Just had a quickplay game where one of our supports left and one of the enemies DPS left as well.
And for more than two minutes (in the evening on top of that), neither team got a backfill.
After getting destroyed for two minutes, the enemy team started leaving, so the game was canceled.
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They probably changed something behind the scenes regarding backfill now that the outlandish punishment exists.
The game is not in the best state ever, but it is more or less same stuff, different day.
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no the game’s alive, but that doesn’t mean it’s good,
or that it’s doing well, or that players are satisfied with it, or that I’m playing it, or that the balance is good, or content, or matchmaking, or monetization and it’s fairness, and similar…
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No. But it is boring right now.
Mauga really sucking the fun out of every match.
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I feel the same about him…
I’m also clueless on how to Nerf him without nerfing him into oblivion. He’s just badly designed in my opinion
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The game will never dye but its on life support of players who put to much time into it
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Backfill appears to be having problems. Been seeing several complaints about not getting replacement players, but queue times are remaining low.
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no its a bug with backfill, lots of games with leavers will now not auto recieve a backfill player, so its just a 4v5 high quality game.
One of the options you have is to reinvite the player who left to a group and then when theyre in game again remove them. That way the game goes back to 5v5. Otherwise its basically GG 
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For me, I’d just reduce either his armour, or heath regen (or both but by smaller amounts).
But personally… it is the play style that does it for me…
Hide on corner, shoot left gun
they burn, shoot right gun
There is very little skill expression with him. Hes too survivable so you dont need to do anything but stand there
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The only new thing playable that has been added to the game this season is Mauga.
These last two seasons have been the most boring I have experienced in the game. I have never been so bored as now. Overwatch 2 is not dead because it has players, but it is dead playably.
The problem with going “look big change coming, but not for 2 seasons”… the season in between feel flat, points, and empty.
Like back in the day when the season would end, but the new season didn’t start for a couple more days… those days were a complete waste of time.
Been having similar issue. It’s so bad i end up playing comp. Even if they are leavers there i still stay there to complete the challenges. After all it’s pretty challenging to play this torturous game.
Once i finish those challenges which i’m close to doing. I will leave match once the countdown is over. Atleast i won’t be suspended like in QP.
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Im pretty sure that something is broken since last patch with the way backfill works.
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It’s a bug. Many matches aren’t allowing backfill.
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I haven’t played since October and boy oh boy how this game has dipped. I mean, it was already terrible, but since then it’s got even worse. Ana’s managed to weasel her way into the meta again, and tank is still not properly balanced. Backfill is screwed beyond belief and the community just seems to be getting more and more inpatient. I think my time has finally come to quit the game. Only time will tell.
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How do you know how the game is if you haven’t played in months?
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Just had the same thing happen… 4v5 all game so we all just stopped playing, emote partied and let them take it. Then 2 games later it happened again, but the other team was so bad we still steamrolled em.
COOL, MORE BROKEN STUFF
No. It’s getting more and more stale which makes it feel dead, but it’s still pretty active. Dead games don’t have this level of activity.
What you experienced was a bug. Backfilling is bugged sometimes. People will leave and never backfilled.
SOMEHOW though I’m always finding the backfill matches and being backfilled into them 
I think the Gold and lower ranks are doing great… Anything after Diamond is a much smaller community. Most of the higher ranks were streamers that just quit playing for other games.
If you don’t take this game serious I think its fine. Don’t look to play serious competitive because its not nearly or anywhere close to as serious as it was in 2018.
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It’s a bug with backfilling.
For context, the dev has talked about implementing a feature to not backfill in the last portion of the game where it’s impossible for the backfiller to be able to make a difference to the game. For example, last 10s, 0.1m, 1% of the match remaining.
At least that is what I am assuming, but something when wrong during implementation of it.
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