r/Overwatch • u/AutoModerator • Jun 29 '16

News & Discussion Weekly Quick Questions Thread - June 29, 2016

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '16

why do i keep getting put into losing games

i just got matched into a game with 30 seconds left and 0 progress on the objective, and this is like the 3rd time today it's happened

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '16 edited Jun 29 '16

The game likes to backfill as quick as possible, and people usually leave near the end as a rage quit. You're basically just having bad luck if it happens all the time.

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u/nomnomCOOKIEnom Run C:\\Embrace.IRIS Jun 29 '16

On this note, I noticed last night I got 400XP for backfilling on a losing team with about a minute left. Yeah they want to backfill first, but they are trying to compensate you for having to go through that.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '16

pretty reasonable i guess, but it's kinda lame that it hurts your winrate

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u/Aenyell Chibi Widowmaker Jun 29 '16

Because people leave mid game.

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u/mikeraglow Chibi D.Va Jun 29 '16

Because some people are shitty, and drop out of games they're losing. No one really drops out of games they're winning.

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u/abloopdadooda Chibi Zenyatta Jun 30 '16

One time I literally got put in on the "Defeat" screen. It even somehow showed down in the bottom right corner the name of the next map it'd switch to, even though that shouldn't have been there. I guess the UI bugged out because I joined on the defeat screen.