Joining GAC by mistake
I hadn't received any notification of the result of my last battle so I decided to go in to have a look for myself. I pressed the button to enter only to realised I had joined instead. The next GAC,...
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"Vos_Landeck;c-2223392" wrote:"InyakSolomon88;c-2222623" wrote:
that is a LONG overdue QoL we need. we can do it with TW so why not GAC?
Matchmaking in GAC occurs when we join. Matchmaking in TW doesn't occur until the lock. So we can't leave in GAC because we're already matched up....even though we don't see it on our side yet.
Not exactly.
The matchmaking process supposedly starts when you click join but it definitely does not end there.
If you join a GA at the start of the 24 hr window and subsequently claim feats to get promoted up a league towards the end of the 24 hr window then you will get matched with a bracket full of players from the higher league. I know because I did it deliberately to see what would happen.
"Vos_Landeck;c-2223392" wrote:
The reason that the GAC system was changed from rosters being locked at the close of the timer is because errors were occurring which allowed people to switch mods for offensive teams during the GAC. People could literally swap their best mod sets in there for every battle. They were unable to successfully prevent that issue from continuing to occur so they chose to change the system to lock rosters upon joining instead.
No. The mod switching was a user interface problem which was fixed separately.
