BeakedAxe

It's never really bothered me, but it seems many players are less happy with current matchmaking. They suspect new players have advantages and look to "even the playing field." If Vigor were to go to matchmaking by KPE then it solves everybody's problems... 1) New players get a benefit since by definition their KPE is 0. So instead of worrying about sweats they get some time to adjust to the game. 2) Loot and scoot players might have higher XP or Battlepass levels, but probably have lower KPE. Again, likeminded players get what they want. Lobbies not full of hardened killers. 3) Hard Core Killers (high KPE) also benefit as they get to play others like themselves. Sounds like a great way to satiate their bloodlust without ruining the game for others. Like I said, I'm fine with the way it is now, but if Vigor wants to tweak matchmaking, KPE is the way to go.

I'm been successfully playing Fjellkanten (the middle set of game rotation) and Snodekt (Top left set of encounters) but I can't get Sagbruk (top right set of encounters) to load. I can select the encounter, it proceeds normally to get server, prepare server, and then start the screen with the pic of the sawmill, as if the players were going to load, BUT they and actual gameplay never load. Little wheel of progress in lower right keeps spinning but I inevitably wait 10+ minutes, and then have to exit out, restarting both xbox and vigor. Any suggestions?

I had high hopes that this most recent update might include a fix for my bug. Unfortunately this was not to be. I still can't play Sagbruk. Same as it ever was...select map, find & prep server, start to load lobby, but never see players in lobby. Only see background splash page until completely booted out of Vigor back to xbox home screen. Please help.

Here you go...Clip ends when I get kicked out of vigor and sent back to xbox home screen. https://www.xbox.com/play/media/BPATBL8B

Further update...In the midst of playing FJ and just returned to shelter from encounter. Noticed Sagbruk was in 3rd slot and tried to play. Selected Sagbruk at 11:10am CDT and spent 4 minutes in splash screen before being dumped completely out of game back to xbox home page. Had to reenter vigor. So it seems it's a single map problem. FYI.

Update...Just tried Kjerstein in 3rd slot when it rotated in at 10:25am CDT. I successfully spawned and played (ran to exit) so 3rd slot generally seems more successful. Noted a new remark awaiting spawn "requesting token". Not sure if new or just hadn't noticed before. FYI...I am watching for Sagbruk and will test it if possible.

As of yesterday (last time I tried) still no Sagbruk. Playing xbox one. Location is south central US in CDT. I have a busy work schedule so I try to fit my Vigor in where I can. To do that I rely on the map rotation schedule so that I can fit Vigor into my work breaks accordingly. I can tell you that as far as I know there was no problem before the 2 most recent map rotation changes (going from 1hr to 45min, and rotating the maps shown in the 3rd position). I am not aware of when Sagbruk might now appear in 1st or 2nd spot. Or even that it currently di appear in 1st/2nd. I will try and watch for it so I can test. Certainly when Sagbruk was in 1st or 2nd before latest map rotation changes there was no problem. As far as 3rd position, I have only interest in Sagbruk so that's what I have tried. I did (mentioned above) successfully play Anniken in the 3rd position last week so there's that. I will also test more in 3rd spot generally. Thanks.

Update: Today Sunday April 3 I just finished playing FJ (in the middle set of encounters) during the tranche that ran from 10:50am CDT (US) through 11:35am CDT. I'm playing in the south central US. As I logged in to start to play (about 10:35am CDT) I noted that Sagbruk was being offered in the top right 3rd set of encounters. As this was different to my earlier experience (Sagbruk usually showing up after FJ, not before) I tried to play it. Same experience as earlier...I selected Sagbruk as my encounter, the search for an encounter began, we waited for a server, the server was being prepared, and then the Sagbruk splash screen was shown. Same experience...never saw player silhouettes, nothing on players/lobby at all, just the splash screen with sawmill picture and the spinning progress wheel in the lower right. But there was 1 difference. After about 3 minutes Vigor tossed me completely out of the game. The spinning progress wheel stopped, and I saw my xbox home screen. I restarted my xbox, logged back in to Vigor, and noted that my loadout was still intact. Then I proceeded to play 45 minutes of FJ as usual. But this time, after FJ finished, I saw that Anniken was in the upper right 3rd set of encounters. So I selected it and waited to see what happened. To my surprise, Anniken player lobby loaded correctly and I was put into the encounter. Luckily I was spawned near an exit so I immediately exited to preserve my experience. Conclusion: I'm having a specific problem with Sagbruk map (not the 3rd set of encounters). Vigor devs, please help. Thanks.

Another day, another failure to play Sagbruk, or any other games on that top right 3rd set of encounters. Vigor devs, please help. Thanks.

I always appreciate your reasoned approach to this game. It helps to have veterans like you keeping the ship going straight, Thanks.

Matthew, I agree with "A", but I'm not so sure "B"...I play a loot style (2,000+ encounters) and have a low kpe (0.04). I go out of my way to avoid gunfights but I understand if they see me they're going to be shooting. So I do shoot back. Just because I'd be playing with other low kpe outlanders isn't going to turn me into a murder machine...but if it did, my kpe would rise and I'd move up to tougher matches. It's a self-correcting approach.

