Hiho AwesomeDevs,

As we know the XBLA rankings are screwed at the moment so it doesn't matter much now, but earlier I joined a match literally as my base was exploding... and guess what, it chose to include this match (not the other 200+ I've won over the weekend) in my rankings lmao - genius xD

Anyway, I guess I'm requesting that once the ranking system is fixed, could you guys potentially look into a way around nasty situations like that? Say I spend 2 weeks hammering awesomenauts to get to rank 1, but the guy behind me is right on my tail... I log in and dive straight into a loss game before my rocket has even hit the ground - I think that's what we call a 'controller vs television screen' moment lol.

I realise at present such a thing may not exactly be the highest of priorities to consider... but its a shortfall I noticed so I thought it worth mentioning :3

Thanks for reading,
Liam

I would love a option to have a choice to join a game in progress or make a new lobby to get a fresh new game. I really don't like joining a game I can not turn around at all. I think a good way to solve this (at least until we get a lobby system) is to make people not get a lost unless they are in the game for 8-10 minutes.

This!

How about two sorta 'modes' of online play. A 'dive right in' mode where you aren't ranked and just join whatever games are about as it currently works, and a ranked mode where you join a new lobby and the game only starts when there are 6 people locked in?

This way you'd have the online carnage where people can test builds and the riff raff can kick each others heads in all day long, as well as accommodating the sector of your players that want to play competitively... I quite like that idea actually.

Liam

I totally agree to this, having more option for joining games would be nice.

Another thing that could help and be fairly simple would be to let us a little wait time before a game start/during the character select screen so the spots have time to fill up with players instead of bots. It would also leave time for ppl to think and talk about strategy and such. I'm sure most of us wouldnt mind waiting 2-3minute for a full game instead of ppl joining into half lost games.

Maybe make it so you need atleast 5-10minutes into the game before a win/loss counts toward your ranking would be nice too

Yep it's pretty dumb, those games decide to count but not the twenty other ones you play without having any problems.

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Add "Awesomenauts FL" for easy access to other Awesomenaut players.

So if I jump into a game and we are getting crushed about to lose my options are:

1.) Leave and get no XP on my next victory.

2.) Stay and take the loss.


Not the best options in the world but I care more about the replay value and actual fun of the game than the leader boards, because I can honestly say I'll never put in the time needed to be #1 on any leader board ever so I'm not too worried about it.

Right now my ranking refuses to budge at all, regardless of my wins and losses I appear to be permanently stuck at 50% Wins and 1005 rating. At least the losing matches I join don't seem to be counting either.

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Maybe it can be decided that a minimum amount of time has to be spent in a game before it is considered for an effect on your ranking?

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I had this happen 3 games in a row last night...

I joined the first game as the base was being destroyed and took a loss pretty much right as my rocket touched down.

Game 2 I was put into a game with all of my turrets already destroyed and all of theirs intact. I only had a short time before I had to go so I quit this game as soon as it loaded.

Game 3 I joined right as the base was destroyed...

Finally I joined a 4th game right as it started.

Would be very nice to have the option to choose to only join games that are being created or to join games that have been active for only a few minutes.

the game will only make a new lobby if there are no games you can join.
thats how it works in COD
thats how it works in any drop in and out game.

there's no changing that unless you change it fully,
you cant have both.....