Forfeiting in Battlegrounds

Quick question: If someone forfeits in Battleground, does it still count towards „completion“ of a match?

I have a surprising amount of opponents forfeiting on me, and I wonder why they won‘t simply do the match, maybe they would win? And even if not, they would at least get points for the solo objectives…

Unless, of course, a forfeited match still counts as completed…

Comments

Pikolu

A forfeited match doesn't count as a completed match for the person who forfeits.

GroundedWisdom

No it doesn't count. What's most likely happening is they're Tanking to farm Points for the Milestones, and best of luck to them. Kabam is taking action on it this Season.

G-Hun-Gear

Thanks…

Still strange, it‘s typically the weaker accounts that I am matched against… It‘s never the beefy ones that end up destroying me… unfortunately…

Vegeta9001

I struggle to see how they're going to take action against it meaningfully. Unless they announce some BG only suspensions or strip milestones. I can't see game wide suspensions for forfeiting games. Although I haven't read up on it and haven't been hugely active lately so could be way off base.

Yukzii_II

Bruh I’ve been forfetting just because it leaves the match quicker after a loss, I dont wanna sit there for 20 seconds at the end of round 3 to let it settle in how I’ve lost. I would rather get into a match quicker.

MrSakuragi

You gain no points when you do that. A waste if you’ve used elder marks.

GroundedWisdom

Forfeiting in and of itself isn't the issue. Just like opening a Side Quest isn't an issue.
Spamming a bugged Side Quest and exploiting it is. Just like using the Forfeit to manipulate the Matches for Solo Milestones is exploitative.
The issue isn't using Forfeit. It's the Players that are using it to camp for Points. Kabam mentioned that they will be monitoring it and possible bans are up for grabs.

ItsClobberinTime

I'm pretty sure they'll be able to easily tell if someone is forfeiting because something came up, they just didn't feel like doing that match etc or someone is forfeiting to farm points. Regardless of how they're doing it though, the people saying these are just empty threats are in for a rude awakening lol can't wait to see the complaints after season ends.

Pikolu

Can't wait for the 40 threads, like the ones we saw of people complaining all their gold, glory, and loyalty were taken away, to pop up after that wave goes through 😎

JT_Supreme

I’ve played a few that are trying to be sneaky, lose on purpose but try to not make it look completely suspicious, wonder how that would be caught

Yukzii_II

Bruh I’ve done that so many times 😭 but I win more than I lose so kinda makes up for it? Still lost points though

Armageddøn

I've been seeing guys who just join the match and leave their screen on, they lose but also waste a lot of time. Idk how that behaviour will be caught.

Rudolph_Raindeer

I think it is all good to forfeit, since we use different strategies, however, if Kabam does not want us to forfeit a match, why dont they just remove the option to do so? 🤨

Magrailothos

Or, they forfeit because they're a smaller roster that's been accelerated into Platinum 1-2, and they're facing an account hugely stronger.

Hopefully Kabam develops an algorithm that recognises that that's an appropriate use of the forfeit option.

WinterFields

There's a big difference in forfeiting a match on a rare occasion because of genuine circumstances versus doing it repeatedly to try to game the matchmaking system. I've had to forfeit before because something in real life happened that required immediate attention. Others have forfeited to try to find easier matches

MrSakuragi

I’ve encountered it as well. It should be pretty easy for Kabam to look at the people who constantly have 10 second matches and always lose without throwing a punch, defender at 100%. Only when using energy as well.

Ayden_noah1

I'm assuming if you forfeit 50% of your matches, they can see a pattern. I can't see how they can tell if someone is losing on purpose if they actually finish the match. I have gone on long losing streaks but trying to win so am I going to look suspicious cause my skill level average to below average. I would be upset if they think I'm losing on purpose due to a losing streak.

apextron

I tell you what I'm sitting back reading learning a lot 🤔😁. I never forfeited a match don't ever know how the button looks.I dont do BG as much as I like cause you have to commit and invest the time. Im here cause it are those times where something came up and your attention is forfeited. Right.

MrSakuragi

If you lose every match you play with energy, a pattern may emerge. If you never play with elder marks when you have 2 wins in plat2 but always do when you have 0 wins in plat2, a pattern may emerge.

ItsClobberinTime

If they die without throwing a single punch I think it'll be pretty obvious, if they actually do some of the fight but still lose on purpose then yeah I don't know how they'll be able to catch the people doing it unless they actually watch the whole fight. If some folks are doing that thought it's fine, imagine how time consuming that must be lol at that point you're better off just playing normally and losing matches here and there (not on purpose of course)

ItsClobberinTime

Or the ones about not getting
rank rewards after season ends, I'm 100% they're not going to give them rank rewards either.

MAESTROSAD

In the end, people who give up on the game don't hurt anyone, I often give up when I get a big sequence of players who are absurdly stronger than me.

MAESTROSAD

Kabam should take a better look at the matchmaking mechanism to make it fair for everyone, both beginners and average players, and veterans too

BringPopcorn

Who said competitions were fair?

Graves_3

Have you forgotten how kabam handled the mythic crystals issue?

MAESTROSAD

The truth is that this new hut system will be useful for celestial levels where players go on a huge losing streak using energy and then win again using elder marks.

MAESTROSAD

Now if you just give up for the sake of giving up, for example every 10 matches you give up two, that won't change anything because it won't be affecting anyone directly.

MAESTROSAD

That's exactly why the quit button exists, kabam won't ban anyone who does this normally, it will do this to anyone who gives up on 50 matches in a row, as already happens

GroundedWisdom

They removed the Rewards. In some cases, they couldn't round off Shards so they replaced Crystals. That was not an excuse to cheat.

ItsClobberinTime

I have not, however I also haven't forgotten how they handled bots in arena and using alt accounts for free points in BGs, have you? Cause as far as I know all the people who engaged in this type of behavior were banned without exceptions. So yeah, while Kabam has indeed been screwing up pretty bad with the bugs and exploits, when it comes to cheating, it's a different story.