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Option to vote to surrender in Battlegrounds / Stop backfilling lost matches

NeoniKa
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Most of the time when I queue for a Battleground, I am thrown into a match that is already halfway through, placed on a team that is losing badly—frequently sitting at zero points. What is even the point of backfilling players into a completely unwinnable match? Forcing someone to join a lost game only to wait out an inevitable defeat is a complete waste of time.

Wouldn't it make much more sense for ZOS to implement a team surrender vote option instead of forcing remaining players—and new players filling the slots—to endure a dead match? Or at least stop the queue system from backfilling players into matches where the point gap is already insurmountable?
  • CameraBeardThePirate
    CameraBeardThePirate
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    Backfilling is a good thing. Some teams just need one player to completely flip the match on its head. The amount of times I've seen one player join and make a difference is pretty high, whether I was on the losing team, on the winning team, or even the player myself.

    PvP is a game of math sometimes. A team could be doing everything right, but just lack that little bit of damage to break through a healer. That missing player can absolutely make a difference.

    If games don't backfill you'll just make the problem worse, where one person leaving will simply cause the entire team to leave. It's not healthy.
  • Major_Mangle
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    If vote-concede came with the consequences of not getting any rewards whatsoever then sure. Would be way too abuseable otherwise.
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  • Luneca
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    Before that, I want an option to fire siege.
  • Skraggy
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    Luneca wrote: »
    Before that, I want an option to fire siege.

    Maybe if you start getting camped at spawn, each player gets a cold fire to blast the whole bg with.
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