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Should AFKing carry a bigger punishment?

Jay_K
Jay_K Member Posts: 473
in General Discussions

So ive seen a lot of killers and survivors simply afk the whole match recently.

When i play killer if a survivor AFK's it ruins the entire game because its effectivly a 3v1 at that point and makes it a boring game for myself as the killer and of course makes the game extreamly difficult for the survivor if the killer isnt going to go easy on you.

As for killers when they AFK it just makes for an extreamly boring game for survivors, wasted offerings and pointless game.

Should behaviour introduce punishments for survivors and killers who AFK?

Now let me clarify. I'm not talking a minute or so of AFK because there will always be times when teh door bell goes and u gotta run to grab it but im talking about those matches where the killer or survivor is AFK the entire match.

I think heavy time outs should be in place if its identifyable by the system or even maybe temp bans if your reported (with evidence) multiple times.

As someone who records all my gameplay I could submit many many reports of both survivors and killers afking ruining the game.

Let me know what you think about this.

Comments

  • Maelstrom808
    Maelstrom808 Member Posts: 685

    I've said before, once you get your third crow (and equivalent time for killer) it should give you another 30 sec then DC you and apply the appropriate penalty. In addition, make it more difficult to avoid crows (close the loop holes on item dropping and musical lockers) as well as some sort of check for killers with a script or macro for M1ing or power activation every few seconds.

  • Saiph
    Saiph Member Posts: 401

    When done for farming shards/xp, it should be punished very harshly, especially when it's the killer who does it, they waste the time and electricity of 4 other persons, just so they can get a negligible amount of shard. They might also skew killrates/MMR at low level since they represent a huge fraction of games there.

    BHVR is fighting hard on cheaters but it's hard to believe them when they can't even detect people who use a basic AHK bot that clicks "Ready" repeatedly. There are people with 336 hours played / last 2 weeks and their profile full of "AFK bot" comment, I don't know how they aren't getting banned after literal YEARS.

    I have met a cheater once in the last 3 months. Meanwhile the farming bots I get every 1-2 weeks (note: this also shows me that MMR doesn't work..), and I regularly see streamers get them.