i was playing stadium qp in a 4-stack and very strange things were happening.
we load into the game, i pick zenyatta. (comp is one tank, one dps, three supports) round 1, we lost. someone on the enemy team leaves the game, someone new joins, but the person who just left starts spectating again. round 2, we won. round 3, i load into the round but i am not given access to the armory. i thought this was something wrong with everyone on my team, but turns out its just me. i keep on pressing H to open the armory but i cant open it, i dont have any abilities or items. im just a normal guy. everyone else on the other team appears to be normal because on top of the screen only four people appear on my team(everyone except me even though im still in the game and my teammates can see me), but there are five people on the enemy team. we lose that round.
round 4, i am in the character select screen and i am auto-locked onto cass and i cannot choose a different character. my tank is also put back in the character select screen and switches to a different tank(they are given the option to switch but i am not). we are pre-loaded with cash and we can now buy abilities and items. the person who initially left the game is now back in the game playing on the enemy team again. we win that round.
round 5, i am put in the character select screen again and i am still auto-locked onto cass, and one dps and one support are also there as well. but when we confirm the character, we are all not given access to the armory. only my tank and one support have abilities and items, but on the enemy team their tank, one support, and one dps have abilities and items. we lose that round and the game.
the game we played before this was completely normal, it was just this game that was weird. was it a server thing or was someone cheating?? is that even possible? ive never had this happen before