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Missing the DC penalty already
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It's when we get posts like this one, and I read the comments, that I feel the need to suggest the list of "made up rules" that I follow:
1 - Play how you want to play and enjoy the game.
2 - Respect is akin to Newtons 3rd law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Ergo, if you show no respect, don't expect any.
3 - The Killers role is to kill, the Survivors is to survive... Both by any means necessary. Hate the game, not the player.
4 - When the gates are powered... Anything goes.
5 - You paid money for a multiplayer experience, and thus aren't entitled to win every match. Anyone who takes umbrage to this should stick to single-player games where-in you are entitled to win for the money you paid. Being salty because of a lost match is unbecoming, embarrassingly juvenile, and toxic to the communities reputation. We're all people pitting our skills, strategies, and knowledge against each-other. If you lose and have nothing good to say: Leave a "gg," calm down/lick your wounds, and move onto the next match.
6 - (For PC players anyways) Post game chat can be closed using the ">>" in the lower right of the chat box, and will remain closed until you either open it again or restart the game. No one deserves abuse, so if you find yourself frustrated over excessive endgame chat toxicity: Just close it, and continue enjoying the game in peace.
7 - This is a 4v1 Lobby and Match style Multiplayer game. When you queue up to play a match you are committing to seeing it through so that everyone can enjoy the game, and everyone else who queued up is depending on your commitment to the match in order to experience said enjoyment. The acceptable reasons for Intentionally Disconnecting from a match are as follows:
- A Game breaking bug rendering you incapable of playing a normal match.
- A Player(s) taking the game hostage/hacking/exploiting bugs or unintentional game mechanics/bullying or griefing you. (Record if possible, and Report them after leaving the match)
- Influences and situations outside of the game that make your disconnection unavoidable in order to deal with said circumstances.
Disconnecting from a match intentionally for any other reason is a practice in bad sportsmanship that Ruins the experience for all other players, Disconnecting over petty reasons doesn't do anything other than piss off everyone else, and makes you a worse player for it since you don't learn how to play any better by quitting.
Disconnecting is currently being punished for a good reason:Too many DC's from too many players results in leaving the community as a whole with a sour experience, and could eventually kill the game we love. If you are frustrated with how a match is going; Take it in stride as a learning experience, see it through to the end, take a break, and decide if you want to queue up for another match. We all bought this game in order to play it with others despite how each match goes, and the majority of the fun this game offers is in the variation of each individual match.Don't be a petty DC'er.
8 - For survivors, Rage quitting via suicide on the hook is your choice, but as with rule 7, all it does is ruin the experience for the rest of your team, and piss everyone off. While it's not currently being punished, it's still regarded by the community as a show of bad sportsmanship. If you don't at least try to play through until the end, regardless of the results, you are only hurting the experience for all other players both new and old, but it's with the new players where this hurts the game the most.
Bad matches happen, we understand, but that's no reason throw a game, especially over petty reasoning. Matches can turn around at the drop of a hat as long as everyone's still playing, and often do, but you won't experience that if you RQ on the hook, and by doing so you drastically affect the teams ability to pull off said "turn around". On top of this, it does nothing for your personal skill growth as a player, or your Blood Point/Experience gains, so there's not really any reason to do it other than petty ones.
9 - If it's a legal mechanic in the game, don't be afraid to use it. Half the fun is discovering new strategies, counters, and synergies using the tools the game provides, so no matter how effective or overpowered you feel they are, there's nothing wrong with using them to your advantage.
10 - Take the good with the bad in stride, rise to meet the challenge every new match presents, and overall... have fun.
Honestly, this is just a list of Common Sense spelled out for everyone to see. The inherent problem of "Made up rules" is that they're more of guidelines that nobody is obligated to follow. I know it won't change everyone, but I felt if I expressed the rules I follow when playing this game for all to see, maybe others might have them in mind when playing, whether they use them or not.
