Many players are disconnected from chat, and this is causing issues, especially for new players
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I have noticed numerous times that someone in a lobby or in a game will not show up when I search their name in chat. They are connected to FAF but not in Aeolus. I myself have sometimes tabbed back in to find I am not in Aeolus and have to reconnect. Occasionally even when starting the client.
Reconnecting to aeolus is easy and pretty much instant. However, if I don't manually check and find out I am disconnected then I won't rejoin. Usually I am open to joining games on good maps if someone pings me, Stuff like that can't happen without being in chat. Additionally it now looks like there are fewer people on FAF than there reallly is if you go by the number of people in chat. This can be demoralising if you see fewer people online including your friends, even if they are clearly playing games.
Earlier tonight at the end of a game someone really new to the game expressed sadness about not playing well. I was going to message him to join the discord so Grimplex or some other boss can help him ascend. Maybe he would try it or maybe he wouldn't, who knows. But this couldn't happen since he wasn't in chat, and I knew he was online because he joined another lobby. Anyways if anyone happens to see ReginaldVonCluck you can let him know that he doesn't have to dig his way out of -200 rating on his own.
I think a conversation on some measures to automatically connect people to aeolus is worthwhile. Maybe a few people are off of chat on purpose but there I do not believe that can be more than a tiny fraction. Of course if there is some other factor at play then I would appreciate learning about that as well.
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The auto reconnect to chat was a victim of changes made to mitigate the ddos attacks and just has not been recoded yet
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Ah ok, thanks that is nice to hear.