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As a new player this is currently by biggest gripe with this game. It's in beta testing which means crashes and issues are to be expected... and yet I can't seem to rejoin a disconnected match when those issues creep up. This is the sort of feature that needs to be in the game now, where crashes and disconnects are expected to be at their highest; not a feature saved for a full release a ways down the road, where it will be of far less importance. If this were a game like War Thunder, where you could just join another match right away with the same stuff, it wouldn't be so much of an issue. But as it stands I only have one non-trial mech, and when the game crashes I have to wait for 10-15 minutes to keep playing again.
This discourages at least me from playing: more often than not I'll just close the game and go do something else for an hour or two, rather than sit around and wait for 15 minutes, and I don't imagine this is something a game developer would want. Every match or so I always see at least one person on either team "AFK"; or, more likely, disconnected/crashed. So this not only affects those with crashes and connection issues, but those who are matched with them as well.
I've looked through recent developer interviews and upcoming additions and I don't see any mention of this issue being rectified or even looked into (though maybe I haven't dug deep enough). Like I said in the beginning, maybe there is a way to do this and I'm just missing it because I'm new, but if there isn't this needs to be a higher priority, especially as we're still technically in beta. Just the 2¢ of a new (and slightly peeved!) player.
Edited by SnakeTheFox, 11 March 2013 - 02:23 PM.
