I’d like to take a moment to discuss the current voting system in place in Dirty bomb. First of all, why does voting (F1 or F2) also affect the merc I spawn as? Why does hitting those keys while out of the spawn screen do ANYTHING for that matter? It’s annoying as balls, to say the least, and I’m assuming it isn’t intended. If it is I don’t understand why, but fair game I guess.
Second. ‘‘There is currently another vote in progress’’ when there is clearly no other vote in progress. This has been a thing for a while now, and while I only see it rarely as of late, it should still go. Our team once called a vote before the match started during warmup, and when the warmup screen finished the vote vanished. It was however impossible to call votes for the entire match after that. I understand you can’t have 12 votes going at once, or even 2 for that matter, but the game sometimes doesn’t seem to pick up that a vote’s ended.
Third. 99.9999% of the time voting to shuffle still does absolutelly nothing. It’s like the game looks over the people on each team, decides that one is favoured by a lot and moves the top 3 players from that side to the other. Resulting in literally the same match, except from the other side.
I understand we’re still in beta (though the beta’s been longer than most FPS life cycles), and casual matchmaking will probs fix some of this, but even after so many changes the voting system is still virtually useless.
I do however applaud the changes to the shuffle and restart map votes (time limit for restart and disable on shuffle in the last 4 minutes, nice one!) aswell as the warning pre shuffle and respawn of both teams.
Keep up the good work. Rant over 