Hi.
In the past 48 hours alone, I’ve had five games where someone in QP has left and there was no backfill for the rest of the game. In one of them, a few people left before the game started and it still didn’t backfill, and the game eventually got cancelled after the rest of the team decided playing 5v4 wasn’t fun. The replay code for that is X06JGE.
I just had a game where this exact thing happened, but the rest of my team stayed and let the enemy win. The tank left before the game even started and we didn’t get another tank during the entire five minute game. The replay code for that is 1KY12R.
This only happens sometimes, too. I haven’t caught a pattern on it, but I just know that I’ve had some games where I do get a backfill. Sometimes it takes a minute or so, but they show up eventually.
It seems to be a one-in-ten kinda thing. Common enough for me to start whispering prayers whenever I see someone leaving a match. Lol.
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I’ve been getting this a lot too, had a game go the full length 4v4 even.
So far I’ve experienced this twice in the last 24 hours. Both of mine were tanks, but may just be a coincidence.
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Just wanted to add that I’m still having this issue. It happened to me once last week where a DPS left the game before selecting a hero at the start and was never replaced for the entire QP match (New Junk City). It happened to me again yesterday but the scenario was slightly different. In the second incident, both a support and DPS left at the start of the second round on Nepal (still in spawn room phase) and were never replaced making it a 3v5. After a while of realizing we weren’t gonna get a backfill because of the bug, we ended up just letting them cap and win because there just was no way to come back in that situation. Blizzard, please look into this ASAP if you can. I’ve been playing this game for many, many years and never experienced this. It feels absolutely miserable to have happen to you.
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+1. 4 games this week ruined because of this: no one likes trying to play a 4v5. Strangely, it only ever happens to me: never to the enemy team.
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Over the past 2 weeks i have experienced this at least once a day. Its incredibly frustrating. Normally it has only been when someone leaves, where we don’t get a new player joining. But yesterday i played a match where we only ever had 3 ppl. It started as a 3v5 and ended as a 3v5. Luckily the enemy was nice and won as soon as they could. I would have been itritated if they purposely drew it out knowing we dont stand a chance. It has been incredibly frustrating and i am hoping blizz does something about it. I understand not having someone fill if theres like less than a minute or whatever, but to not have a full team the entire match is insane.
Edit: here is the replay code for the game where we started with only 3 players and no one ever filled in. 7HB9BN
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Just had this same issue happen to me. We were in a game and someone left before the game started (probably because it was flashpoint) and the entire match (6:13) it was a 4v5. Really not fun.
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Just had the exact same situation occur. Both teams were 4v4. Our tank left immediately after loading in. The enemy support left after the enemy tank stopped playing to even things out. Then we just duked it out 4v4.
Ya… plz suggest to the ppl in charge to just fill in with bots… they are more reliable than the noobs blizzard is loaded with.