Hey all, happy 4th/Wednesday.
Some quick thoughts.
Endorsing the enemy team makes no sense. There’s almost 0 contact with the enemy team to warrant “good sportsmanship”. We have no global chat. What would be “bad sportsmanship”? Spamming voice lines? The bar is very low. Please remove it. It’s needlessly inflating endorsement levels.
Still possible to LFG with people on your “Avoid” list.
LFG is kind of buggy. Sometimes after I refresh I can’t select any groups, maybe because I refreshed too fast?
It’s also kind of confusing to search for members again if someone leaves. Maybe add a “refill roles” button.
I didn’t know you could also choose more than 1 role when I join a group. Maybe add something to make it clear. And if they choose more than 1 role, open up the second role if the other player leaves. Example. Adam joins LFG, chooses damage as first choice/tank as second choice. Bob joins and chooses damage, which switches Adam to tank. Bob (damage) disconnects some time during match. Open up Damage roles to Adam, so now Adam can choose tank and damage heroes ingame.
Merging groups is too easy. I hit X by accident on another party and it immediately sends a request to merge. Probably should add a prompt that confirms the choice to merge.
As Jeff mentioned before, the search filters should probably be saved each time you exit a game so you don’t have to reset everything in filters. Or at least add an option to either reset filters or not in options menu.
Search filter option might be bugged. I click “No” voice chat and it still shows groups that look for it. And in groups that have people saying “Yes” voice chat, sometimes players aren’t even in channel. Maybe auto-kick them after 15 seconds or something after they join a party in LFG and before group queues. “You are not in a voice channel and will be removed in X seconds”. Once the party is in a game, then whatever as usual, they can leave channel if they want.
For some reason, I can’t invite people sometimes into the group. Like it gives a message to the person invited. Something like “can’t join party because player is transferring groups”. I don’t know what caused this. I left the group, and then made a new one, and they still can’t join. Both of us had to restart the game.
I think you should open up modes for LFG queue. Sometimes the party wants to switch modes but can’t queue for something new. Like I’m searching for competitive, but then the group decides to do 3v3. Can’t queue unless we regroup, which can cause the earlier problem of “can’t join because transferring.” Add a prompt to players like, “Team is queuing for Whatever, Continue?” then they say “Yes” or whatever and it pops in.
Another weird bug on PS4 (might also be on XB1 and PC). We had a group of 6 from LFG and queued into a skirmish. 1 member in skirmish had to leave and then the group leader left shortly after while or right before the Comp game was found/loading. This caused the group roles to pop up after the map loaded, and I accidentally didn’t choose a role (also another issue, it doesn’t feel intuitive to hit Square to choose a role instead of X). It kicked me out of the group of 4, but still had my role select locked to tanks. You can see it below. I edited out the audio because a teammate was being really loud lol.
Then at the end of the game, we tried to group up together using the “Stay as Group” feature. It popped up as 7/6 lol.
At the end of the match, I was kicked out of the party/game and it said something like, “Can’t join a full group”.
So I’m pretty sure this is a bug that happens in the rare instances that a group leader leaves as competitive match is loading or found. Something like that lol. Hope this helps.
Probably can think of other things later. Thanks for reading!