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Peri_Longbow_pl's avatar
Peri_Longbow_pl
5 years ago

Here is the thing: I don't care about leaver penalties in Arena, but...

I care about the matches I'm in that have one or two missing people.

Once again I am forced to play Arena, a game mode that conceptually I find nice, but when it comes to the execution, I'm not really that impressed. Not only because the prime weapon choices will always be the same (Spit all day), but because as a marksman and a sniper, you have zero use in Arenas and just gotta pray that someone walks past your cross hair before disappearing behind the next building. Because we hand people a weapon that requires patience, in a game where you can't have a second of patience.

Anyway, since we had issues with people leaving Arenas, we introduced an abandon penalty of 10 excruciating minutes. Which only affects those people that have legitimate reasons to leave, and actual leavers abuse the system... So yeah... Better idea!

Compensate the team that was abandoned or has to bear with an AFK player. You know, if someone is AFK or leaves, I don't care about their burden of having to wait. Because that doesn't change my match in any way. No, what I could use is some compensation for actually being abandoned. You know, going after the style of "25% damage reduction when one team mate is missing, 50% damage reduction when two team mates are missing" - Because at least I could manage something if I had that. In the cases of people leaving, I either have to bear the burden of receiving an extra challenge, or I leave the game and waited all that time for nothing.

Thoughts?

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  • Midnight9746's avatar
    Midnight9746
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    5 years ago
    @Peri_Longbow_plz The game should pause for a moment when someone leaves, goes afk, or someone got no teammates, and you hear Ash say one of the following:

    Leave:
    - One of you dare disapoint me, no worries... I will find another challenger
    - A challenger has left... there will be another

    AFK:
    - I see someone doesn't wish to fight, maybe I can find someone who will
    - There's no time for site seeing, I'll bring in a legend who will fight

    No Teammates:
    - It seems the game is unbalanced... I shall correct that mistake
    - Arenas must start out equal, with one team rising above the other, I will correct this

    The game doesn't continue until a player joins and fills in the slot of the missing legend(s). The player who joins will be able to switch legends to one that isn't picked by the alive teammate(s).
  • Midnight9746's avatar
    Midnight9746
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    5 years ago
    @AcidicSoda44031 They very much so shouldn't get exp either. When you leave, you should forfit all the stats and such you fought for up to that point.

    I also feel like after so many disconnects from arenas in a short time - even in ranked, the game should "ban" the player from that mode, until they can play a certain amount of pub games in a row *without* disconnecting and it requires them to be with a team, so they can't solo que, die, and get back into ranked or arenas.

    This means players don't exactly get banned from all gamemodes, but rather the mode they keep leaving - it can teach players to stop disconnecting from a match they're losing, otherwise they'll lose privilages to that mode.

    Although, I had a player on my team who sounded like a kid around the age of 7-12. I muted them because I didn't feel like hearing children while I play arenas. I wiped the enemy squad in round 1, and this kid left *without* being knocked. In other words, I guess they got triggered that I killed the whole enemy team. The kid put in zero effort to kill the players themselves.

    Matchmaking needs to match similar skill players and not shove anyone and everyone together. This kid was level 14 and could barely aim, enemy team had a level 9 and 23, (their third was like level 100 something) with the level 9 being a smurph.

    I'm getting rather annoyed with getting noob teammates and going against smurphs or cheaters each and every game. We shouldn't have to put in 300% effort just to cover what our teammates lack.

    I also keep getting AFK or non-existing teammates, and that in of itself is annoying.
  • TheApexLegendNu's avatar
    TheApexLegendNu
    5 years ago

    @Midnight9746Thats basically why I gave up on Arenas, at first I was loving Arenas and it was the only game mode I was playing but after they introduced the penalties I haven’t touched Arenas at all except for Arena Event Challenges,  I thought it would of gotten better because teammates wouldn’t be instantly leaving but penalties actually made the game mode a nightmare...

    I seem to constantly get either AFK Teammates, 1-2 Teammates that are missing, or be put against a team of smurf/aimbotters hitting nothing but headshots in literally every single game and only 1 out of 6-10 games might actually be playable... the matchmaking is also a joke because I can have 2 newer players and the enemy team will be a 3 stack clan with thousands of kills and hundreds of wins each...

    I think Arena Penalties should be removed except for Ranked Arenas, I also think they should try out your suggestion to ‘’fill in’’ for the missing teammate(s), the players who leave the game early will forfeit their win streak and any kills, damage, challenge progress, etc earned during the match and only if they consecutively leave arena games (2-3 in a row) will they be penalized

    my problem with the current system is that a teammate can be afk, but you are not allowed to leave or YOU will be penalized when the afk teammate is the one who deserves to be penalized... I had a game as Rampart where a teammate kept instantly destroying my shields and sabotaging the game and once again I would be the one penalized when he is the one who should be penalized... basically Penalties punish everyone except the people who actually deserve the penalty 

  • Midnight9746's avatar
    Midnight9746
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    5 years ago

    @TheApexLegendNubActual facts

    Besides, the penalty doesn't stop people from leaving - I'm constantly seeing players dashboarding or Alt+F4'ing out of matches, and they put their team at a huge disadvantage. Honestly at this point, might as well ban players from the mode for extended periods of time. Because clearly a 10 minute slap on the rist isn't stopping them.

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