How long does it take to find a match in Concord right now? The problem Sony’s new first-person shooter is facing is that it’s an online-only experience, designed to be played in games of up to ten players. This is all well and good when a title has a huge community, but with Steam figures totalling in the hundreds and speculation suggesting the release has only sold around 25k copies, it means matchmaking times are increasing.
Your experience will vary, of course, and it’ll depend on your location and the time of day you’re trying to play. Still, we decided to run a match in each of the game’s main playlists and stopwatch the matchmaking times just to get an indication. For transparency, we started our test a little after 2PM on a Sunday in the UK, so it was still early morning in New York and Los Angeles. Nevertheless, these were our findings with crossplay enabled:
- Brawl
- 1:01
- Overrun
- 0:58
- Rivalry
- 8:18
While one minute is a little on the high side, it’s perfectly playable and ultimately not much longer than it takes to setup a match on Fortnite, although obviously you’re talking about 100 player battles and longer rounds in that case, so the scales aren’t anywhere near the same. Rivalry is, in our opinion, unplayable at this point, though – we even experienced a server time out during one attempt.