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Hold up... I can’t find threads about it. Either it’s too old, or it was a banwave that included HACKERS that downed and let everyone bleed out. My bad.
The point is, the type of playstyle is certainly reportable and beyond a doubt a warrant to DC. Even if someone doesn’t consider it holding the game hostage, it is a type of griefing if you have the choice not to do so imo.
It got extremely bad back before hooks didn’t respawn and everyone had sabo, got a little when they let hooks respawn, and stopped by the time the dedicated servers got released I believe.
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Equal amount.
I've been playing killer non-stop for the past 3 months and it changed nothing. (so far)
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If you’re trying to imply I’m an entitled survivor main for having common sense and understanding that no one wants to sit through their whole team bleeding out for 5 minutes, you have your own issues. I mainly play Killer (the killer being Nurse).
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I do and can agree with you, in fact i have to agree with Zoomies. Taking the game hostage is clearly defined as "only being able to leave the match by DCing" It's not up for interpretation, if you've been slugged you have to wait 4 minutes and then the game will end. You are basically making up what the rule is to fit your own narrative and filing false reports against someone not doing anything wrong all the while breaking the rules yourself based on your own self beneficial interpretation of the rules. I have found a post from a Dev on this sitewho has confirmed that only slugging and not using the hooks isn't very nice but it isn't bannable.
You are an entitled survivor who is making up his own rules which doesn't match the rules that the devs have set and are creating false reports against people breaking your made up rules.
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Lmao, okay. I’m an entitled survivor main, even though I hardly ever play survivor at all.
- It’s not false reporting for taking the game hostage, like you said, and for griefing by slugging all the survivors in the game and letting them bleed out. Those types of killers give the whole killer part of the community a bad reputation.
- I never reported anyone. Even if I did, it’s not a false report.
- Assuming that I’m bending the rules for my own self-benefit is not only the most stupid thing you could fo, but also completely false. Once again, I hardly ever play survivor.
- If the devs want to interpret their rules in a different way, that’s not my problem. All I know is that, according to the rules, messing with other player’s experienced is against the EULA. The devs can bend it all they like, but it’s literally a violation of the Code of Conduct unless they change the wording of it.
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Let's see here a list of things that the devs ignore because they are not reportable
What the devs considering griefing
And something that is bannable.
All there black & white crystal clear
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Game just there against a Rank 1 nurse, I'm a Rank 6 and my cousin is 4.playing with two randoms. Nurse blinks and downs me in the first 30 seconds. She then downs one of the other randoms they DC instantly and their friend does also. Nurse then gets my cousin. All in under 3 minutes. We just tried to kobe off the hook then died. Not fun for the killer or player. Bring back the penalty
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not to mention all the upcoming unpunished dc tech, dc penalties are necessary, no matter what.
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People like the DC penalty which honestly makes no sense. No one gets banned unless something happened outside of their control. If a player wants out of a match they'll just kill themselves on hook.
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Did reporting someone for rage quitting ever do anything?
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I've been DC'ing like crazy, just to raise awareness. 👍
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Yeah. Had a Nurse DC because she was not able to get anyone and a Legion just DCed because she missed a Frenzy Hit. There wasnt even one Gen done...
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Survivors: Remove the DC penalties they're banning people for no reason and there's better solutions!
These same survivors once the penalties are actually removed:
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if Survivor just RTD = Race to die if you don't like the match up or map simple. if killer just play toxic for a few they will get that gen rush going so the match ends quickly be ready to open a door for faster endings.. I say bring the dc penalty back.
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Same. I've had teammates non stop DC and a couple of killers too. It's so frustrating.
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You know, I'd be fine with just re-adding the ban only for leaving through the menu, no other DC counts. They can tell the button to report its user.
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It's a problem on PS4 for me. Red ranks. Both sides.
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only time I DC is when I know the games over I'm literally not DCing left and right constantly anytime I lose but you have to realize that the whole reason people DC majority of the time is because of OP addons/offerings lmao
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If the game was stable sure. Unfortunately it's not. Most of the DC's I've seen lately were clearly not intentional.
