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[Albondiga]

Seriously, I would love an even more convoluted way to recconect to a match, needing to have a friend explain it to me after a crash while getting our asses wiped is not stressful enough.

Please, hide the menu to recconect behind even more steps instead of having a simple pop up.

Thanks.

[Bombast]

MechBay is being redone this month. Guess we gotta see how it goes before complaining too much.

[El Bandito]

Like everything with MWO, we just have to get used to it until PGI bothers to lift a finger.

[Samantha Rbnsn1990]

I've noticed that just getting into a match period is rather convoluted and unnecessarily obtuse.

- Click Play Button (or whatever it's called)
- Wait For Match
- Presented with Voting Screen
- Splash screen showing game mode and map
- Loading screen also showing game mode and map
- Client crash, GG
- Pre-drop screen
- Fall out of dropships


Maybe if it just asked you straight up when you clicked the join/play/whatever button what mode and map you'd like to play, and then searched out matches that supported those votes, and then put everyone at the pre-drop screen? I think that would be more better less worse fine.

[Nightbird]

Nan, not enough pop to deselect maps/modes at launch.

[Funky Bacon]

Complicated? O.o

May have been a while since I got DC'ed in a game but I don't remember it being complicated in any way. Was like hit the play button and the "reconnect" comes up I think. Did they change that?

[Zergling]

Sure, would you like a captcha for every action?

[Escef]

Albondiga, on 12 April 2018 - 11:18 AM, said:

Seriously, I would love an even more convoluted way to recconect to a match, needing to have a friend explain it to me after a crash while getting our asses wiped is not stressful enough.

Please, hide the menu to recconect behind even more steps instead of having a simple pop up.

Thanks.

Tell me this is a troll post. Even if you have to lie to me, tell me this is a troll post.

[evilauthor]

Funky Bacon, on 12 April 2018 - 12:11 PM, said:

Complicated? O.o

May have been a while since I got DC'ed in a game but I don't remember it being complicated in any way. Was like hit the play button and the "reconnect" comes up I think. Did they change that?

AFAIK, it's always been hit "Quick Play" (even if the match you dc'd from was Faction Play or something) and you're presented with a list of matches your mechs are in.

The problem was that the list is easy to miss if you're not paying attention; you click, look away, then look back a few minutes later wondering why you're not in a queue because the match list has a habit of vanishing when left alone because it's a (very small) dropdown menu instead of being a popup window like the news window you get on first logging in.

[Athom83]

Funky Bacon, on 12 April 2018 - 12:11 PM, said:

Complicated? O.o

May have been a while since I got DC'ed in a game but I don't remember it being complicated in any way. Was like hit the play button and the "reconnect" comes up I think. Did they change that?

Nope. Still that exact way. The thing is, even that is to complicated for some people to understand.

[Jackal Noble]

Athom83, on 12 April 2018 - 04:54 PM, said:

Nope. Still that exact way. The thing is, even that is to complicated for some people to understand.

You don't get it. It's not that it is difficult to do understand.
It is convoluted and inefficient. Even if you jump right back on as fast as possible from being DC'd and or client crash it takes upwards of 1- 2 minutes to reconnect, that is plenty of time for a light pilot worth his weight to find you and kill you before you reconnect. I've seen it many times, as well have logged back in as fast as possible to find a smoking hulk.
Also, separates you from the team and in the age of NASCAR, you usually come out of spawn when the forward elements of the enemy team are coming into view. Great now it's 1 vs 5.
Don't be an arse to try and seem cool.

Edited by JackalBeast, 13 April 2018 - 09:35 AM.

[Andi Nagasia]

JackalBeast, on 13 April 2018 - 09:33 AM, said:

You don't get it. It's not that it is difficult to do understand.
It is convoluted and inefficient.

i feel theirs always room for improvement for any disconnect reconnect in any game,
but how is it convoluted and inefficient?

JackalBeast, on 13 April 2018 - 09:33 AM, said:

Even if you jump right back on as fast as possible from being DC'd and or client crash it takes upwards of 1- 2 minutes to reconnect, that is plenty of time for a light pilot worth his weight to find you and kill you before you reconnect. I've seen it many times, as well have logged back in as fast as possible to find a smoking hulk.

i just did a test, jumped into a match, Apologized in all Chat for the Test for the test, Alt+F4, crashed,
it took me 1min 48secs to get back in, from crash to back playing, thats pretty good for reconnecting to a game,
i know sometimes in League of Legends it can take some times 2-3minutes to reconnect,

JackalBeast, on 13 April 2018 - 09:33 AM, said:

Also, separates you from the team and in the age of NASCAR, you usually come out of spawn when the forward elements of the enemy team are coming into view. Great now it's 1 vs 5.
Don't be an arse to try and seem cool.

this is true, but that goes without saying,
your team really cant pause and wait for you if they have to work toward the objectives?


all in all i think it could be better of course, but what we have no isnt really bad,
DCs are always unfortunate, but they arnt always MWOs fault, their can be a host of factors,
also as your suggesting this is a problem how would you go about fixing it?

Edited by Andi Nagasia, 13 April 2018 - 11:20 AM.

[Magnus Santini]

Andi Nagassi, if you disconnect from a FP game I think you still had to click QP button to get back in. That is not obvious, nor explained anywhere.

[Jackal Noble]

Andi Nagasia, on 13 April 2018 - 11:13 AM, said:

i feel theirs always room for improvement for any disconnect reconnect in any game,
but how is it convoluted and inefficient?


i just did a test, jumped into a match, Apologized in all Chat for the Test for the test, Alt+F4, crashed,
it took me 1min 48secs to get back in, from crash to back playing, thats pretty good for reconnecting to a game,
i know sometimes in League of Legends it can take some times 2-3minutes to reconnect,


this is true, but that goes without saying,
your team really cant pause and wait for you if they have to work toward the objectives?


all in all i think it could be better of course, but what we have no isnt really bad,
DCs are always unfortunate, but they arnt always MWOs fault, their can be a host of factors,
also as your suggesting this is a problem how would you go about fixing it?

Add a rejoin button.
The convoluted part is that one has to click on the "quickplay button" which is associated with starting a fresh new match. I said in another thread, it's drop down action behavior leaves something to be desired, and is finicky for any of us that have experienced being disconnected - By drop down action on the rejoin menu is bad, I mean it quickly minimizes if you don't move the mouse straight down after clicking the quick play button.
By adding a rejoin button up top next to the quickplay button, though it would not make the disco issue better, would go some way to mitigate some of the headache.

[Angel of Annihilation]

Albondiga, on 12 April 2018 - 11:18 AM, said:

Seriously, I would love an even more convoluted way to recconect to a match, needing to have a friend explain it to me after a crash while getting our asses wiped is not stressful enough.

Please, hide the menu to recconect behind even more steps instead of having a simple pop up.

Thanks.

Yeah I feel the same way. I really wish I could suppress that damn advertisement pop up. I check the damn forum near daily so don't need that crap popping up in my face ever time I log in. It especially sucks when your trying to reconnect and have to spend an extra 30 seconds waiting for that crap to load so you can dismiss it and attempt to re-connection.

What should happen is if you were actively in a match when you disconnected, it should automatically place you right back into the match.