Timeline for In a competitive match, when a player quits, does the game look for a replacement?
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| Jan 20, 2017 at 12:26 | comment | added | Cruncher | @Powerlord "If the situation is hopeless, we don't want to force players to stick around while the other team finishes the match. So we allow the rest of the team to quit the match without a leave penalty, but they still do receive a loss." Since you like quotes | |
| Jan 20, 2017 at 12:23 | comment | added | Cruncher | @Powerlord Lol, that's only if they leave in the first 30 seconds of a match, which is clearly not what this discussion is about. You should really read your sources. | |
| Jan 20, 2017 at 5:01 | comment | added | Powerlord | @Cruncher "The person who left receives BOTH a loss and a leave, while everyone else can then leave without penalty or loss." -- Blizzard's Scott Mercer. I already linked the source for this quote earlier. | |
| Jan 19, 2017 at 21:54 | comment | added | Cruncher | @Powerlord You misunderstand. A minute after somebody leaves, you can leave without a LEAVE penalty. You will however, unavoidably incur the LOSS penalty. The purpose of this system is they don't want to lock you into a game that's obviously lost because you're a man down. | |
| Jan 19, 2017 at 19:30 | comment | added | Powerlord | us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20745575028#post-3 is comments from the Overwatch staff about this. | |
| Jan 19, 2017 at 19:28 | comment | added | Powerlord | "During an Overwatch competitive season match, if a player quits mid-match, my team will have to finish the match with one less player, which generally leads to a defeat." Is this a change in season 3? Usually after a player is gone for a minute, the game will bring up the red box saying that no points/rank adjustments will be awarded for the match. | |
| Jan 19, 2017 at 18:37 | comment | added | Cruncher | @MonkeyZeus A question about all competitive games would be impossible to answer. Has anyone on this website played all (competitive) games? At least this question is very easy to answer, and serves as an answer for competitive games in general anyway | |
| Jan 19, 2017 at 18:36 | comment | added | Daft | @MonkeyZeus I've only ever seen it in Overwatch but then I don't play many other team based competitive games. | |
| Jan 19, 2017 at 18:31 | comment | added | MonkeyZeus | @Cruncher Yes, that is what my question brings to light. I am still trying to figure out why this question is specific to Overwatch and/or Blizzard. | |
| Jan 19, 2017 at 18:25 | comment | added | Cruncher | @MonkeyZeus if any game does this in a competitive setting, it's a broken system. Competitive is supposed to be like tournament play with a randomly found group. | |
| Jan 19, 2017 at 18:24 | comment | added | MonkeyZeus | Is this specific to Overwatch? I am very intrigued to hear which games allow a replacement player; presuming there's no predetermined benchwarmers. | |
| Jan 19, 2017 at 18:20 | history | edited | Wrigglenite | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 19, 2017 at 18:05 | answer | added | Cruncher | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 19, 2017 at 16:35 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/TheArqade/status/822120205207932928 | ||
| Jan 19, 2017 at 15:33 | vote | accept | Daft | ||
| Jan 19, 2017 at 15:14 | answer | added | MatthewRock | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 19, 2017 at 14:54 | history | edited | Daft | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 19, 2017 at 12:53 | answer | added | XenSide | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 19, 2017 at 11:36 | answer | added | Toomai | timeline score: 42 | |
| Jan 19, 2017 at 11:09 | history | asked | Daft | CC BY-SA 3.0 |