Game and its ranking system is currently broken.
Uneven matches from start (3 vs 4, 2 vs 4 and 1 vs 4) occurs frequently and results in penalties for the losing team although consisting of fewer team members.
Uneven matches should either be canceled or not result in penalties.
It’s bewildering that a match would even start at 3v4.
Ranked needs a re-join option. And the game should try to even itself out in the mean time. You could either make it 3v3 (rotate the extra player off the bench with each death) and/or remove equipment and power weapons while there is uneven numbers.
And the other benefit of a re-join option is that you can go harder on the penalties for those those that don’t come back. You know that they are genuine quitters.
I wonder if it would be a bad idea to move 1 player into observer mode if its like 3v4, or more if it’s necessary. A rejoin would be great too, but this could be another spin on it. If it somehow starts a ridiculous 1v4 ,imagine it gets the player selected as most fair to be the player who 1v1s while the buddies left are in observer mode.
You remember h5 when it would sometimes go into a black screen and it would drop a player? Like imagine it went to a black screen for a few seconds, recalibrates the match and sudden the 1v4 turns into a 1v1 with like a 15 kill limit, or if it was a 2v4 it goes into a 2v2 with a 25 kill limit etc.
Probably would be hard to execute it all, but it would be pretty cool. Like i wouldnt mind going into observer and watching a friend or team mate suddenly go into a sweaty 1v1 or if i myself became the player in the 1v1. Like the heats on broooo! Haha.
But yea…rejoin would be nice.
I think it would work great.
Put the extra player on the bench and then swap them back in on the next death.
I’m actually hoping we can script something similar. Our custom matches often end up with an uneven number of players. Bots help a bit… but keeping an even number of players on the field would work well.
In most games a player would die every 20 seconds or so… so you wouldn’t be on the bench for long.
The team with the 4 players would still have a big advantage. They have an extra player in observer mode… and their weakest link is likely to spend the most time on the bench. But it’s not as big as being 4v3 - and it makes re-join a more viable option.
I think it would be great if a quit affected match was restarted with the new scores and time limit. Give the team with the lower player count a head start. It could even be recalibrated to the ranks of the players left.
The game is already a dead rubber in terms of ranking - so at least make it interesting for those who are left.
Gameplay is stellar but uneven teams happens way to frequently, 3 out of 10 matches start with uneven numbers (3 vs 4 or worse) and I see no reason 343 would not be able to fix this if they want to because it is just a waste of time completing a 3 vs 4 or 2 vs 4. 9 out of 10 times you lose regardless of effort.