Why is my team always a person short?

(heavyRaven) #1

It’s happened way too many times now, 10+ games easily where i’ve had to play the entire game 6v7 or 5v6… Does this happen to anyone else? To clarify, I use quickjoin.

(Rhyno) #2

If teams are both even and there is room to join the server, any new players will join Attacking by default.

(DanielFluffy) #3

That’s because it’s usually harder to attack then it is to defend. So it’s to try to balance it out

(heavyRaven) #4

[quote=“Rhyno;31695”]If teams are both even and there is room to join the server, any new players will join Attacking by default. [/quote] but my point was the game will have 1 person short, (i.e 13/14, 15/16 ) and it will just stay that way all game, with one team having -1 person, and that’s pretty huge. You’d think someone would join in by matchmaking after at least 5 minutes, let alone a 12 minute game.

(Backuplight) #5

I feel like the ghosting issue is still there, I’ve been in servers where one side has been a person down for multiple games in a row, like it could never quite fill the last gap.

(Ghosthree3) #6

Could be the problem where the server is reported as full when it’s not, and no one can join.

Haven’t seen that or the bug where there appears to be players in the server and there’s none for a while though.

(Aazhyd) #7

Every time I try to join a game with one free spot, it says server is full. It does that ALWAYS. Which is the main reason I stopped doing that and just used Quickmatch.

(Ghosthree3) #8

Yeah that sounds like the issue I mentioned above where the browser just lies.

(heavyRaven) #9

Another morning of DB, I lost about 2 games due to being down players :confused:

(Szakalot) #10

yes very annoying esp. on small 6v6 servers, with multiple ghost slots : played 4v5 for two stopwatch rounds in a row, no fun. 7v8 obj can handle it, game is a clustershag anyways; but a stopwatch game with small amount of players will not work.

(Serious Sam) #11

This doesn’t happen as often in competitive, just sayin.

(Shackahn) #12

The ghosting is definitely still an issue, I play with another person regularly and we have problems joining servers that definitely have space but report as being full. The other one is mentioned above, server shows there being a free slow but when you join it says its full.

This leads to many games which are one sided, it makes a big difference having an extra player. People persevere expecting a player to join the server, this can go on for 3 or 4 rounds until eventually everyone leaves.

(Ghosthree3) #13

Yeah can confirm, happened to me earlier about 20 times. Also there’s like 100 servers with ‘1’ person in them, that are actually empty.

(Amerika) #14

Yeah, the ghost player issue has been somewhat fixed but this particular issue has not. And it was present before the servers went crazy with the ghost players (the 10-14 servers that had 0 people on them).