#Auto Match Rejoin after brief DC

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fast cloud
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Is it possible to implement a feature that allows players to rejoin sessions if they rejoin the queue (or a "current match in progress" type of message) within X amount of seconds when a backfill has not yet taken place?

I frequently get dropped from games, seemingly out of nowhere. 99% of the time my connection is restored by the time I hit the main menu and neither Windows nor any other programs notice this temporary loss of connection. This allows me to rejoin the queue within less than 10 seconds of being kicked from the game (if I'm not facing the 5 min penalty ofc.) For months, this happened every single day. I've not once been backfilled into the session I was dropped from, even if my spot wasn't filled yet.

I'm not sure if the game can tell whether I left voluntarily or not. The other players see the same message as if I legit quit the game crybaby style and I receive the same penalties just like I was a real life quitter. I understand the penalties being there to avoid people purposely DCing to avoid them, but I can't think of a good reason to not let someone rejoin a match in progress if they desire.

floral quest
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The problem with a rejoin is that some people do deliberately quit and putting them into the same match just causes griefing rather than allowing for a backfill. I do want to add some kind of 'grace period' to connections when in a game, so a connection loss for a split second doesn't immediately disconect from the game. I acknowledge that would be a very useful thing to have and would avoid most of the issue presented here. It's not an easy feature to implement though, I've investigated it a few times but it hasn't been as straightforward as I'd hoped.

dense pollen
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Don't make it automatic but add a rejoin button in addition to queue button if there has been no backfill. I think it should be possible for the server to check if someone loses connection or quits on purpose. So the griefers would have to disconnect and reconnect the cable to be able to manually rejoin. And we can always report griefing.

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And don't add the rejoin button if you quit on purpose.

chrome token
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PLEASE ERVEON

floral quest
dense pollen
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ok I was assuming the disconnect is caused by some timeout and quitting on purpose is some message to the server, but that depends of course on what library is used for the networking code

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If I remember correctly there was rejoin on rocket league

floral quest
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Or Alt + F4

dense pollen