How many seconds for game to cancel because leaver?

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I was under the impression that if a player left the game, or didn’t log in the game, during the first 30 sec, the game will be cancelled.
However I was in a game today in which our DVA logged out in the first 20 sec, but the game did not cancelled, forcing us to play a full game 5v6.
I double checked the time in replay, just to be sure… it was 22 sec from beginning

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1 minute is the cut off time. If the game didn’t cancel in 20 seconds, it was likely a bug. I’ve had the same happen to me a few times.

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Thanks, I had the feeling it was a technical thing…

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Should cancel as long as its within 45 seconds of spawn doors opening. Thats when the afk timer boots you

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When everyone leaves spawn i think the game wont cancel.

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Incorrect. The game is supposed to cancel if someone leaves within the first 60 seconds of play.

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but someone left after 40 seconds and my game continued

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There are bugs with the system as well as it being unclear when the timer actually starts.

After 60 seconds the game continues when there is a leaver.

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Are we surprised there is a bug ? The Sr bug after you leave a game early when your team already has a leaver. Existed since competitive began.

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This is getting ridiculous. Leaver on my team after 37 seconds, game continues. Loss I leave after 2 minutes. Next game leaver on enemy team after 1min, match is cancelled. Draw. SR bug from previous game so I lose another 25.

50sr down and haven’t even been able to play more than 3 minutes. Great job Blizz.

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I could be wrong on this, but Blizzard has changed the rules. If all players leave the spawn area, then there’s a relatively large window of time where the match will still continue even if a player leaves; whereas if one player sits in spawn, and the match begins, then the match will end fairly quickly after the match starts.

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They changed it so if they participate in the match at all then the game continues.

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What moronic game designer thought that 37 seconds participation from one player makes so much of a difference that the match should continue 5v6 to a certain loss and then punish the players forced to play a totally unfair match by reducing their personal “skill” rating.

Utterly braindead game design. It doesn’t look like anything will be done in OW2 to counter the leaver problem either. 4v5 is going to even more of a certain loss than 5v6 is.

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I had games where we already lost first point by the time one of my teammates decides to join the game, but for some reason it’s not canceled. Then everyone is pissed at that guy and nobody wants to help him win anymore, plus they have a huge ult advantage so we get rolled the rest of the game too. But whenever it happens to the enemy team that game gets canceled faster than a racist tweet.