Would be nice to be able to queue in pending match modes while waiting for a friend to log on, like skirmish or deathmatch (without having to queue for an actual game mode so you don’t get sucked into a match while your friend has to wait for it to finish to avoid a leaver penalty)
Isn’t that just custom game mode?
A game mode where you can play freely without really expecting anything.
That doesn’t have leaver penalty
The problem is that with custom game modes its not as easy to get players to join you. I too would love to just be able to sit in the DM skirmish or team skirmish queue servers without being in an actual matchmaking queue.
One time I had a bug during the Competitive Deathmatch Season a couple of years ago, and I never found a match for four hours (I knew it was bugged because my hero selection screen broke and could not switch heroes so I was stuck on Widowmaker). I ended up getting over 400 kills by the time the server lobby collapsed for being up too long. It really was a fun time.
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i think about this all the time. would be a great addition to the game.
I mean, there are still people playing custom games. Less than other modes probably but enough to fill quite a lot of gamemodes (gun games tend to have 12 people for example).
The main problem with adding this as a game mode is that it would just fill place and be a bit of a duplicate to other modes. It’s an infinite mode and new players who don’t know the game might get stuck in it for no reason.
If you put it in arcade it fills a spot for people who wants wins for loot box.
I think a nice way to solve it is either removing leaver penalty from qp (Players deserve to play what they like if it doesn’t hurt others… All the point of qp is to practice without consequences) or consider adding it to the “training option”. It’s already a pretty empty option (except for training room I don’t think many people play the “tutoria” or vs ai mode too often) and it is kind of training considering you don’t have any pressure or goals. just fight.
Just a bit problematic to implement it outside of it considering only custom games and “training” allow for infinite game modes…
They could place infinite skirmish/dm queue in a “while you wait” tab off to the side of the other panels on the Play menu, so it’s clear that it’s a queue meant for just to give the player to do while they wait for stuff without having to be in queue to enter a match. If a player is queued, they can be redirected to that same menu while possibly having some extra mode options.
It would also be nice to have a “change queue” option in the pause menu so you can queue for another gamemode without having to exit when the match is over. A party tab in the top right hand side of the pause menu would also be nice, so you can add and remove friends from your party mid match if there’s a leaver or invite them to spectate and reintroduce them to the queue in the next match, or change to and from the While You Wait gamemodes. from the outside, role queue can be selected if they accept the invite request while the party is in a queue where that’s required.