Currently you are unable to rejoin/requeue into a ranked match if your game crashes etc. causing an instant loss equivalent of multiple wins worth of games (screenshots - https://imgur.com/a/7eWR2gK).
In Quick Play or other casual modes, if you requeue for a game after crashing or even leaving you can often find yourself being instantly placed back into the same match. This shows the ability to rejoin a match you left is possible to some extent (no limits on who can join those games). The inability to rejoin a ranked game is detrimental to the community who enjoy and wish to further compete in the mode.
So yeah, mostly curious about whether this is being looked at by 343 at all for either the February patch or a future patch.
Thank you,
-Griftz
NOTE: I haven’t seen any 343/dev feedback on posts regarding this topic which is why I have created this one. If it has been previously covered, please link it below !
You could even temporarily reduce the opposition team to three to keep the game even. Rotate the extra player off the bench with each death.
But no other Halo had implemented this.
And I know we get countless posts about people’s game or modems glitching. But I suspect most are just quitters. Pure and simple. Hardly anyone randomly drops out mid to late game when they are in front.
Tbh, I never even thought about this feature until people from other games who gave tried Halo brought it up.
It is a good idea, and most of the reasons that ranked is so completely locked down seem to me like they stem from H2 and H3 MM history, where you could fake disconnects to get an advantage in the game. That’s pretty outdated and probably not a worry anymore with dedicated servers.
Completely agree here, this is in dire need of being implemented. With cross play and multiple systems being used there seem to be higher rates of PC players being kicked during loading from game crashing. This not only hurts the player who crashed, but essentially makes it near 100% that the rest of their team will lose and have a bad game. I’ve seen games where one player crashes and the rest of the team either suffers through a beating or they also quit to get it over with.
I feel that adding something like a “vote to concede” option would not be ideal as this would lead people in full matches that are losing to quit and end early and defeats a lot of the spirit of competition in ranked play. However, that leads back to the other solution of allowing a player to re-join a match if they are kicked. I have never quit a ranked game but personally have been kicked during loading in at least a dozen games and have had several friends complain of the same issue. It won’t be possible for 343 to prevent all crashing, so the only solution to improving gameplay for all is to allow for players to re-join and not punish all 4 players.
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