Joining mid-game is the worst thing that has been grafted from other games. The main reason being that the most likely reason for a gap to fill in a game is that the team with a vacancy is being dominated and someone decided to quit. This usually results in you being dumped in a game where you will definitely loose. Why should you or me be put there? Who would want to be there?
Of course the worst occurrence is when you join a game and then it instantly finishes, whether you get credited a win or loss isn’t really the point, although it’ll most likely be a loss, taking into account vacancies are usually on the losing team.
I honestly see no point in the joining mid-game system, it only serves to dump you in a losing team most of the time.
I don’t mind it all that much. The biggest problem for me in Halo was dominating a team then all of a sudden it’s 4v1 since 3 players left… that makes for a very long, drawn out game. Games go faster when players get put in during the match.
Once that match is over, stay in the lobby and enjoy a new game.
I have yet to really have a bad mid-game join. Every game I have been placed into put me on a winning team or one behind by 10-30 points. Better that then hunting one person for 20 minutes.
> I don’t mind it all that much. The biggest problem for me in Halo was dominating a team then all of a sudden it’s 4v1 since 3 players left… that makes for a very long, drawn out game. Games go faster when players get put in during the match.
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> Once that match is over, stay in the lobby and enjoy a new game.
The way you worded your post it seems to me that you don’t mind because you are rarely on the receiving end of the issue. What I heard was “oh yeah I love JIP, when my To4 is dominating randoms, it makes for much quicker games when there are constantly 4 people in the game to kill”
> I have yet to really have a bad mid-game join. Every game I have been placed into put me on a winning team or one behind by 10-30 points. Better that then hunting one person for 20 minutes.
I have had generally the same experience except in Oddball (probably due to low numbers). Have had at least 5 games where it was 150 to 0 when I joined.
