Drop in Battles really do work

So I played two drop in battles for my campaign today and it worked flawlessly. I found an opponent within a minute and there were no issues with the battle. On one I won and the other I got trounced. It was a nice change from playing the AI. Now even playing N/N, with drop-in on all possible battles, can be quite a challenge! This is a great feature.

When your game loaded did you have your name listed or a generals name listed? IF you had your name listed you actualy played a quick battle since this is what Drop in battle revert too when they can't find a Camp game quick enough.
The best way to tell is this way.

Campaign Battle will:
1> List the generals names fighting instead of players in the loading screen
2> Unit sizes will be the default of the campaign player.

Quick Battle
1.List your names in the battle load screen.
2.All quick battles have small unit sizes.

I have played 9 So far and I have had only 2 real games that were part of someones campaign. The rest were crappy quick battles with small unit sizes.

Its a nice feature but they need to disable that quick battle part. I want to play in someones campaign with large unit sizes. Not a crappy quick battle.

they were generals and I know it was from a campaign because it was MY campaign. I'm not terribly interested in playing battles for other people's campaigns honesty.

Oh ok then.. yeah then you played a drop in battle.

i would love to play a drop in battle someday as your enemy. not enough people doing it though.

honesty i found it a bit weird that there are more people trying to drop into games than people trying to find others to play their campaign battles, i thought it would be the opposite

Originally Posted by Rizzmond

honesty i found it a bit weird that there are more people trying to drop into games than people trying to find others to play their campaign battles, i thought it would be the opposite

I have anger issues. So to be safe I play someone elses were I have no vested interest in the outcome.

Alright, I just did my first drop in battle with my campaign. It seems like it would be just awesome, but..It was painfully laggy. You didn't have any lag with yours? On my comp I have all settings turned up and have ultra settings for unit size..and it usually works perfect for just me. I wonder if I need to start a new campaign with unit size set to large. Either that or maybe just a bad connection between the two of us... I will try one more.

My last one which actually ended up being a Quick battle not an actual drop in battle was laggy as hell.

So much so that I say it cost me the game.

no lag at all and I was running on ultra unit sizes with high/ultra settings and all effects but SSAO enabled. Seems to be just luck of the draw, you got somebody with a crappy connection/slow simulation speed.

Originally Posted by Rizzmond

no lag at all and I was running on ultra unit sizes with high/ultra settings and all effects but SSAO enabled. Seems to be just luck of the draw, you got somebody with a crappy connection/slow simulation speed.

Good to hear, I'll give it another go right now.

That's not good news, since quick battle would have small unit sizes..