Dauntless is so popular the waiting times are over three hours

Dauntless, the free-to-play co-op fantasy RPG, is rather popular. How popular, I hear you ask? Popular enough for players to be reporting a three-hour wait to even get into the game, with many encountering Dauntless' matchmaking in progress bug. If you're one of those players eagerly waiting to sample it for yourself, you'll be happy to know that Phoenix Labs, the game's developer, is keeping everyone up to date with its attempts to fix the issue via its Twitter:

As the tweet above shows, now you won't just be shown that you have to wait three hours to play (*sharp intake of breath*), as instead you'll get to see your position in the queue. In fact, they've doubled the capacity of Dauntless already, meaning that it should be easier for more people to play. Apparently it is working on a one-in-one-out system at the moment, and it's no wonder as it recently announced that its playerbase has grown to over 4 million players. Wowzers. Phoenix Labs has said that the alternate possibility was "to turn things off. We decided it would be better for people to play (but potentially wait a while) than to not be able to play at all". Fair enough. 

If you're after some other online games to play while you wait for Dauntless, here's the best online games to play right now, or look below to see the E3 2019 games you should get excited about!

Zoe Delahunty-Light

While here at GamesRadar, Zoe was a features writer and video presenter for us. She's since flown the coop and gone on to work at Eurogamer where she's a video producer, and also runs her own Twitch and YouTube channels. She specialises in huge open-world games, true crime, and lore deep-dives. 

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