Rotwood Matchmaking

[JoeW]

Rotwood Matchmaking

In Rotwood players will have access to multiple matchmaking tools. We have built systems to allow you players to effectively create their own lobbies to provide direct and indirect control over who you play with.

Some of this is pretty unique, so we thought it would be worth explaining.

Between Friends
In Rotwood, you can see online players from your friends list and join with them directly. Simply click the join link and you're off.

This feature is limited to privacy settings, so players with their profiles set to private will not be shown. 

With a Code
When a game is created a special code is generated for the host. Provide this code to anybody you want. Message your code directly to friends or post it online for random people to join.

Simply choose “Join a Game” and enter the code.  Anybody can join with a code as long as there is still room in the group. 

Steam Groups

This is where it gets interesting.

Rather than traditional lobbies we have made use of Steam Community Groups to allow players to curate and moderate their own lobbies. You can either use groups that you are already a part of, or create your own group and add whoever you like.

A Steam group can have tens or hundreds of thousands of players. Once some groups are established, being part of these groups will provide large random matchmaking lobbies.

Players can list their games to their favorite groups and choose which groups to match with.

As the host. When you create your game, choose which Steam Groups you would like to have access to your game. Other random players will then be able to join your game from their group menu.

 

As a player, join a game, select a group you would like to find a game in and you will be randomly added to one of the games in the group.

For more information about Steam Community Groups, click here.  

Discord Servers

We are working directly with Discord on similar functionality for Discord Servers, coming soon. Like Steam Groups, you will be able to list and join games with players who are also members of your Discord servers that you are part of.

While that’s not quite ready yet, you can currently list your game in Discord Servers to channels that allow it.

With Rotwood open and a game hosted, click the + symbol in the chat box and choose “Invite #ChannelName to Play Rotwood”. Anybody with access to that channel will be able to instantly join your game.

And finally - If you see somebody playing Rotwood in Discord and they have their game open to other players, You can click their name and ask to join from there!

 

[molivious]

Thank you for all these features and options! The discord implementation of open lobbies and the ability to choose your own restrictions with it is such a neat idea.

[BlueCabernet]

Thank you for these features and options!

May I add some suggestion?

Can we have a lobby where it shows everyone on the READY or something similarly?

The host in my game session finishes their character and started the game, while eveyone else isn't done yet. So it started with random characters for those who isn't finished yet. And we have to restart(abandon the run) and re-create those characters.

Thank you!