Title says it all. I would love to see us have more control over what kind of matches we join, including disabling/enabling an option to backfill into matches which have already started.
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I have many more ideas similar to this one which will give us more control over how we play the game. For instance:
Summary
-Choose Attack or Defense team prior to queueing
-Checkbox on maps we want to play on, allowing us to check multiple or minimum of 1
-Disable/Enable joining other players who are in a group
Iâm fine with that as long as they have much much harsher leaver penalties. Because most people dont like backfill and would turn it off, so games with leavers would essentially be ruined.
Jeff Kaplan has recently stated that they have no intention to give an option to backfilling. However this is why you are given a priority requeue to find a new match if you are backfilled.
Basically, if you backfill and you help that team finish the match, then your next game you should find a match faster (and it will be a full match, no backfill).
ah. i remember when they introduced priority requeue, however my experience with it to date hasnât been very pleasant given that it almost always puts me into a match on a team or map i donât want to play, which almost entirely defeats the purpose of the priority requeue because then i donât have it when i go to re-queue again.
then again i am rather picky, i only play QPC on attack teams. it has been a strugglesome effort trying to sift through all the matches i donât want to be part of, sadly.
Nobody likes backfilling into losing matches that have 20 seconds to make a difference or less.
The alternative is games being given up as âlostâ by the entire team at 30 seconds and people just leaving games.
People need to backfill to keep it even-ish. Not many want to. Most people would opt out Iâd wager⌠therefore we cannot have âvoluntaryâ backfill.
Another issue with backfilling today is that Quick Play no longer cycles through to the next match right away (due to role queue). Before role queue, a match often just starts with the same players on the next map (unless too many players decided to leave after the last game), so the flow of keep playing has been cut quite a bit. That however is something not likely to be resolved anytime soon.
As do many others. However I re-assert that allowing opting out would mean next to nobody would backfill and matches would be lost as soon as someone left.
i already manually âopt outâ of every backfill match i am thrown into these days.
i used to play the backfills but i have come to realize they are useless and serve as nothing more than a short target practice. which is why i just leave the matches myself. but this opens an entire can of worms which you might not be aware of given that you necessitate mandatory backfilling. iâm talking about issues like toxicity coming from players directed toward âleaversâ who donât want to be part of backfill matches. furthermore there is the issue of continuous backfilling into the same exact match over and over and over and over. i have backfilled into the single same match EIGHT times before. this was about 3 days ago. i got flamed by the team it placed me on, because i couldnât just âstay in the matchâ so they blamed me for their loss when i didnât even want to be part of the match in any way shape or form. and yes, i did wait between requeuing. it kept throwing me back in.
obviously there would be issues in need of correction if they enabled voluntary backfilling, but the way it is right now there are a gaggle of issues which arenât being addressed or mentioned or fixed.
Iâve seen a few - the argument is usually that they like the backfill XP and/or like trying to turn around the match. Granted, I think these people are very very rare exceptions.
As far as bots go: Perhaps at lower ranks theyâd be reasonable replacements, but I feel like anything plat and above the bots are basically just going to be garbage. I would rather have a 5v6 than play with a bot, since theyâll likely just feed ult charge.
i donât either, the only time i âleaveâ is when i join into a backfill match thatâs already begun because i find it unfair to myself whether i win or lose it will always feel empty to me
As I said⌠people will opt out if they can except instead of people getting pop-ins, theyâll just get nobody.
This has not been my experience in every case. Yeah I pop into 3 or 4 matches where i load in and âDEFEAT!â a week, but Iâve also turned around my fair share of matches with little to no time on the clock. Itâs not entirely useless.
This, to me, sounds like your problem. The fact that you were requeueing and the game was long enough to keep popping into their game AND the game kept lasting while you did it means you ditched on a lasting winnable game. A difference could have been made and they were somewhat justified in blaming you for constantly popping into that spot and leaving instead of walking away from the game for a bit to prevent it. The system should not reward people who backfill and ditch or people would do it more often.
You are a leaver if you leave a backfill match. Thatâs what it means. YOu joined and pre-emptively gave up. You didnât play the game.