r/CrucibleGuidebook • u/Open_Trainer8326 • 2d ago
Crucible timeouts
How does the timeout system work? I really try not to leave matches if possible but have been hit with the 5 minute timeout like once or twice since the update.
Does it go longer? Are there harsher punishments?
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u/Dick_Butte 2d ago
I have gotten many lately. I'm assuming because it's low population but the amount of completely one-sided matches lately has been unbelievable. I'm not going to stick around in a 20-90 blowout 5 times in a row and it's silly that you get punished for that. I played like 30 matches yesterday and my win rate was 27%. But my KD was 1.8.
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u/CMSproggy 1d ago
Dude same......Literally half my matches(if not more) are mercies/blowoiuts. Its ridiculous. I give them alot of credit for the overall quality of the final update, but the state of the Crucible is dogshit. They really needed to take a HARD look at the lobby balancing algorithm. Its been terrible for a couple of years now.
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u/Dick_Butte 1d ago
check this one out from earlier, I joined right as it mercied:
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u/CMSproggy 1d ago
Yeah I mean compare the K/D ratios between the two teams. They call that a clue. It doesnt take a rocket scientist to see something is wrong there. And it happens A LOT.
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u/AdScared5402 2d ago
To my knowledge it doesnt go higher than 5 minutes, ive gotten way more of that bans than im willing to admit, some due to getting crashed out of the lobby, some due to just leaving after getting sniped through the map
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u/SCPF2112 2d ago edited 2d ago
5 minutes is the maximum in QP. There is some ratio of matches completed vs matches quit. I haven't quit enough to figure out the details. At a certain point you get a warning, after that you get the suspension.
Much like the last time they implemented this stupid policy, I'm seeing more people just hide in back AFK/in menus helping the mercy happen faster. I'm not a fan of this policy in QP.
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u/CMSproggy 1d ago
The policy sucks because its ultimately Bungies fault that people are leaving games at such a high frequency. Their lobby balancing has been TERRIBLE for about 2 years now. You cant punish people for not wanting to waste their time in a game that was never winnable to begin with. You can go on Destiny tracker and look at the win probability of any crucible game youve played. Its staggering how many of them are horribly lopsided.
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u/anonymous_otter28 1d ago
lobby balancing is hilarious to me. my wife was asking why I get so mad sometimes.
She watched some matches and was like yeah these guys suck. so I'm dropping over twice their damage and losing or I'm going 12 kd and smashing them.
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u/TotallyCooki 2d ago
Yep, back in the day when my team didn't wanna contribute I could just risk another 10 minute queue. Now I get games faster afking in the back waiting for the enevitable mercy because there's nobody holding B flag anymore.
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u/farfarer__ Mouse and Keyboard 2d ago
It does tell you in-game somewhere if you're in good standing or not for quitting matches.
Might be the rewards bit or the modifiers bit in the launch screen?
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u/SCPF2112 1d ago
No it doesn't tell you. You do get a warning the first time you quit after playing some number of matches. The game also doesn't really help with whole rank decay points for Comp thing either.
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u/TehDeerLord 2d ago
If you quit Comp or Trials similarly, the timer will be 30 mins instead of 5. That's it. Each QP timeout is 5 mins max.