Leavers penalty after leaving too many bot matches

[Goog]

As the title says I've lost a couple games and now I'm very obviously playing with bots, their pathfinding is all the same and the other team seems to just shoot over my shoulder rather than actually trying to hurt me. I've stood completely still for an entire minute, on all three of these matches to *really* see if they were bots, in which they jumped around me and missed every shot, only to finally make contact after I actively moved into their projectiles lol.

Anyways I took got a leavers penalty after leaving too many of these matches because I found them boring, but I've tried two more games now and left them both because they were *still* bot games.

I guess I'm supposed to slog through and get the easy win to keep my win/loss 50/50?

Dunno, just thought I'd post this and see if anyone else has had the same experience oki bye:3

[Goog]

To add I'm also aware that taking the leavers penalty is entirely my fault, but I also reaally didn't want to trudge through the braindead games lol.

I'm just a bit upset that there are bots in quickplay to begin with, just kinda feels like a mercy win after getting rolled a couple times, the wins don't feel earned :P

[Echorion]

It shouldn't be a thing in the first place for people to even have to worry about leaving.

Tbh we need to be more vocal against this on social media; I already submitted a detailed ticket and like half our discord is going to do the same. Might not amount to much, but every bit helps.

[Echorion]

I'm with you. It's disrespectful of players times.
They queue for as versus match and get told no, they have to play against bots, but not only that they HAVE to and are not allowed to do anything else now or face punishment.

It's wild, if they did this in with most other games they would have been slammed for it. Tbh I think Rivals only gets away with it because in pretty much every other aspect- the game is so good.

[Kitt 🌟 Stargazer]

I’ve been told you can’t get leaver penalties for leaving vs ai matches. But quickplay is quickplay, or maybe they weren’t all bot matches?

[Loken]

Its quick match, its kind of a practice game. if you get bots often then improve in it. If you dont want bots play ranked.