With the merge, there’s still an issue with finding enough players per team, as some people only play one nation. If there was a bonus (like 25% more) towards silver and XP gain for choosing to queue as all nations, people might be more willing to do so, thus filling all sides semi-equally.
4-stacks will jump at this opportunity and balance will flip
or
this will be tier 3 deserting but from even more matches, as there is no punishment for deserting (and there should not be). i guess that’s why this isn’t yet in game even though it was announced with merge devblogs
When a match with full of players (without AI), the match become toxic. Either you are slaughtered by them, or they are slaughtered by you.
Can’t say it is fun.
The condition to have a deserter punishment is the game is playable. solo match against a squad of 4 or got into a train mode or some very disliked map or 1v7 are not consider as playable