Had a teammate go AFK for several minutes and took them forever to get kicked. Meanwhile i queue up as DPS, go pee, grab a drink, and im kicked right as i sat down I even picked character and started moving but i “needed to engage in combat outside of spawn”. Gone well under 2 minutes.
I got the inactive message after entering as backfill, as soon as I chose my hero…so it’s a bit inconsistent in that aspect.
Though, I haven’t had many afk people I noticed in my games yet.
I think it activates faster in spawn.
This is a hard one to test. I had a game in OW1 where I was shielding as Rein doing my job, but got kicked because I had not taken or dealt damage. Hard to do dmg on anubis 1st point defense when the enemy team just dies pushign choke.
I have seen peopel get the inactivity warning for not moving, then as soon as they move it doesn’t kick them. In the past, you used to be able to say what your ult charge% was and it counted as activity.
I’m not sure if that still works or not.
Outside of spawn you need to do (or take) damage within about 90-120 seconds I believe, even of it’s on/from a shield/turret.