Mercy Rule in Warzone

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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I am absolutely livid. There really is no reason that my team should have to keep playing a game that we are losing 750 - 150 and are spawn trapped in home base. “Oh”, you say, “Well, they can just destroy your core and end it.” WELL, that’s not how it works because the winning team has to decided when they want to win the game. The winning team is smart enough to just farm kills until they reach 975 points then decided to kill the core.

There either needs to be a mercy rule in place to just ends the game after a certain difference of points (That would scale based on how many points both teams had. I’ve come back from losing 400 - 100, but not 800 - 400)

OR let the losing team vote that they want to end the game.

I don’t know if this is the right answer, or how to implement it. It’s very frustrating to play with a broken game mechanic.

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The mercy rule seems like a fine idea, the losing team could vote on it or something once a score threshold is reached.

I wanted to let you know that if your getting stomped you can go back by where the pelican drops you off… they cant spawnkill you back there & they usually dont explore that far into your base.

3

There should be a resign rule in Arena. No one wants to play 4 against 1. Whether your the lone player or of the the team of 4. It sucks. They should make it where 100% of the player left agree to end the game, then the game should be ended.

4

If Palmer says you can still win this, you can still win it!

5

“its not over yet we can still destroy the enemy core!”
“oh and if any of yall wanna hit what im smoking to think that remember puff puff pass”

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The mercy rule only promotes people not wanting to finish games. It often causes people to quit games more if there isn’t a mercy rule. Personally I think the mercy is saying that you give up before the match ends.

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> The mercy rule only promotes people not wanting to finish games. It often causes people to quit games more if there isn’t a mercy rule. Personally I think the mercy is saying that you give up before the match ends.

Nothing wrong with waving the white flag if we can’t fight back…

I agree with this idea. There should be a white flag you can wave to the enemy team to forfeit the match…

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I would agree with this in both warzone, and in arena as well when it gets down to 4v1

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I got to experience that situation today and I agree that it should be at least looked at in a sense that they could try and get matches more even when compared to skills. I’ve been on teams that dominate, and some that are basically just there. Not sure how they would set it up, but just a thought.

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“I wanted to let you know that if your getting stomped you can go back by where the pelican drops you off… they cant spawnkill you back there & they usually dont explore that far into your base.”

Great you can spend ten minutes hidding looking at the wall how exciting really?

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> I wanted to let you know that if your getting stomped you can go back by where the pelican drops you off… they cant spawnkill you back there & they usually dont explore that far into your base.
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> Great you can spend ten minutes hidding looking at the wall how exciting really?

Didnt say it was fun, its a way to not get spawnkilled by 4 scorpions.

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I played League of Legends while it was in beta, and it had a forfeit option. People would immediately begin voting with the tiniest of leads going to the enemy.

As long as there is a set of parameters (game time must be > 7:00, score difference must be 300+ [equal to two legendary bosses], etc) then this is a fine idea. If you can go in and start voting because you weren’t the one to get the first boss takedown or because the enemy team captured their armory first… no.

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> I played League of Legends while it was in beta, and it had a forfeit option. People would immediately begin voting with the tiniest of leads going to the enemy.
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> As long as there is a set of parameters (game time must be > 7:00, score difference must be 300+ [equal to two legendary bosses], etc) then this is a fine idea. If you can go in and start voting because you weren’t the one to get the first boss takedown or because the enemy team captured their armory first… no.

I could see the mercy rule getting abused like that. Also make it that say at least half of the team needs to agree on it when it gets to that part. Some players quit after the other team gets the first boss and captures the monument, I could definitely see them voting mercy rule over that. Figuring out the points being awarded would be the next issue as the other team will want what they earned and will be mad that they couldn’t get more by playing longer. Almost a no win when trying to make that fair for everyone.