Typically I queue up for quickplay, alt tab and do other things. When the queue pops the taskbar button blinks, I alt tab back in, play.
However when it backfills me into a match the taskbar button does not blink. Unless I frequently check back in I end up completely missing that it’s put me in as backfill in a game.
Or often times it’ll put me in as backfill and the taskbar button will blink, but ONLY when I’ve got like 4 seconds to get out of the spawn room or be removed for afk-ing.
Prior to this patch it wasn’t too much of an issue, but now with the suspended penalty I’m getting suspended because the taskbar button just…doesn’t blink when I get put in as backfill.
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If I’m not mistaken it’s always been missing the blink for backfilling in OW2. It’s annoying as heck!
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I think so too, I just got suspended again because it backfilled me again and I had 2 seconds to leave the spawn room.
As a workaround, you can always enable game sounds in background (under game settings). That will allow you to hear when the queue has popped.
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This is still broken and never shows up in known issues. Bump so someone at Blizz hopefully sees this.
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Bumping my own thread. This is the 3rd time since the new penalty system that I’ve been suspended due to “leaving matches”.
When the game backfills me, the taskbar does NOT blink to notify me I’ve gotten into a game and then boots me for being afk. The game has NO problem blinking the taskbar to indicate to me that I’ve been kicked for being afk however.
The taskbar blinks every time I get into a game that’s just started and not backfilled.
I’ve tried different taskbar settings. I’ve tried repairing Overwatch. I’m still on Windows 10 if that makes a difference.
I’ve only one monitor so I alt tab whenever I queue up because I’ve got other things I wanna do. I suppose now I’ll finally enable background sound for the game but that shouldn’t be the solution, I don’t really want to hear the Title Screen Sounds looping while I watch cat videos on youtube.
Also I get backfilled ALOT despite them trying to implement strategies to stop people leaving…
Also I tend to see that when someone backfills into a match I’m in they often time out without even picking a hero, I figure the same thing must be happening to them, which…is quite often.
I’m just a casual quickplay player, I don’t even bother to leave a game normally if it’s going badly.
PS. Also why does the unskippable progression screen at the end of a game interrupt me trying to change my options.
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Bump, still broken. And it does flash when the inactive warning comes up, but even if i select a hero and run to the spawn door I’m not fast enough to make it and get kicked.
Changing it to blink on back fill would be really helpful.
Open the hero gallery when queueing with the sound on.
It doesn’t have any (or very quiet) background sounds.