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In the last game, I had a teammate with ping 200 who was frequently AFKing (probably connection issues), and who didn't follow the rest of the team and barely got any kills.

While it's obvious that nobody can predict how their internet connection is going to be, I think that adding a neat feature for people with high latency would be very useful for the whole team.

Simply, when they want to queue a competitive game, add an "Are you sure you want to continue to a competitive game? Your internet connection is bad" popup, just like there is a popup when you want to exit the game. This would be very useful because then the poor people wouldn't impact the whole team's rank.

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over 3 years ago - /u/aeneia - Direct link

I love seeing this! This is something we've actually discussed as a team. I can't speak to any plans to build it or not, but I just wanted to validate your thoughts here: it's a freaking great idea :)

EDIT: To follow up on others' comments, it's true that many folks end up getting connection issues in the middle of games. That's why our new warnings and penalty system tells players, "Hey, you disconnected a lot last game. Fix yo stuff before jumping in again." (Those exact words, I swear)

....as you may guess, some players are still, indeed, queueing back up lol. But not all of them!

over 3 years ago - /u/aeneia - Direct link

Originally posted by Gooierwheat

Your game sometimes closes itself . Would that be a client side error or server side .

Unfortunately I don't have the answer to that question :( I have many sciences, but that one is not mine lol