Guild Wars 2

I mean things like 5v4 games in hotjoin. I appreciate that there’s an autobalance option to balance 5v3 games, but 5v4 games are still extremely imbalanced in favour of the team with five players. At the moment it’s clear that there are other players playing, but not joining the game – for whatever reason, if the 5v4 game becomes 5v5, very quickly afterwards it becomes 6v5 too. Which doesn’t fix the problem.

I suggest queues be made such that solo queueing players balance out 5v4 or other similarly imbalanced games first before being placed in a new one, and a 5v5 game be imbalanced by another player only if there’s no other game available.

If you think that hotjoin player imbalance is bad, go play Arena.

I agree with you Jeydra, and currently I just start queueing for solo queue at the same time. The more people that just solo queue to try and avoid imbalanced hotjoin teams, the less waiting time on queues. Otherwise, you might as well switch to a build that can excel in imbalanced situations.