Pennant Race

[markprior22]

I started trying to play pennant race for the first time yesterday. Today, as well as yesterday, no opponent is found. I've selected my team, etc. When I click "find game"...bottom right of the screen says "finding game" but it is only for half a second or so and goes back to standard "online." Am I doing something wrong or is no one playing this mode?


Thanks

[DarthRambo]

Re: Pennant Race

Sometimes it takes a while to find a match.

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[markprior22]

Re: Pennant Race

I did notice a message about the current season is getting ready to end in a few hours. Should you be able to jump into a pennant race game at any point, or is it too late in the "season" for a new team to play?

[DabCity]

Re: Pennant Race

You can jump in at any time. In the last few hours, it can get weird. As people jockey for positions, it sometimes it's better to stop. Also, the guys playing are mostly at the bottom so you can sometimes get a good run of games against guys that a struggling and anxiously trying to play a ton of games and make up wins. But overall, people tend to wait for the next PR to start.

The game does a nice job of matchmaking. The longer it takes, the more likely you will play someone with a significantly higher or lower Ego.

[markprior22]

Re: Pennant Race

Thanks for the info. Tried a few more times today but can't get matched up.

Is it normal for it to search for an opponent for less than a second? I've got good wifi and am definitely online. The way it only looks for a split second makes me wonder if it's not working right on my console.

Thanks again

[DarthRambo]

Re: Pennant Race

Thanks for the info. Tried a few more times today but can't get matched up.

Is it normal for it to search for an opponent for less than a second? I've got good wifi and am definitely online. The way it only looks for a split second makes me wonder if it's not working right on my console.

Thanks again

Not sure why it's stopping the search. I just hit find game and wait around 3min or so usually. Sometimes it can take up to 5min or slightly longer. But never does it time out and stop searching for me. That's pretty odd if that's happening. No idea why it would.

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[markprior22]

Re: Pennant Race

I saw on Reddit that quite a few people are experiencing what I am. Appears to be a glitch...hopefully fixed soon.

[markprior22]

Re: Pennant Race

So this ended up being an issue with linked accounts on EA.com. In my case there were 2 accounts linked with no way to unlink. I contacted EA and they were able to delete the old, unused account. Might be something to check if anyone else runs into this issue.

[DabCity]

Re: Pennant Race

Yeah, EA's constant connection means it gets cut off whenever it goes idle, and then depending on the game, it may or may not come back up. It also means it can get more confused when accounts are mixed.

For whatever reason, NHL gets it perfect. I can quickly resume, see the read the red message, click on my season, and it just connects. Madden usually locks up and you have to restart the entire game, making quick resume pointless. The Golf game is pretty good about reconnecting with one click.

But SMB3 has always had quick resume issues, even before it was for multiple games on XB1. I think combining SMB with EA was only going to complicate that. More games are starting to get better at this, but sports games have generally lagged well behind.

I wish Xbox had a setting to not allow games to use quick resume, so I could just add Madden and NBA2K to the list, as well as SMB4.

[Davis2023]

Re: Pennant Race

The way it only looks for a split second makes me wonder if it's not working right on my console.