I am DONE with backfill

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I mean, you seem to think that the only way to avoid backfill is to wait the time after the game is over to leave.

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Not at all. It’s not what I said.

I said DO NOT leave. Never. Not even after game is finished. Capito?
Do NOT press the leave button.

In other words, you see the button “LEAVE GAME” at the top right?
NEVER press it.

NEVER means NEVER.
Whether the game is still running or not.

For example. You just backfilled a game and the game finishes as you get in.
What do you do?
NOTHING! You wait!

Understand what I mean now?

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This would ruin a lot more games that are in progress when people do leave them. When everybody has avoid backfill on, less games would get backfill.

Also, even if the game is almost over, there’s a good chance your next game will be full, and you’ll be able to play a full match.

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“Comp is worse for some players. I mean who wants to wait 6 minutes to get a game full of dps mains insta locking,”

Are you talking about QP? Because what you just described happens very rarely in comp (40 hours this season, only happend once or twice), and very often in QP. I played some QP off season…damn it was hell.

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65

I am honestly tired of it too. The amount of times I join a game just to be greeted with the defeat screen is way too often. Give me the option to opt out of it, I don’t want to deal with it. Also, they should consider putting a leaver stat since people leaving games is so common here.

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Backfills on last seconds absolutely ridiculous and should be removed. Backfilled today when team almost lost last point and managed to hold for almost 4 minutes. Won. But this is more exception than usual, so I agreed with TS.

67

Quick Play and Arcade are very casual modes. When you play them, you go try your best and have fun, and if backfill didn’t exist, there is a chance of being locked into spawn not able to do anything. The fast-paced nature of these games (They can only last a dozen minutes or so) require full teams for a balanced experience, and backfilling is necessary for that.

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I don’t agree with this at all. I’ve joined matches with 30 ish seconds left and won. It’s not impossible.

Also you get free XP for backfill. Just remember that.

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Allow us to opt out of backfill, and raise the backfill xp to 500, I’ll be all over it. I don’t mind getting 3000 xp for a defeat screen when I couldn’t even choose a hero. :smiley:

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I’ll take the backfill lol more loot boxes for me

In all seriousness they won’t do it. Because everybody would turn it off. If only a couple backfilled. Every game for them would be a backfill because no one else is.

If no one backfills quickplay becomes unplayable. No one would complete a game because half way through two of your teammates left. And since the game is dead. Everyone else leaves all because there is no one to fill for the people that left. It would completely ruin the game.

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They need a reward for backfilling games. Like lootpoint system where if they backfill games and win, they get x points, and these points can be exchange for neo weapons or something like that.

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+400 xp is perfectly fine imo, maybe 500 wouldn’t hurt, and it really wouldn’t be tragic if there was an option to opt out.

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The problem with backfill ins’t doing it by itself, but the wait in the queue being MUCH longer than the actual game, if I wanted to sit in queue/loadings screens, I would be playing gta online.

Seriously, who like to sit for 2-4 minutes in the queue, just to get half a second match and an instant DEFEAT before you could even chose your hero?

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They backfilled me in Free-For-All, #1 already had 10 kills, wtf im trying to get boxes here

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Just make it so backfill is automatically disabled when the game have 30 sec left or less, it takes a huge toll on players moral when they spawn into a DEFEAT screen. specially when they waited like 5 min in queue for a game or after they’ve already tilted enough from losing a game they shouldn’t have.

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Use LFG and profit…

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(waits for match for 3 minutes)
(finally gets a match)
"-FEAT" as you stare at the black abyss under the level, getting tilted and ruining your mood for the day because of stupid backfill

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I 100% agree. Once I got backfilled into 3 comp games in a row and we lost all of them.

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This topic represents me. :slight_smile:

I’m done with backfill in a way i instant quit when i hear the sounds of a battle going on even before the map loads. Then avoid some random on the team and requeue.

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Backfill is my biggest gripe with Overwatch. Balance changes aside, I’m always shocked by how many times a session I get stuck into a losing game.

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