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[Kn0wledge2310]

Tournament Bug during matchmaking

Currently, I've met some bugs while playing tournament. Sometimes during matchmaking, right before the match is about to start, it says "Missing players:4" and it will remain in this state. Then after a few minutes, the game will tell that the match has been dismissed by server, resulting the match to appear as a tie.

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Sorry for the images being in german language.

If the tie situation appears in quarter finals or higher, the match will count as a lose and the tournament will end.

I don't know what causes this problem as it does not appear every match, though it happens some times to me, which is already nasty enough

[CrunaCross]

Oh Centurions have their own tournament! Great! So atleast you will not quit in the first 30 seconds, because of the tournament penality. So you have to deal with the ignorance of the devs regarding this character. You know what they said? "He's not strong, only annoying to play against" HAHAHAHAHAHA That really was hilarious! Also they said that some UNKNOWN more knowledgeable players of which NOBODY knows anything about, are saying that Centurion is not OP. Hahaha. They try to explain that all the really knowledgeable streamers and others are lying while they have some sort of HIDDEN players who know something others don't. Oh but WELCOME to the tournament! Let the cheese stink your game!

[CandleInTheDark]

Reposting feedback I left in another thread yesterday.

Only played one so far, it isn't really my main focus right now until I have finished grinding a few rep levels, will be going back into it eventually if just to get my first ranking. From that one and from streams and comments here there seem to be four main issues.

Wait time between matches: I think Ubisoft could do with either making a spectate mode (useful for scouting future opponents), letting players do ai matches they can be pulled out of without affecting anyone else or when their training mode has been improved allowing access to that in the offtime. Wait time is increased if someone disconnects, I had to wait around ten minutes between my first and my second match as my first opponent left in the first round of my first match and my second official qualifier match was a bye for another who had left. A spectate mode might also be a good thing for those honour folk who go to brawl because they like to watch matches as well since the tournament maps aren't all about ledges which was one of the main complaints and it might makefor less toxicity in brawl if people want to 2v2 (any honour brawlers want to weigh in on this point?)

XP and rewards: They said on the last Den that xp is balanced so that it is a matter of roughly xp over time as opposed to per game mode. Now the longest dominion is 20 minutes, the tournament warns you that you are committing to 35 minutes to an hour. In my opinion, xp should not be given for individual duels but at the end when other rewards are given out and that everyone,regardless how far they got if they have to stick around until the end, should have at least two or three times the dominion xp, other options on top of this are to have more xp for placing better and to share it on a ratio towards which characters you used (used your conqueror two matches and your berserker two before being knocked out in the quarters? Both get half). They also need to work in a way where unlocked rewards like ornaments and paint patterns are relevant to the player, the game knows where you have your rep levels and what characters you have used in the tournament,one or both of these should be what weights what character you get the rewards from.

Connection: Yeah it is bad that people are getting dropped out of matches.Just remember though that they wanted to get the router bug fixed first but here and on reddit people have gone on and on and on about not having ranked yet, they have done the best they can to mitigate that by not allowing red nat to join but any connection issues routers would have fixed is on those who could not be patient.

Ban x character: It worked in MLG but I really doubt it is going to work here, the only character ubisoft banned is the raider after they introduced a bug into him that they needed to hotfix. Ubisoft have their win/loss balancing and unless something really does get skewed it is a case of learn to deal with it because people are not going to be able to bully and petition the devs into it like they did the MLG organisers. Really, those who quit duels when they see a character they dislike but are serious enough about duels they will spend time in tournaments have caused half the problems they face for themselves.

[CandleInTheDark]

The concept is great though(!!), I dont really understand why out of 2 pools, still everyone is qualified (I believe its for testing purposes only). The length isn't an issue as long as someone doesnt make the first hit and start running (Even if I'm waiting, I can just watch some youtube in the meantime).

I would imagine because it is the only clean way they can get three knockout rounds,the alternatives are two advance, you only have semis and finals, three advance,four random losers in the first knockout round are given a second chance or two random losers chosen to advance (maybe based on some damage done parameter),comes across as random and unfair and those who win have to wait for another round of duels. Also bear in mind that as it stands everyone has to wait until it is finished, so people only have to wait two rounds instead of three if they lose early (EDIT of course if only four advance they only have to wait two rounds in any case, I forgot to factor that in, gives them another chance to make the semis I guess). The other alternative I see, and I think the best one providing those who lose in the groups are then able to leave with rewards is to have four pools and top two from each advance.

I did kind of feel sorry for my quarter final opponent in the one I played, don't get me wrong, top pool a absolutely should meet bottom of pool b, but my opponent was bottom for a reason, that reason being he really needed more 1v1 duels before going into a tournament and he was an easy 3-0 (seriously, three top heavies in a row against a character with deflect?) so four duels lost, I would guess the other three as badly as against me, and he had to wait for two more rounds to finish.

[Toran80]

Possible Bug at the end of a Tournament:

Finished a tournament and went to search for Dominion game afterwards. I was put into the Dominion Lobby on the menu, however instead of the menu I was put back into the Aftermath Menu/Results page of the tournament and unable to do anything. When I backed out of the it sent me to the main menu with everything locked due to me 'participating in another activity'. I stayed in the lobby and got into the game regardless, but the menu bug/glitch is a little odd considering it could potentially cause people to restart their games and waste some time. Shouldn't happen either way.

Had the exact same bug like ChankasRightArm when playing Dominion after a Ranked Tournament.

EDIT: Had the bug again. It seems to have something to do when war assets have not been spent after finishing the tourney.

[vgrimr_J]

There is only 4 problems for me in tournaments.

1. lag abusers went against guy who was teleporting in finals all over the place.
2 pk.(i play on console)
3 xp gain is not enough for a tournaments that last so long.
4 rewards needs to be tied to a hero who wins the tournament and for the lower rewards.

[Alustar.exe]

As a person who plays almost exclusively 4v4s and uses duels as training exercises I don't really feel much of a reason to even bother, i don't like sitting around at the console, whatching the same screen for 30+ mins to maybe play 2 matches?

[The_B0G_]

I hate duels but I tried this out anyway. I really like the layout and everything, I can't wait for a dominion ranked tourney.

[bmason1000]

I'm very confused by the gain/loss of rank percentages. I went up 14% after a long win streak then went down 10% after one loss.

[xECS DESTROYER]

Running is still a problem. All they do is run, lock on, run again, and repeat. That way, they never face the consequences of the speed boost.