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[Tchalla763]

I wonder if anyone else has experienced this. When starting/joining a new match, instead of being taken to the lobby, you are just thrust into the middle of a battle. No word on what wave you are on or which map you are going to? It's not a big deal but is rather disorienting being thrown in the middle of a firefight like that. Is this something that will be corrected on the full game or will this be par for the course? Any ideas? 

[gadna13]

Yea this has been happening to me quite a bit lately. I don't really mind but it seems that when it usually happens, my 3 teammates are down and when my screen loads there's a few people already meleeing me.

[The Makatak]

Yes; it started happening around the same time that they increased the gold drop rates for Vet packs. I'm assuming it was a hotfix since we never got asked to download anything. And suddenly it's been happening a lot. If I'm not put in to a lobby with a N7 Rank 1 host with the difficulty set to Gold, I'll wind up in Round 1 of someone's game with some unknown difficulty (until I pause and check).

It's very weird.

[D Amiri]

Personally I think it should happen more often. It's the only way to fill games when someone DC's or you start shorthanded. I usually am ready for it now. I can tell it going to happen because my controller starts vibrating from getting shot before I leave the loading screen.

[Chaoswind]

I love it when that happens, seems like a challenge to catch up

[mysticforce42]

I got thrown into a wave 10 of a silver with everybody else dead - quickest 20k credits I ever made.

Personaly I like it - it keeps things interesting.

[witlessrogue85]

First time it happened to me was today, like 4 times. I died twice before the screen was even loaded on two of them.

Personally I'm fine with it (aside from the dead before fully loaded bits). I felt bad getting credits from Rnd 3 that I didn't earn, but I hope I made up for that.

[Inverse]

Spawn in wave 10, be greeted by a turret and Phantom. Kill them, win, get money and xp after 3 minutes of 'hard' work. Good deal!

[gadna13]

D Amiri wrote...

Personally I think it should happen more often. It's the only way to fill games when someone DC's or you start shorthanded. I usually am ready for it now. I can tell it going to happen because my controller starts vibrating from getting shot before I leave the loading screen.

Yea good point, I'm all in favor of having someone added to my games when someone else disconnects. And if I'm in favor of that than I have to be ready to get thrust into ongoing games myself.

[Pressedcat]

This has been happening to me (on the Xbox) ever since the demo was released. If anything, I would say it has been occurring more infrequently lately.

A couple of days ago I was dropped into a silver match about 40 seconds from full extraction. Didn't really feel I earned the 100k+ experience for that one.

Modifié par Pressedcat, 04 mars 2012 - 12:37 .

[Pobatti]

D Amiri wrote...

Personally I think it should happen more often. It's the only way to fill games when someone DC's or you start shorthanded. I usually am ready for it now. I can tell it going to happen because my controller starts vibrating from getting shot before I leave the loading screen.

It certainly should. I can't imagine how much time this has saved me, given that I've got lucky and joined matches in the last 20-30 seconds before extraction, sometimes even on gold, and gotten the full experience reward the other 3 players have managed to accumulate for the whole run.

Then again.. perhaps it shouldn't. It always felt really cheap when that happened to me.

[Sbri]

I'd just like to know what's going on when I'm dropped in. I respond differently to wave 3 then I do to wave 9. A little heads up would be nice.

[Sabbatine]

Tchalla763 wrote...

I wonder if anyone else has experienced this. When starting/joining a new match, instead of being taken to the lobby, you are just thrust into the middle of a battle. No word on what wave you are on or which map you are going to? It's not a big deal but is rather disorienting being thrown in the middle of a firefight like that. Is this something that will be corrected on the full game or will this be par for the course? Any ideas? 

What is there to correct?  Hit escape to see the wave number.  The map is pretty obvious when you look at it... but if you choose to play on a specific map rather than random I believe it will only ever put you on the specified map.

[GracefulChicken]

It feels cheap, but you didn't do it on purpose, and you didn't detract from their game. Plus, if you'd joined in wave 3, no one would even notice. I think it's a reasonable system. I've only been thrust into really bad situations this way a few times, and it was more funny than frustrating. I spawned right on the landing pad during a chain-revive session. 5 revives in a minute 30. Oooh yeah. One medal baby, 100k experience.

Plus, I like being on the other end of this. When 2 people leave on wave 7, and 2 more people come, I'm thankful for the system, not mad about it. 

Modifié par GracefulChicken, 04 mars 2012 - 12:43 .

[Pobatti]

GracefulChicken wrote...

