COD Advanced Warfare

[Nine]

---

I've never really liked this in games to be honest. The last thing I think a game should do is punish someone for exiting. Sometimes people lose connection, sometimes they just have other shit to do. Shit happens.

A prime example of why I hate it is with Fifa. The amount of times I've been winning a game on there only for it to disconnect from their servers. It's a fucking joke. It immediately slaps you with a loss, regardless of what the score is. That's just plain unfair. I can kind of understand if people are deliberately exiting the game before they lose (there should be punishment for that) but I don't see how it could be effectively implemented in cod. Sometimes you're stuck in a shit match. Sometimes you're against people who are way above your own skill level, sometimes people aren't even playing the game properly (this happens a lot with cod, too many 13 year olds 'trickshotting'). I don't like the idea of being punished simply for quitting a game that sucks.

Otherwise I think you're spot on with everything else.

---

Well the advantage of using host players you don't get stupid server side issues like other games. As nice as having dedicated servers seems on paper having a host player on small team game like CoD is just more reliable. Disconnecting happens but it pretty uncommon.

Perhaps a quit percentage would work, if you get over a certain level of quits you go to the 'Bad Sport' matchmaking. To me quitting mid game really impacts the whole experience. The number of times I've had to finish a game where only 1 or 2 players are left on the other team after 2-3 mins. It actually feels like a punishment playing as a team or with friends because as soon as you do well the game is empty. On Blops we had to split our groups into pairs of players and all play separately because otherwise you would spend the whole night doing nothing the pattern was always:

Search game, find lobby, watch for 10 mins while people join and leave matchmaking after looking at our stats, game eventually starts, play 2-3 mins, entire enemy team left game.

Or occasionally 1 guy would stay in causing us to hemorrhage SPM and fall off the leaderboards. We would play for 3-4 hours and only get 30-40 mins of game time.

As much as being out-skilled or stuck on a bad team sucks, thing is with CoD if you are being absolutely dominated the game will only take 5 mins and then you can find a new match. Do they still have Mercenary gametypes? With something like Mercenary TDM and OBJ the game can easily balance so 9/10 you won't have too large a skill gap from parties.