This game isn't fun anymore
I will try to keep this as brief as I can. For the record, I play non-ranked, due to ranked matches being hard to get in Oceania servers.
This game just isn't enjoyable to play anymore unless you're playing with the same teammates in a party for a couple of hours. I often play in a party with friends, but we all have lives, so we can't always play together. Matchmaking with random players is an awful experience 70% of the time in the games current state. There are 3 main reasons for this:
1) I constantly get matched with only one other teammate, or there is a third, but they disconnect in the character screen because:
A) They didn't get the character they want (less likely than b.)
or
B) The game freezes (sometimes even crashes) during the character select screen, which never unfreezes, meaning players have to end task and relaunch the game, ruining the game for their now disadvantaged teammates. A lot of teammates I've had will simply disconnect once they see the first one go because they don't want every fight for the rest of the game to be a 2v3, and whilst I don't condone leaving the game, I don't blame them for this reason. In 3 player squads, this is a serious disadvantage.
2) Even more frequently than reason 1 (at least once every 2-3 games currently), in the middle of a fight, teammates rage quit and disconnect upon being downed, not finished, not the respawn banner timing out, just being downed. The majority of the time it was entirely possible to revive them either during the fight, or after, as these fights are pretty commonly won. It leaves a bitter taste, winning the fight, but your teammate disconnected anyway. When teammates are finished, but the fight is won, their banners get picked up, and while myself or a teammate is on the way to the beacon, they often leave anyway. Even when I'm mere meters away from the beacon.
3) Solo droppers. We all know this one, they decide they don't like your choice of landing location, so they drop on the other side of the map, die within a minute or two, and leave you and your other teammate (if you were fortunate enough to get one) to fight 2v3 for the rest of the match.
The 3 player team dynamic is a massive part of what makes this game fun, finding clever combinations of legends for your team, such as the classic Wattson-Caustic tactical pairing, or Bloodhounds Ultimate and Bangalores tactical. However, once the 3 man squad turns into 2 or even 1 for any of these above reasons, it completely ruins it for me.
I know there are simple solutions that respawn can come up with to amend all of this, I am just curious as to why this hasn't happened yet. for myself, this is a far bigger issue than any weapon buff/nerf issues, and I feel like this should really be addressed first, as it has completely ruined the core game experience for me.
I still love this game, but it isn't fun in its current state.
Thanks for reading
- Nate
