO for quite some time now (3rd account, or so).