Update...Since I had a couple hours until my preferred maps rolled around again, I uninstalled Vigor from xbox, deleted all local content, reset my xbox and cleared it's cache, reset my network and forced a new IP address. Then I put Humpty Dumpty back together again. I logged on to xbox, reinstalled a fresh vigor download, and synced up everything afresh with the cloud. It wasn't really any help. I played games on the 1st and 2nd set of encounters no problem, but after FJ rolled off I tried again to play Sagbruk for the last 15 minutes or so before it rolled off. No dice. Same experience. Clicked to play Sagbruk, looked for encounter, found server, prepared server, showed splash screen with sawmill, the hints kept rotating on the lower left, and the little wheel of progress kept spinning in the lower right. Only problem was that waiting for players and player loading screens never showed up. Just stuck on the splash screen. It seems that Vigor's servers/cloud/whatever just doesn't like me playing that 3rd set of encounters shown on the upper right of the screen. At this point, since I've fully uninstalled, reset, and reinstalled on my xbox, and I can play the left and center set of encounters, it seems like this bug/glitch must be somewhere on the vigor server side of things. Please help so I don't squander my double xp weekend. Thanks.

I know that variety is the spice of life, but I have very very limited opportunities to play Vigor (especially during the week) so I try to "make time" for my favorite maps when I can. Now that's all out the window and I haven't actually played an encounter all week. Now that it's the weekend I expected to get some time in but guess what...another map rotation change. Please stop. Suggestion: Please publish the map rotation and timing so players can prioritize/optimize their Vigor play time. If you published the rotation and timing at least I wouldn't be clueless about when I could find my favorite maps. Just looking for a schedule really. Thanks.

Thanks. I hit 50 today and was a bit surprised to see no more XP but it is still adding XP to my legacy season.

New player that started after your last DXPW. Any chance we might get another soon? Thanks.

Yeah, Just started and was grinding the Battle Pass. And it was really starting to be a grind. This helped me so much.

A great big thanks to the Vigor team...With the DXPW I was able to complete levels 45, 46, 47, 48, and 49. After fearing I was going to come up short, I now think I'll hit level 50 tomorrow, with a week to spare. Thanks again.

Much better today...Thanks to all the Vigor fans, friends and team for your help and suggestions. Merry Christmas.

Since the maintenance you did on the server, Im having problems with the connection to the server. It takes time to open the game and get to the shelter, it takes time to get to the shelter after an encounter. The game crashes more times than usual. My preset takes time to enter loadout. I also get brief in-game freezes especially when opening loot containers or when a pop up message loads (like challenge, or featured store items). Before the recent server maintenance none of this happened! I'm a new user (started about 1 month ago, bought premium battle pass and legacy season 2 around Dec 11, and am now working to reach level 35). Starting yesterday I can't even get the game to fully load on xbox, Sometimes I get the xbox error message "Please try again. Vigor took too long to start. (0x8027025a)". If the game does start to load correctly (I get to the "Welcome Outlander" screen and press A to start. I see the credits, see Initializing, Logging into Cloud Service, then Loading Data, and Synchronizing Purchases) it stalls out once I get to the Shelter background image with the "My Garden" sign. I see the shelter in the background, the text "Waiting..." , hear the "static" noise, and see the spinning compass loading indicator in bottom right of screen. It spins, stops, spins, stops, spins, and then finally stops for good with everything frozen. I cannot even get in to collect food/materials/parts/crowns, can't see daily challenges, nothing at this point. I've been completely unable to log in these past 24 hours. Please help. I'm in the US, my ISP is Comcast, My modem/router auto provides both IPV4 and IPV6. Thanks.

Definitely made some progress...Can consistently load game, handle shelter tasks, and enter encounters. But 1 huge issue remains: If I loot an individual item, like a toolbox or a jug, loot works fine. But any time I loot a box, cabinet, or crate (resulting in a pop up window showing loot detail) my game completely freezes. As in I must reboot to get out of the freeze. Any help please?

Good news, bad news. Good news is that I was able to log in after completely resetting my console to factory and redownloading Vigor. Bad news is that after 1 reasonably good encounter I completely froze in the midst of my 2nd encounter. I was looting and the game froze. I waited for an unfreeze but the screen went black and kicked me back to the xbox home screen. I was near the locked container so I assume that I was a frozen sitting duck for someone else around and died. But I just don't know.

Today is Day 3 of the Vigor hostage crisis...Still no log in for me. Another day of no daily login, no challenges, and no XP. @GimbleFIN_ thanks for the suggestions. I had done both but not together. Now I have and still no joy. Next steps look like resetting my console to factory. Hate the idea of redoing all my apps and games but I'm really missing a lot of extra holiday playtime that could make/break my quest to hit level 50 so I'm willing to take extreme measures. Any help from @fOrsythiaa or the Vigor team would be much appreciated.

Update...Just spent another 30 minutes trying unsuccessfully to log on. Same symptoms and results as above. In between I played a quick few minutes on FarCry just to prove that it's a Vigor issue as opposed to an inability to play xbox downloaded games. Please help.

I am a new player on XBox and am having the same issue. I'm in the US and my ISP is Comcast. Sorry for hijacking thread but I can't post yet as a new forum member.