5 VS 4 for the entire game

[FRIEND-21266]

It’s the third time in 2 days that I play against 4 players for a whole match.
It seems to be a bug.

UPDATE: This happens all the time to a lot of players.
Is this the new standard, to release updates with game-breaking bugs every month?

[BroidiTR1-2139]

We’re not the only ones this happens to:

Just played literally an entire QP game without a tank

I don’t know what they’re doing to the matchmaker, but it’s not good. Player dropped right at the start - never spawned in, and nobody backfilled. For the entire game. Obviously we never took the first point on Blizzardworld 5v4 without a tank. I’m bronze-tier trash. I refuse to believe there was nobody in queue who they could’ve filled in for the tank. I would’ve played tank myself if it would let me.

[Pessi-21909]

Which server are you connected to?

[FRIEND-21266]

european servers.
AMS1 and CDG1

[BroidiTR1-2139]

It’s obvious that this is a SEASON 8 PROBLEM right now. So, in the future, please COMMENT on discussions that have ALREADY STARTED on the same topic. Then this issue will get more attention AND MIGHT potentially speed up the FIX.

Backfill not working any more

Had a few games now where someone leaves and there is no backfill for the rest of the game. Even when someone leaves near the start. Been going on for a few days now. This game GNV9ZN had 2 leavers, 1 near the start, and neither got backfilled for the entire game. I notice there are also many more times when waiting for a game that it says joining game at the top and then never joins but after a while it goes back to searching. I suspect this may relate to it finding a game to backfill and then…

Backfill in QP broke

Had 2 games out of about 5 where one of the teams had a tank leaver. And 5-10 minutes later never got a backfill for the tank. So either nobody is playing tank these days or there is a bug in backfilling.

[FRIEND-21266]

The tank left after the first minute.
As time went on, more and more players from my team left the game.

1 minute before the end we are playing 2vs5.
In the final 20 seconds of the game, I’m all alone on my team.
3 seconds before end, the match is aborted and nobody receives XP.

Perfect game.

https://imgur.com/a/W6XBKPs

[pressedbunny-2312]

As I’ve added to one of the other threads, I just had someone leave during the hero select screen phase, and still never got a backfill. Just a handicap match. This is now the third or fourth time I’ve had no backfill before the match even started, and I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen no backfill after matches have started.

[pressedbunny-2312]

Once again, bumping all threads because it’s happened twice more this evening since my previous comment. Two leavers, no backfill after approximately 90 seconds in one case and in over 9 minutes in another.

[BroidiTR1-2139]

It’s also good to send a bug report directly through the Blizzard app (Battle.net).