Being held hostage in Junkenstein's Lab

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I’ve been repeatedly held hostage in the Junkenstein’s Lab mode, especially as the event has worn on. Enemies teams will play MUCH better than the time I am on, and will refuse to cap point while spawn camping. This is happening an increasingly large amount, and thanks to the leaver penalties, it’s difficult to simply make the decision to leave the game.

The most recent occurrence happened by my backfilling into said match. I don’t know how long it had been going at that point, but the enemy team was simply spawn camping the whole time with point wide open. After five minutes of being stuck there with no progress being made, I made the choice to leave.

I’m not against the leaver penalties, but if it’s possible to hold players hostage in this way, forcing them to leave only to have the backfill suffer the same fate, then there needs to be something in place to either end the match automatically or force a cap somehow.

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…wait until you hear about what players can do in 4v4.

If there’s a map with a definitive ledge like Paris, petra, black forest, etc a coordinated team can continuously suicide by jumping off the ledge with heroes with immortality effects to make it impossible to score points (via boops, etc)
If you don’t engage them quick enough…you’ll be afk kicked and penalized for leaving.

This can be done with bots and was a problem in ow1 that has yet to be fixed in OW2. Luckily the mode is less popular and only comes around once in a while.

However the exploitation of games has had no response from blizzard in the entirety of overwatch.
The only solution is to buy more blizz coins.