It feels cheap, but you didn't do it on purpose, and you didn't detract from their game. Plus, if you'd joined in wave 3, no one would even notice. I think it's a reasonable system. I've only been thrust into really bad situations this way a few times, and it was more funny than frustrating. I spawned right on the landing pad during a chain-revive session. 5 revives in a minute 30. Oooh yeah. One medal baby, 100k experience.

Plus, I like being on the other end of this. When 2 people leave on wave 7, and 2 more people come, I'm thankful for the system, not mad about it. 

That's quite a frequent thing too. I rationalise it as the players having major difficulty surviving and keeping each other alive, to the point where one person ragequits. The next person who does a search for random matches finds themselves in the immediate position of having to revive all three of the others and barely succeeds if ever.

[GracefulChicken]

Quite possible. It seems to fill the gaps as soon as possible, so that might be a factor in that as well. I've noticed on the 360, when you search for games, if it isnt connected to a game within literally 2 seconds, the best bet is to cancel and search again until it does it immediately. These seem to be the best games suited to your connection, so the longer you wait, the worse connection you end up having in the game you're put in. It also seems when it does it immediately, this situation is more likely to happen. It puts you into an active game (which I quite like doing)

[Chaoswind]

I joined a Silver on wave 7 and everyone was DEAD, I managed to Solo the remaining guys and saved the wave + knowing that they had no Medigel I took it upon myself to be a great Rez infiltrator pony and we completed the match

[Sailears]

Chaoswind wrote...

I love it when that happens, seems like a challenge to catch up

Yeah it's quite exciting getting thrown into a random match like that.

[Lord_Haywire]

I have been dumped in on a game that was in round six on silver and ended up getting first place somehow. I have no idea how that worked because I didn't think that there were enough points left to even score that high. But what annoys me is when I get dumped into a game which then everyone dies and quits on me so the match resets.

Modifié par Lord_Haywire, 04 mars 2012 - 01:14 .

[Pobatti]

Lord_Haywire wrote...

I have been dumped in on a game that was in round six on silver and ended up getting first place somehow. I have no idea how that worked because I didn't think that there were enough points left to even score that high. But what annoys me is when I get dumped into a game which then everyone dies and quits on me so the match resets.

You probably found yourself in the following situation:

• A match is set up with 4 people.
• Only one person is doing any actual work.
• The others are doing absolutely nothing and sometimes are AFK.
• The guy with the points notices this, and ragequits - taking his points with him.
• An empty slot is made, you come along and fill this slot.

It's not always identical to that, but the general principal is usually the same if you find yourself entering a match at Wave 5 or later and everyone in the game has very few points.

[FFLB]

Being dropped right in the middle of a match is fine. You don't have to wait for people to ready up. lol

[Fortack]

Curunen wrote...

Yeah it's quite exciting getting thrown into a random match like that.

When you spawn next to two Atlases, four Phantoms, a couple turrets and a bunch of other goons - it's not

What I would like to have is the option to view the info about the match you're joining. When I go online, I'm usually asked to join a friend's game. But I do not know what level, what characters, classes, how many players and so on are in the match. I think it would be helpful to know these things in advance, so you can spec your character accordingly and/or select a class that complements the others already in play. Shouldn't be too difficult to implement IMHO.

[Pobatti]

FFLB wrote...

Being dropped right in the middle of a match is fine. You don't have to wait for people to ready up. lol

It can be infuriating though if you're in a 3 person team, because a lot of folks start the search and then immediately run off the the toilet to take a dump or something. Normally you'd only see this as folks not readying up - but when dumped into a match you'll get a dude joining who is AFK from the start and promptly dies. By the time he comes off the toilet, the rest of the team have won the match and his character maybe gained a level or two.

Levelling while you (are on the toilet) is never a legitimate strategy. This problem seems to actively encourage it.

[Sailears]

Fortack wrote...

Curunen wrote...

Yeah it's quite exciting getting thrown into a random match like that.

When you spawn next to two Atlases, four Phantoms, a couple turrets and a bunch of other goons - it's not

What I would like to have is the option to view the info about the match you're joining. When I go online, I'm usually asked to join a friend's game. But I do not know what level, what characters, classes, how many players and so on are in the match. I think it would be helpful to know these things in advance, so you can spec your character accordingly and/or select a class that complements the others already in play. Shouldn't be too difficult to implement IMHO.

Haha, I should have said - on silver or bronze!
I don't do random matches on gold (yet).

There needs to be a lot done with the system - text chatroom (either via origin or ingame) and groups, to name two things.