Why do you play with WIFI???
And how do they tell if you dcd or just left?
My roommate told me that he was having trouble with disconnects all weekend but he kept saying he didn’t care. I played a match with him while out of town and we both disconnected at the same time. It was definitely a game issue and not internet because we both used two different ISPs both with decent speed and hard wired. So I just didn’t play after that, but he continued.
I’m not mad that I lost 50SR. I knew their was a possibility the server was unstable and I chose to play anyway.
If you play this game enough you’ll learn to deal with the random disconnects, even if it’s not your fault. It’s just part of the game.
Why is everyone arguing that this is ok? You act like this is inevitable or else you’re gaurenteed leavers. ITS NOT!
Here’s an easy fix based on what DotA does. Give the team with the person who disconnect some what to pause (maybe they need to all be in spawn and then they can choose to pause for up to 5 min total each match until the leaver reconnects). Then if the leaver does reconnect, and they win, DONT MAKE THEM STILL LOSE SR!
Right now all the system does is encourage everyone who has the smallest internet/ power blip or simple computer crash (that they simply need to turn the computer on again after) to not return to the match and completely screw over their team. Keep the same punishments as current if they don’t return in time.
But it’s dumb for me to lose 50 Sr because overwatch crashed and I was gone for 30sec before easily winning.
Don’t game on wifi, problem solved, thought every gamer knew that wifi is not stable enough fro gaming.
You left, you lose SR, simple math. Why does this confuse people ? “overwatch crashed” I’m sure the 5 people you made play shorthanded would disagree.
I didn’t leave. The game itself crashed, I didn’t hurt the match at all, came back immidiatly, was way better than my opponents AND STILL LOSE SR.
There is no reason for this at all. Just add the pause function and only punish people if they don’t come back quickly. This is why leavers isn’t a big deal at all in DotA despite it happening all the time. People simply pause till they come back and it never causes any issues.
Yes I currently lose for disconnecting for any reason ever. But that’s a stupid system which accomplishes nothing and actively hurts a decent size of the community. Let’s fix it.
Ive dc’d 3 times in total since S3 rejoined the first 2 times a got nothing but abuse from the team and still recieced minus sr even though we won. Last time i thought why rejoin ill lose SR anyway and prob get salt so whats the incentive to rejoin?
Sry, my mistake. I was using ethernet, not wifi. I used to use wifi all the time until I built a pc, still forgetting to say ethernet. But still, it goes out at the worst times.