Reconnection Feature (Remember Your Party)

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Warframe needs to allow players to rejoin a game they were already connected to, in case of disconnection.

 

It's a simple feature in some games. It allows players who are already partied together to stay together. TF2's MvM mode added this feature after it launched, to much praise.

 

Without knowing for sure, I don't think this is hard to implement. Warframe's servers just remember who is partied together (very small amount of data) if it doesn't already know, and if someone is disconnected during a game, even after the objective has been completed (or in cases of Defense, after wave 1 has started), any disconnected players may rejoin the game they were in.

 

This doesn't require any new HUD or interface at all. Just like how TF2 does it, and as a reminder, TF2's Mann Up mode allows this too and it's based on real money sales (Mann Up tickets), so it should be secure to implement. No special interface is needed; you just try to join someone from the same game that is still in progress, and WF's servers know you were partied with them and lets you back in. The WF server should remember your loadout too, so if you attempt to reconnect with anything but the same gear, you are given an error (specific or otherwise).