Need option "Restore window when match found" on PC

vikvlg
vikvlg Member Posts: 134
in Feedback and Suggestions

Please add option for automatically popup games window to foreground when match found (or if there's an error).

There is huge problem with looking match for killer in 2x8, it takes 20-30 minutes (and up to 5-10 minutes in normal mode). Watching on killer's animation isn't very interesting, so people can switches to another window and do other things while match finding.
After enter to lobby games icon blinks on taskbar — that's nice bonus but in full-screen mode (YouTube or video player), the blinking isn't visible.

PS. In current 2x8 "estimated queue time" is broken. If the timer shows 28 minutes, match can be found in 20 minutes. And while in previous events i could turn on timer on my smartphone and it would notify me when match should be found (its worked excellent), this event it doesn’t work. There were many times that I set the timer in advance, but when I switch to game, there are already 3-5 generators left.

Comments

  • Temak
    Temak Member Posts: 71

    In GNOME DE there might be a notification that in a window of some app has changes or whatever. But not always.

  • vikvlg
    vikvlg Member Posts: 134
    https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/4056463#Comment_4056463

    Thanks for idea. I have KDE Plasma and I decided to test it out. It turns out I can write KWin script that will maximize game window if it's blinking. I'm still testing it but I think it would be a good option.

  • Wezqu
    Wezqu Member Posts: 1,239
    edited February 27

    Maybe don't watch stuff on full screen or pay attention to the time you need to wait or put your phone to alert you few minutes before the queue time is over. There is tons of ways to you to make alerts but you claim its the games job to do so for you.

  • vikvlg
    vikvlg Member Posts: 134
    https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/4060795#Comment_4060795

    Maybe… Maybe…

    Maybe you should read more carefully? And not write about phone alarm, since I wrote about that earlier.

    Maybe some people want to spend their waiting time more comfortably than you? Watch Twitch/YouTube/video player in full screen and not have to switch every minute to game.

    Maybe I'm writing about this because I've seen this feature in other games? For example, in StarCraft 2, where Blizzard care about players, don't make them stare at the waiting screen, and conveniently notify them when match found.

    PS. And if you'd read my second message, you would have learned that I've found a pretty good solution for myself. Nevertheless I think it's useful feature that can be implemented with literally a couple of lines of code.

    PPS. If consider number of AFK-killers during 2x8, then we can assume that this is fairly common problem among different players.