When theres a leaver, a bot would fill in for them, but since the ai sucks it can be a superbot with superpowers depending on the elo, high elo the bot should be stronger. Either that or make the team with a leaver lose no SR when losing or lesser SR.
Also punish the leaver heavily if people try to abuse it.
It is easy to program to detect like say a group in competitive got different person leaving in every matches, a person that play competitive constantly leaving would get demoted(someone with a bad computer shouldn’t be playing competitive anyways, that’s selfish).
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I don’t think that’s possible in Overwatch. In CS:GO it’s possible because the person who died first can take over the bot. However, In overwatch, that’s nearly impossible, and how would they improve the bot? Especially if the bot is playing any support character?
Also, a leaver is already getting pretty harsh punishment.
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Better than having an empty slot 5 vs 6, Blizzard can’t make a good ai so its better for the bot to have like more health and stuff at higher elo the bot could use higher health and should the leaver come back the leaver would take over the bot.
When someone leave you get an option to forfeit.
If you forfeit due to someone leaving, no SR gets deducted and the other team gets half SR for the win.
If the leaver is in a group, all the group gets the SR penalty for a loss and the leaver gets a bigger penalty and increased temp bans, up to comp ban.
Better system!
How high are you people!?
I don’t do drugs.
I do 20 characters.
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Do… Do you not get the problem with this? The bots just bee-line it to the objective.
They are ult batteries for the enemy,
You would be worse off having a bot with extra HP on your team.
It’ll be WORSE than 5 v 6. It’ll be like 6 v 6 with a giant feeder on your team.
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I’m gonna forget the conversation for a bit and just laugh to myself for now.
Good response xD
I wish they held on to churning out content just for a little while, and focused on fixing competitive. There hasn’t been any feedback on competitive’s existing issues for quite a while now.
Waiting is fine, but waiting without any feedback is stressful.
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Wait a decade then ask again. Maybe by then the game developing industry would have made advancements with A.I. to satisfy this issue.
I feel like the leaver issue is not the biggest problem with competitive. I know it sucks, but in what way could they fix the problem? If you don’t lose any SR when you have a leaver, the system is going to be abused and people will just leave matches so the rest of the team doesn’t lose SR. If they add a bot, people will just complain about the bots.
A person who repeatedly leaves matches already gets punished, they get banned from playing for a certain amount of time, which increases the more often that it happens.
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You know every online game has this issue, right?
It’s a player issue, not a developer issue, lol.
This is the internet…
Do you really think a leaver solo queuing worries about their teammates SR?
For one depressed soul to leave so they save others would take alot of toxicity. That could be a problem, but less so than the current one.
Peer pressure is extremely prominent in this game and I feel like a system where you don’t lose any SR when you have a leaver will be abused. Not entirely by solo queuers, but mostly with people who group together.
Honestly, I played probably 25 games this weekend and had only 1 leaver. It’s not the biggest problem in this game. One tricks, throwers, and smurfs are a bigger problem. I had about 6 games with Hanzo/Widow smurfs this weekend that completely ruined my games, but the root cause for this problem is how easy it is to get secondary accounts. Blizzard makes money on these accounts, so one can only hope that it changes. T.T