The Infamous Loading Screen of Death

[Caladbolg]

as asked.

[PIEFROMHELL]

Who asked for this? o.O

[Caladbolg]

insomni and megablast

[PIEFROMHELL]

Ya I get these all the time, I've always wondered if it counted as a loss in a game. I never really cared to check.

[LordDragon]

Theory:

I think its a server destabilization caused by excessive typing during countdown.

[Weyoun]

As far as I know it only started happening with the pre-hots patch, and it effects other arcade games as well. Although I have never encountered it while laddering one of my 2v2 partners has. It has been reported to the blizzard bug report forums (although who knows if they noticed it as that place if massively filled with crud) I am hoping its something similar to the dependency loading bug from a while back and gets patched by blizzard soon.

[Tempest]

Info : i have never had the crash occur with an inactive chat.

I would like to suggest that when dropped at the loading screen it doesnt result in a loss xD
I would also like to see a drone spawn from being dropped at the loading screen somehow, 5v6 with no ai is harsh and very frequent.

[Siretu]

Dropping at the loading screen shouldn't result in a loss currently. It should be impossible. The code that adds a loss is in-game at the start. If the game loses contact with you in the loading screen, it shouldn't be able to modify your local files later on...

If it doesn't add an AI automatically for players who dropped in the loading screen, I cant detect it and I dont want to automatically fill teams up in case you want to play a game without that many AIs.

[Caladbolg]

the leaderboard does detect dropped players... they appear as -1

but is it possible to use that? no idea.

[Tempest]

my win loss is effected by a drop last i checked but im unsure ill look again.