I’m I’m not the only one fed up with being joined into games when either a) they are 2/3 over, or b) your team is 20 points behind. It doesn’t always happen, but it happens often enough to be a pain in the butt, especially now that CSR is based on your record and your total score. Barring a miracle you can’t hope to outscore your teammates when you join mid-game, which means that every time it happens, there is a cost to your CSR. There’s also the fatal flaw that in the vast majority of cases, people only quit games when they’re losing. Ergo, when you replace those people you start in the hole. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot.
I recognise that some people really appreciate that CSR exists, so my proposal is this: make ‘in-game join’ a matchmaking preference option, just like ‘prefer good connection’ and so forth were in the old games. If you’re a social gamer and you just want to play as many games as possible, switch it on – if you’re competitive and/or you just want to play FULL games, switch it off.
I would much rather wait an extra 30 seconds searching for a match than join in the middle of one that’s almost over. Thoughts?
I just system link when a JiP match comes up in search now to be honest. It’s no drama personally.
I swear they fixed this in the last update cause I’m halfway through getting the Commando armour and I ALWAYS used to join a game where my team are utter IDIOTS and don’t understand defending and attacking, all they did was take a base then run off to the next and before you know it I join and my team has about 20 points and the other about 300.
But since the last update the other day I always get paired with a good team where I aren’t the only one who knows how to play the game and then we can always win. I always join a game that has either 1) In the menu about to start
2) A game that has literally just started and I am well on my way to getting my armour.
JiP is a lot better since they updated the parameters but on playlists where you are trying to rank up in CSR I doubt you will see many players use it. Still most the time I join a JiP match it because they are losing and some one quit.
I don’t mind JIP, the problem though as someone said is joining too late. I don’t care if I’m on the winning or losing side, joining too late (on score based csr playlists) means its an instant ‘loss’. You’ve not got enough time to get the points you need to rank up.
Whilst it has improved its still bad. Just yesterday I joined an IS game on the winning side up 420-200. Yeh, I won the game, but could not possibly get enough points to finish in the top half. So I rank down.
Once again, JIP is good, I know if my teammate quits in the first minute then I’d like to get another, but the parameters need tweaking. IMO there should be a 2min cap. No JIP after 2mins.
There’s an issue that someone hasn’t done very good maths as well.
As a very bad player, adding me to a team that is already losing does not help the situation.
It often results in a battle that’s already a mismatch becoming a total rout.