zenith latch
I feel as if the cooldown timer escalation is way to high, i goes from 30 min, the first time, to 12 hours the second time. There should be atleast a middle ground, or perhaps something like, 30 min, 1 hour, 2 hour, 4 hour, etc. The fact that if your game or steam glitches out which it often does, and it happens to you more than once in what i think is a 10 day period, you don't get to play for the entire day. I understand that taking up people time and dodging is an issue, but to punish the player that doesn't purposefully dodge, is in my opinion not right. There is also no other way to circumvent this, in a fast and easy way.
A good way to remedy this could be many things, but what I suggest is that the cooldown doesn't jump from 30min. to instantly 12 hours. And also, that if you have a feature on the website that informs players of CS2 Game updates, make sure that it's reliable, so not to create a false sense of security. Has happened to me twice now where i go to the website and check if there is a blue bar with the information that CS2 has updated. And when I check there is no bar, I start to queue and sure enough, there is an update.
Sure I can always check in steam, but then what is the point of having a warning message that is supposed to forewarn people of an update.
Also, an improvement that could be made is that when there is an update, the time to join could increase by some time, I think adding one more minute to the time you have to join would be enough. It doesn't have to be during CS2 updates, you could just add one minute to the timer when joining. I also understand that most people, including me, appreciate the shorter time to join, but in some cases, it punishes the player for no reason other than his equipment, steam servers or game being faulty.
PS: Pls bring back livechat. 💯 