Add a Countdown Timer When Unpausing

(KangaJoo) #1

I know a lot of people won’t be familiar with this but if an admin pauses a match, for example during a tournament when a player loses their connection, and then resumes the match, the game starts back up straight away with no countdown or anything. This can lead to some pretty frustrating/funny moments where one player wasn’t quite ready for the game to be unpaused while the other was. Easy way to fix this issue is to add a short, like 5-10 seconds, countdown timer for when the server admin unpauses the match.

(Pecka) #2

Yep! And make the pause working for everyone in competitive.

(Ardez1) #3

This is definitely a good suggestion, but if this is something you experienced in a tournament the Admin is supposed to give warning before unpause so all players are ready. I would see if you admin screwed up and let DBNation or whichever cup you were in know.

EDIT: I should note however that it should not allow all players to unpause. You need to be signed in as an admin to pause the match and that is how it should be. Otherwise you may see abuse.

(KangaJoo) #4

Oh don’t get me wrong the admins have always given proper warning but the timing is never quite perfect if you know what I mean. Same with when we’re doing it in scrims. It would just be a lot more convenient if the timer was built into the game.

(XavienX) #5

Definitely a great idea, kinda like a host migration in CoD where the countdown takes place when match is resuming.

(Kirel) #6

I recently admined for the Invite Cup #1 hosted from DBN.

It’s protocol to ask both teams if they are ready to resume the match, and that the admin is encouraged to do a countdown to make sure the loss of momentum is minimized. However, yeah it feels a bit unnatural for a completely different person to countdown when to unpause.

If the game decided when to resume the game, I feel like players would feel more confident after the downtime.

(KangaJoo) #7

[quote=“Kirel;74258”]I recently admined for the Invite Cup #1 hosted from DBN.

It’s protocol to ask both teams if they are ready to resume the match, and that the admin is encouraged to do a countdown to make sure the loss of momentum is minimized. However, yeah it feels a bit unnatural for a completely different person to countdown when to unpause.

If the game decided when to resume the game, I feel like players would feel more confident after the downtime.[/quote]

Exactly. I know the admins do the best they can but it’s not quite the same as having it built into the game.