During my placements, I crashed 2/10 of the games during match startup.
I restart the game and am booted back up literally within 10 seconds and yet I am instantly given an abandon. Who made the genuis decision to not allow us a grace period to reconnect as is standard on pretty much EVERY competitive game.
As a player since launch, I have played quite a lot and really enjoyed it but it is honestly ridiculous how this can be the decided sensible implementation to stop griefers when it affects all of the innocent people in the ruthless approach; it really puts a dampener on playing more matches.
Edit 09/07/2019 - Yet another crash for this issue. Another 50 SR lost and another 30 minute ban.
How do you âwork on your crashesâ?? Itâs not like we go out of our way to crash the game. Itâs the developers job to prevent crashes, not the end user lmao.
Itâs actually both. Itâs the devs job to make the game as stable as possible, and the users job to ensure their system is stable and compatible with the game.
make sure everything is operating at a safe temperature
make sure all the fans are clean and operating correctly
Apply operating system patches
make sure you donât have malware or viruses
research whether other people with your hardware are having the same problems as you and whether theyâve found a fix.
Adjust settings, such as whether the game is full screen, native resolution for your monitor, etc.
And if your game is still crashing, you avoid Competitive until you can stabilize things.
Iâm sorry that the OPâs system is having stability problems with Overwatch. There are things that should be done, and the tech support forum has a bunch of information available.
I appreciate that there are things that the user CAN do to help but if the issue only occurs with Overwatch then it is an Overwatch issue and not the PC. For what itâs worth, itâs a fairly newly built PC and everything has been installed/updated.
Regardless of my issues with crashing, do you not think itâs ridiculous for the game to instantly penalise a player for disconnecting?
The game is incredibly complex, and could have any number of technical issues; itâs not like Iâm the only user that will have computer, network, or whatever other kind of problems that can occur. To instantly penalise someone for issues beyond their control is, to me, insane.
The reaction to disconnects and crashes is different depending on how far into the game it is. Before a certain point, the whole game just gets cancelled, and everyone kicked out. That sounds like what portion of the game you were in. I havenât ever seen someone able to rejoin during an early game DC. Iâm not sure you can even rejoin.
If youâre convinced thereâs nothing wrong with your computer, then youâll want to go to the Tech Support forums and follow their instructions for how to post a crash problem and get assistance.
Iâm not blaming you, or even your computer. I just gave advice on what the basic things to check would be. The tech support forums have more thorough steps that you should go through.
Most people do not have crashing problems.
The penalties are to discourage intentional leaving. Itâs nearly impossible for the system to differentiate between an innocent crash or disconnect and an intentional one to leave a game. Thatâs why the penalties exist.
Also, the SR loss is temporary. Youâll gain more SR on your next several wins to catch you back up to where you were.
Recovery from disconnecting is identical to recovery from decay. That is, after a single disconnect a player will have an SR buff for about 12 games until his SR has caught back up to what it would have been if heâd never disconnected. Because leaver recovery is identical to decay recovery, it is likely that MMR is unaffected by leaving, just as it is unaffected by decay.
The info about decay makes the situation better; I was unaware of you getting a âMMR boostâ which does alleviate the guaranteed loss of MMR when you crash at the start of a game.
Now I need to find a way to solve the temporary bans thoughâŚ
Iâll go give the tech support section a browse and see if anything helps. Thanks for your info anyway!
not to mention that if you can resolve whateverâs causing the crashing, and if you never quit games yourself, in the long run youâll more than make up the lost SR by encountering enemy teams where someone dcs/quits.
Apex crashes all the time for tons of users. Like the majority because itâs buggy and poorly coded. Itâs definitely on the developers if it crashes a majority of the time.
Think back a year or maybe two ago in overwatch. Every update comp was literally destroyed and thousands of people were being kicked from games or the game crashes or put on the enemy team to replace other players who moved to their own team.
Yep, not saying its only the users fault at all. But if the game crashes only for a specific few people, then most likely it has something to do with their hardware, OS, drivers, or general setup as well as the game itself.
If someone crashes once, and then immediately tries to play again without any troubleshooting, it is partially their fault if they end up being punished for crashing again. The problem originates from the game of course, but the user does hold some of the blame if they queue again knowing full well that they didnât attempt to fix the issue on their end.
That is of course, specifically regarding crashes that only happen on certain systems, not widespread common crashing. But since OP has stated that the issue is caused in part by RTX video cards, I donât think this problem falls under the âcommonâ category.
I mean, correct me if Iâm wrong, but every time I have disconnected, I always sought to immediately reconnect (if my internet was not cutting it, I would even turn to my mobile hotspot for ps4; basically Iâd do everything I could to reconnect), and it always had the option to rejoin the game.
Granted, I made the decision to go for a wired connection months ago, and havenât disconnected since.
Yes, this is why I made this thread. I would crash and be back onto the game and wanting to reconnect within maximum 15 seconds but by that time the game has been disbanded and I was penalised with a 30 minute ban (after having already received a 10 minute ban for a prior crash).