Being added to a losing team

[MistressMoth]

Is anyone else really fed up with consistently being added to a team in the last minute or less of a game onto a losing team? I feel like there needs to be stronger disciplinary action for people who abandon games instead of punishing the people who want to get into a new match, no? Making for an unpleasant experience, otherwise love this game. :(

[Krazy Wallet]

It's a tough issue for sure. If you don't backfill, the team is pretty much doomed to lose, if you do fill, the new player has an uphill battle.

I did like how Paladins did it where a player that left any match could not rejoin a new one until the original match completes.

The only real solution for this is to play ranked. Most people don't leave there but it can still happen. You at least know that you will only be joining fresh games.

[JG2thend]

Yeah but it feels good when you turn it round.

[leepeyton]

The uphill challenge can be fun early in the map. I usually land in the last 60 or less seconds of the game. So not only do I get to lose but toddlers that were not paying attention really only think I got two elims the whole match and grief me.

[GamesAnimeNMusic]

Originally posted by MistressMoth:

Is anyone else really fed up with consistently being added to a team in the last minute or less of a game onto a losing team? I feel like there needs to be stronger disciplinary action for people who abandon games instead of punishing the people who want to get into a new match, no? Making for an unpleasant experience, otherwise love this game. :(

I hear that. I don't so much mind it being a team that is losing so much as a team that has lost. I have been added to matches into the defeated screen like what the $%^&? They should fill the spots with bots. I have been $^%:>" over and people will leave immediately at character match up and the team not get filled. We went 3 vs 6. Since there isn't the surrender option in every game mode then all we could do was leave and get penalized or wait for them to win.

[Mushroom INfected]

nah i'ts a matchmaking problem

[JG2thend]

I join many nearly finished and get them a win never get an upvote though

[Ðëprávèd•Mïšçréånt]

I got added to a game, as O loaded I heard the loss, then it counted as a loss. Bit of a sour experience

[JG2thend]

Originally posted by Ðëprávèd•Mïšçréånt:

I got added to a game, as O loaded I heard the loss, then it counted as a loss. Bit of a sour experience

I've had that happen once and my game hung on the loading screen for that extra good times cherry on the cake.

[Objection! 2007]

I agree that there should be stricter punishment for people who abandon games but that punishment should come AFTER they fix the optimization. Plenty of games where I'm frozen, get killed, freeze on the transition to the killcam, then kicked for idling. Based on what I'm hearing from everyone I know I'm not the only one experiencing this.

Makes sense that a majority of quickplay sub-ins are on losing teams. If your teammate can't even play, your team is probably going to start losing. Then that teammate gets kicked and you come in their place. Take into account the ragequitters and it's going to be a common occurance.

[EarthyTea]

Multiple occasions ive been put into a match on the loss screen

[Izuzul]

I don't mind filling, but when there is like 30sec left in the match whats the point?

[Meismenotyou]

And then your next match is a bot match. This will probably make me uninstall the game at some point.

Leavers need harsher penalties.

[Kitt 🌟 Stargazer]

It's dumb because your being penalized because of the loser who caused the problem in the first place, the person who quit the match. People like to keep telling me that Quickplay is suppose to be the "Casual" game mode and that it doesn't matter. Then it shouldn't matter either that the game sticks to being 5 vs 6 right? It is Casual after all, not like those wins or loses matter.

Hell, just make it that each team can only have the same number of heroes out at the same time, the team with more's last player sits in spawn and waits till another team mate dies then he spawns in and the one that died waits in his place. The team with more players can have leave freely to make the game 5 vs 5 if they want as well.

or have a bot replace the missing player, since again casual isn't serious and it shouldn't matter. This way they get their sixth player and no one gets forced to play a match that isn't fresh and new.

There's several solutions to the problem that fix it and they pick the worst one of all. Most people want to play fresh and new matches, not ones that have already started. At least add in an option to "opt out" so you never get picked, maybe reward those who do with more crono currency for compensation or something.

[=][=Alduran=][=]

I will not stick around in a game where everyone runs off in another direction and after a gazillion times calling to group up, nobody listening, and everyone getting picked off one by one, I just leave.
Sorry.

[Kitt 🌟 Stargazer]

Originally posted by ==Alduran==:

I will not stick around in a game where everyone runs off in another direction and after a gazillion times calling to group up, nobody listening, and everyone getting picked off one by one, I just leave.
Sorry.

As long as you're ok with being penalized for leaving matches early. Quickplay isn't too bad, it's short... Ranked though on the other hand is a different story.

Also, you technically picked for this to happen too. If you're not picking your own teammates amongst new friends you made to play with, then you're telling the game that it's OK for the matchmaker to pick my teammates for me. Thinking the matchmaker is going to be able to just give you the most ideal teammates every match is not realistic. So, we should consider this a consequence for your own actions of choosing yourself to solo queue in the first place.