I too yearn for the Quake 3 days.

They also seem to be following CCP censorship rules. Yay.

Edit: What are the downvotes for, its objectively correct.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/marvel-rivals-chinese-censorship-controversy

They haven't gone away. Plenty of Quake 3 Arena servers still up and running. If not Quake 3 Arena, then Xonotic is still pretty active with more modern visuals and pretty good graphics.

The article says that you do indeed get punished for leaving.

You don't know if it's a bot match as far as I understood

That and also penalizing you for disconnecting from Bot matches is wild

If you queue competitve you're guaranteed human players. And no Crossplay. Not the best solution, but yea...

But why? What's the motive behind not just queuing low ranking players with each other?

I'm conflicted with this. But it's a problem because the game is not clear about it and you can't choose, the game just put 4 people + 2 bots against 6 bots.

I "tried" to get a bot match yesterday after getting 2 loses in a row, playing with things that I normally don't play and not caring too much with the objective. Took 5 loses in a row to get 1 bot match.

For a person to get a lot of bot matches they need a lot of loses, at that point the person is probably better playing against bot to improve a little bit. But I think the game should suggest to the player to do that instead of forcing and hiding that they are playing against bots.

If I sign up for a match expecting to play against players and get matched with bots I would be upset.

Like most games have options like vs bots or vs players. I think it's a bit ridiculous to not have even that basic control over your game experience. Regardless if you just get crushed.

It’s a problem if you think you’re learning techniques for killing humans but in reality you’re learning tricks to kill AI. There is already a bot match option if people want to learn with no pressure.

It gives people a false sense of being good even if that day was simply not their day. Bot match alone is fine, and it's relaxing in a way, but hiding the fact that they're not fighting against real players is manipulative.

I think I would actually try the game out if you could purposefully select to play against bots.

Pokémon Unite does it sometimes after lose streaks. But not always! It's common in casual modes but much less common in ranked.

I figured it was to get some practice rather than a morale boost.

Like the article says, it does mess with stats but it is only for Quick Play rather than ranked though.

QP still puts you with similar skill level players. It just doesn't show you the algorithm like competitive. You won't be put with a diamond if you are bronze and vice-versa.