For the past few months, I’ve been joining random private games when creating one for only those in my party.

There’s also packet loss and latency variation that only happens in tournaments. I’ll play competitive matches right before and after tournaments with no issue, but the game becomes unplayable in tournament matches.

Earlier today, I joined a 3v3 tournament as a team with 2 other party members. I got matched with a random while still being in the party, then a minute into the match, one of my party members joined. The third party member still had “joining match” on their screen.

You’d think some of that money from the $20 DLC cars could go towards upgrading the servers or fixing the game. It’s frustrating when you want to play with friends but can’t because the game doesn’t work properly.