Let me add a few more thoughts after a few more days of play.
Queue times seem to be improving. beauj16 - keep trying.
I'm not going to count the next observation as a good or bad thing - I'm only going to put it out there for anyone to make of it what they will: Having live players as squadmates is most typically leading to situations where the dominant or most aggressive teammate is racking up all the kills while the rest of the squad struggles for assists. I don't really have an opinion one way or the other, but I'm getting the impression that other people do.
Also, I'm seeing a lot of people get downed, and they wait for a res, and if they don't get it then they quit. And it doesn't matter how often I ping the replicator that I'm standing directly in front of. Maybe they don't know what a replicator is. Maybe they mistakenly believe it will be faster for them to re-queue than re-spawn. I don't know. It doesn't matter to me - I'll play it out with or without them - but it seems strange.
Lastly - and this again isn't something I'm calling good or bad, I'm just observing that it's so - in the lobby it's becoming almost common for the first player at legend selection to choose a legend which is already showing as desired by player no. 2 or player no. 3. I think players are beginning to do this aggressively as a way of trying to get rid of at least one squadmate. That's what it looks like to me. And I can say that many times I've seen it work exactly as intended. I guess player no. 1 thinks that this gets them closer to a 20 bomb. Can you even get a 20 bomb in bot royale? At any rate, IF this is happening a lot, and IF it's happening for the reasons I think it is, then an obvious fix would be to allow squadmates to play the same legends just as they can in Wildcard. Why not?
