Custom Games have breathed new life into the game for me on PC.

Just wanted to make a post about custom lobbies on PC, the wait times for queues are usually incredibly long, outside of peak hours you can forget about playing outside of popular rated costs. recently someone recommended I just make a custom lobby. And it's been amazing.

Everything is better except the slightly reduced EXP rewards, you can pick any cost you like and people will usually hop in, we even had 200/250 cost lobbies going the other day.

People generally stick around or leave one or two at a time. no re-queuing and waiting for all ten people, a couple minutes between matches usually.

There's actual map variety since it's truly random, Port Base (Sunset), Military Port, Trenches are maps I love that I haven't played in forever. No having to deal with 95% of games being on Arctic Base/Impact Site/Colony Drop.

People genuinely seem more laid back, usually only a couple of meta picks, wacky comps like 4 Supports or All Raids. Not a single Demeter or Yongfavin (they aren't nerfed yet on PC) I can remember.

and the biggest one for me is: you can play with friends. It's basically impossible to group queue if you're not around during the 3-ish hours people queue for em. and even then the single ground queue means you're stuck to only one cost. So having the option for custom lobbies as a way for us to play together has completely revitalized the game for me and the friends who fell off of it.