Battlegrounds are broken again

iCaliban

If a game starts with less than full teams, new players never fill the empty spots, ditto if a player quits. Not anecdotal, dozens of players reporting the same issue.

ChunkyCat

I concur with this assessment.

L_Nici

At least it starts, better than being stuck in "Waiting for Players" and then get punished for leaving.

Iskiab

Yup, something broke.

As an aside, I never noticed how common it is for people to drop BGs. It’s bewildering.

iCaliban

L_Nici wrote: »

At least it starts, better than being stuck in "Waiting for Players" and then get punished for leaving.

No, no more of this half measure "oh it could be worse" crap. Games literally arent filling up. If you start 3 on 4, you are screwed if you are playing at a high mmr. On top of this, the queues are back up to 15 minutes or longer for solo players, which is ridiculous.

Iskiab wrote: »

Yup, something broke.

As an aside, I never noticed how common it is for people to drop BGs. It’s bewildering.

Zos lowered the penalty for quitting to 5 minutes. More incentive to quit a poor match such as a 3 on 4 against a team with healing, and just queue again.

mandricus

I was able to isolate some of the issues that have been occurring

Queue as group (3 or 4 people it doesn't matter). When you get the ready check, if all people of the group accept and one decline or does not accept the readycheck, the other people are ported into BG while one that did not accept remains out of the instance. This lead every time to a team of 3 people, and the missing one is never going to be replaced by the finder

You can try it yourself, this happens 100% of the times. Looks like if someone does not accept the ready check for whatever reason, his spot is still taken into account in the instance, and he is never going to be replaced during the match.

Iskiab

iCaliban wrote: »

L_Nici wrote: »

At least it starts, better than being stuck in "Waiting for Players" and then get punished for leaving.

No, no more of this half measure "oh it could be worse" crap. Games literally arent filling up. If you start 3 on 4, you are screwed if you are playing at a high mmr. On top of this, the queues are back up to 15 minutes or longer for solo players, which is ridiculous.

Iskiab wrote: »

Yup, something broke.

As an aside, I never noticed how common it is for people to drop BGs. It’s bewildering.

Zos lowered the penalty for quitting to 5 minutes. More incentive to quit a poor match such as a 3 on 4 against a team with healing, and just queue again.

Terrible. So people just requeue until they get a carry? They should increase it to half an hour.

iCaliban

mandricus wrote: »

I was able to isolate some of the issues that have been occurring

Queue as group (3 or 4 people it doesn't matter). When you get the ready check, if all people of the group accept and one decline or does not accept the readycheck, the other people are ported into BG while one that did not accept remains out of the instance. This lead every time to a team of 3 people, and the missing one is never going to be replaced by the finder

You can try it yourself, this happens 100% of the times. Looks like if someone does not accept the ready check for whatever reason, his spot is still taken into account in the instance, and he is never going to be replaced during the match.

This might explain why games are starting with only 2 players on one team, which is explicitly stated by zos to not be intended.

ChunkyCat

I’ve quit so many games!! LaLs

Two other groups have dedicated healing with combined heals approaching 1mil while our group has a MagDk dying whenever he enters melee range away and a Sorc streaking away??? Yup. /quit

Two other groups have combined DPS approaching 1mil while our group is struggling to reach combined dps of 500k damage??? Yup. /quit

One group started with 2 players, one of whom /quit, and the second group has a dedicated healer, while my two stamblade team mates are just cloaking away??? Yup. /quit

The LaLs are EndLess.

So a thank you to ZoS, for realizing that they can’t fix their *** MatchMaking System and instead opted to reduce the penalty for leaving a *** MatchMaking game.

You’re the real heroes, ZoS.

iCaliban

This bug is currently having a toxic effect on the BG community. Games not filling, and permanently being down 1 or even 2 players is not acceptable.