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Then people will physically pull the cord or kill the game via task manager. In fact people used to do this in the olden days to keep their BP, pips, and items.
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solution=SWF.
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Nah. Killers would dc. You ever yet curb stomped so badly by a swf and almost every swing is a miss because latency issues? At that youre just like ######### it and wanna leave.
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If nothing else, it takes them longer to get back in because they have to reload the game. Even better, if someone DC's, they can't rejoin until that game they DC'd from is over.
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If you’re gonna sandbag people who cleanse totems, expect a DC
If you’re gonna troll and try to bodyblock, or fast vault over and over or blow up gens to get another survivor attacked, expect a dc
BHVR has done nothing about troll players. At least this way you aren’t forced to sit there and take it.
Thats not even touching on the ever-increasing number of hackers in the game
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You're a known survivor main in this forums. It's obvious that you hate the penalty.
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I think people here are forgetting just how bad it was before the penalty, The whole reason it had to be implemented was because people would pick and choose their games. The second something went wrong or they heard a killer they didn't like they would DC and ruined the game for the 4 other players.
I don't understand, If you're not having fun and really want to leave that badly just walk to the killer and let them hook you, That's it. That's all you have to do. It takes about 1 minute.
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Doesn't make it right, you're basically just saying i'm DCing because i can't get an easy win. I seriously doubt anything is broken & OP, people would just rather quit then learn to counter it.
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When was the DC penalty thing removed? o.O
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I have to admit I started a game as killer the other night which began with two people just making noise notifications over and over and over, just banging in my headphones and I thought nah I don't want to play with these people. No DC penalty. The extreme salt in the endgame chat and the rampart back and forth abuse between the survivors tells me I made the right choice.
Outside of this kind of obnoxious playing with people you would never game with under any other circumstances scenario you can't really justify the DC.
The whole I DC when it's freddy, or doc etc etc is just I don't know how to play against these characters and will probably lose, its not fun if I lose so I'm going to just quit.
Hmm I have also had a lot of lag switching during the event, the survivors who seem to port away from you, who can't be hooked etc etc, I like having the option to leave a game like that without penalty. Sadly the lack of penalty does let the wah wah tantrum crowd off the hook. I probably won't be bringing to many mori's while there is no DC penalty.
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Why would you ever DC over Object 😂 To each their own... If I'm slugged, tunneled, camped, or Huntress is using iridescent Head or whatever I'll DC. I'd personally just have more fun waiting 5 minutes and taking a depip.
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Object on Midwich allows you to just run forward to win.
Killer won't really ever catch you except after a ridiculous amount of time.
Object is one of the most annoying and strong perks in the game, especially in SWF. Maybe you're like rank 15 tho.
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Lmao nah, you have zero rights in a video game. Just like I have the right to look your IP address up and make a house visit. Its my right. Dont like it, do something about it.
Oh yea, you cant.
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I don't understand why they don't suicide anyway in msot cases. the longer you play the more points you lose and time of yours you've wasted and even if you wanna go because of a bad spawn and start you're on your way to or already ont he hook anyways. There usually is no sound logic behind dcing with or without penalty or progress toward bans unless you're the killer and tired of swf or the current matchmaking woes since you can't ######### as the killer and some troll swf will deliberately delay once you afk over disconnecting
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They ragequit all the time. And make sure to stick around in the post-game chat to tell you how bad you are.
How incompetent do you have to be that script kiddie can exploit your system like this? What are they doing with their 500+ employees and 120+ million they made last year that they can't fix such a simple exploit?
You can apply that question to everything else the devs are incompetent at as well.
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What? You're comparing an illegal activity to leaving a video game match?
Is this some kind of threat?
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This ^. Bhvr need to do someting about camper/tunnelers. And I'm not talking about 4sec 1 time per match stun time
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