Reposting it, since it’s another patch and it is still an issue.
Hello,
I was reporting it some time ago, few patches passed and the issue still persists, so I will report it again. (And will continue to do so after every patch).
When alt-tabbed (for example to read news, or watch YT) while searching for the game, the icon on windows start menu starts to blink when a game is found. But it is only true for full games that You join from the start.
When a backfill game is found, the icon stays dormant. It only starts blinking when player is going to be removed for inactivity. From that point I have 10s to switch to OW, choose a hero and move, or I will be kicked.
It is especialy troublesome when queue times are long. Today, while queueing as DPS in QP, the card told me it will be 9minutes. So I alt-tabbed, started browsing through the internet… and suddenly, after merely a minute, or so, I see blinking. I switched to OW again, only to see “You were removed for inactivity”. Well, that sucks, obviously I did not see the icon immediately.
And thats the point - on regular game, when icon starts blinking I have 30s to choose hero, 1 minute to prepare def/attack and only after that inactivity timer kicks in. I can safely miss the icon blinking for even a minute and no harm done.
With backiflls? Nope - impossible. Either I am staring at the icon all the time (which defeats the purpouse of alt-tabbing), or be punished for not wanting to stare at the timer in-game.
Not a good mechanics.
I only assume it’s not working as intended.
Therefore I submit it here as a bug.
When being put into a game alraedy in progress in QP, the icon does not start bliniking.
Please, resolvbe this.
Or add web browser client into teh game, so people will not have to alt-tab.