One crash every thousand games?
I played TGs last weekend, one of my very first games after patch, the server crashed before loading screen, I know it was a server crash because my premades also got disconnected, and we all got a 5 minute TO. The irony, mind you, is that there is actually a trick to dodge the penalty, which we know (and which apparently you don’t know, since you naively believe Alt-F4’ers get punished in this patch), but the trick only works if you intentionally Alt-F4 and here it was a server crash, so we got royally pwn’d.
How strange is this forum. On one side we have the bug report forum filled with people complaining about unjustified penalties, but apparently most of those are salty Alt-F4’ers (strange, when a true Alt-f4’er can just delete TC to dodge the penalty). and on the other side, you guys who apparently can play 100s of games without a crash, claim that the queues are now much faster, yet you don’t even know that people can just delete TC to dodge penalty, sure, seems totally realistic.
My only guess is that some people here don’t play the game yet still feel entitled to comment. If you would at least be coherent, you could say that you like the idea behind the patch, but don’t say that Alt-F4’ers are being punished, or that queue times are faster, that is OBVIOUSLY false, because Alt-f4’ers are NOT being punished in the current iteration of the patch, they can still Alt-f4 like before, they just have to delete TC instead of Alt-f4’ing. The delete TC trick was published here within hours after the hotfix and I’ve seen people do it in ranked day 1, so anyone claiming that “queue times are faster” must be hit by severe placebo effect.
Right now the only people who are being punished are the ones who don’t know about the TC delete trick, aka people who legitimately disconnect, likely due to TG bugs. The server crash I described above is not a rare instance, I’ve got it in previous patches. This particular crash was reported here within days of after the hotfix Bug: penalty received for a game that did not start , it was probably reported before but nobody cared because one would just requeue and forget about it. The forum is filled with similar reports of bugs and crashes, I talk with friends who play this game and they also get the same bugs, I have no idea how you can think the game is stable. On top of game bugs, at every new patch one guy has to alt-f4 because he forgot to re-enable mods which reset after every patch (reported since November 2019 and still present for some reason, and no sorry we aren’t playing a 1-hour long match sandbagging and wasting APM looking at those large trees just so that someone can enjoy 5 min less time in the queue), several ones have got crashes in the queue due to consulting tech tree crashes (keeps re-appearing patch after patch despite devs saying they have fixed it) and then about 1/10th of the time when we get a game someone in the opposing team drops within 30 seconds.