I love Infinite, but teammates keep quitting ranked games

[Rips]

So I think I broke a record yesterday. Four games in a row where 1 player would leave the team right at the start of the game. And there wasn’t enough time to see who’s good or not, so it definitely wasn’t a rage quit. I can only assume that they decide to quit right before the game starts which protects them from a temporary ban. We need a solution to this. I was thinking maybe let people join mid-game but protect them from losing xp since they joined a game in-progress.

[ajefferism]

Doesnt help that they are really pushing ranked in the weekly challenges this week. Such a boring mode. Forcing people to play with challenges doesnt make it any better. Forcing myself to try and get 5 wins in ranked for my final weekly challenge. The least fun ive had playing this game so far

[Trand0]

Gonna repost what I posted on another thread.

@Trand0

There are a couple of ways to go about this:

1. Add a rejoin function giving the missing player a chance to redeem themselves and the match just in case it’s not a quit but an issue on their end.
2. Reduce penalties on the affected side. No negated losses, but an alleviation factor of sorts. You won’t get hit with the full amount, but you’ll still get hit.
3. Reward effort better. Stopping the flag carrier, killing the ball carrier, racking up points/medals and making a solid effort on the affected (and losing team) team. All reducing the impact a loss can inflict.
4. Take out Ranked based challenges to keep casual/grindy players from entering into a mode that could potentially impact players who want to take the game more seriously.
5. (This one is a biggie, and can be done to alleviate the issue currently) Stop going into matches blind. Find a group of friends to play with, queue up with them. Relying on completely random strangers you’ll only meet once and trusting they’ll do the right thing is one of the worst ways of playing high stakes matches. Friends and teammates you know personally are easier to communicate and coordinate with anyway, and you tend to understand their hardware in a way that gives you confidence they won’t drop or quit.
6. (This one is wishful thinking, which is why I included it last) Include a match confirmation button as well as a warmup period to ensure all players acknowledge their choice to play Ranked as well give them a chance to connect to the match.

[Rips]

Agreed. Ranked should at least be fixed if they’re going to incorporate it with challenges. Also, I was having a pretty rough time in ranked in terms of overpowered teams and it turns out we can change our ranked queue from “open” to “solo/duo.” The latter is such a crazy difference. Since you’re not forced to against a team of four, it limits the team cap down to two. I highly suggest this to get those challenges out the way. You probably already knew this though, I’m just sharing because I recently discovered this.

[ajefferism]

Didnt know about solo/duo ty!

[A_Blues_fan]

Problem: I had a challenge to win one ranked strongholds game.

Now, I and many others would still play slayer or oddball because it’s the decent thing to do, but there’s a lot of selfish players out there who would just keep quitting until they get strongholds.

The problem is the challenge system should just be ‘win a game of ranked’, not ‘win a game of ranked strongholds’.

They need to revisit the challenges. I’ve been saying this since the first week lol