Lobby Dodging VS Disconnecting in match (would love a Dev response)

I don't know about other platforms but it doesn't work that way on PlayStation. There's no way to block a specific player from ever being in your lobby.

It wouldn't work. As an example, the Doctor is en vogue right now due to his re-work. Most Survivors are complaining about seeing him a lot. Or killers the one and down, like Bubba and Billy. Allowing Survivors the option to see their Killer before hand allows them to take the game hostage by forcing people to play only the Killers they're willing to play against, reducing the ability for Killers to find matches with the characters they like to play.

If you DC in a match, I've now wasted my Offering because you are leaving me either in a bad place with regard to finishing gens and escaping, or getting screwed out of BP and emblems. I actually don't think you can rank up as a Killer without 4 people in the match and all the hook events.... depipping is easy though.

If I lobby dodge you, nothing is lost but a bit of time. Even as a Survivor I will lobby dodge if I see someone who was a toxic butthole to the Killer in a previous match. I do not want to be involved in the end result of that because it isn't pretty and I end up getting ######### on because someone wants to be a douche. They are usually the one who DCs too, so two birds with one penalty eh?

Overall, I'd rather have a Killer dodge a lobby than deal with a DC mid-match from either side. A frustrated and/or pissy Killer is not fun to play against when they just camp everyone due to items or previous encounters. I'll take the dodge and just chill. That's what YouTube, DbD Forums, and clicker games are for. Alt+Tab = love.

Blocking their profile doesn't just prevent them from contacting you, it seeds them out of online interactions as a whole. That includes in-game interaction.

You go to their profile and select block profile from the options menu. It's really not that hard to understand.

Actually, mmain is exactly on the mark. DCing affects an in-progress game, which can drasty alter it's outcome on both sides. Lobby dodging does not. Sure it sucks to have to wait longer, but it's still better then having your teammates just up and abandon you because they arbitrarily decided it's no longer worth their time, or wasting time chasing a Survivor, only to have them DC because they realize they can't escape and automatically claim you're Tunneling.

Spine Chill increases repair, heal, and sabo speed while also hard countering the thing that makes Ghostface strong in the first place (and providing you of a heads up for all killers). This isn't useful?

Okay then. haha

No chain yanking. Promise. Blocking someone's profile on console prevents them from appearing in online play modes for the majority of titles. I'm sure there may be some exceptions (nothing is perfect) but it's kind of like Facebook. The matchmaking pulls from PlayStation Networks online resources, since it doesn't have it's own internal save database. It relies on the same pathways, so blocking a profile from all interactions also extends to encountering them in gameplay, since there can't be any guarantees that in-game communication doesn't exist. It's ment to be a protection against harassment. Of course, if a game has dedicated server-sided saves, it could be possible to get past that by using a games internal communications database, which I assume is why, as Lightning just pointed out to me, profile blocking doesn't work on PC, or so I would assume.

No it does not, you're just luckily not running into people you have blocked. However blocking someone on PlayStation is strictly so they can't send you messages or add you as a friend, it has nothing to do whatsoever with the matchmaker.

@mmain Unfortunately not true, you will still be mm with blocked people.

@Cable2486 Interesting because Blizzard revealed that Sony didn't allow them to access your blocked list so they had to create their own in-game "Avoid Player" option to do that. That was ultimately removed bc ppl were blocking players they thought were too good and it made a mess of the mm. So you have proof that Behaviour is accessing our blocked list and filtering the mm accordingly? Ime I still get blocked players in my games.

I know people run some crazy setups sometimes but realistically I'd say that's not a majority of players. That being said, I wish people didn't have the mentality that if they don't like a certain thing, that means they dodge. It just makes me a little sad because I don't want to bring in like a brown toolbox or something, or a broken key just to try out some of the addon combos, and have the killer think I'm bringing in some OP toolbox or purple key to try to get EZPZ wins or something.

So actually killers are subject to genrush and Survivor to be camped and Tunneled. Why killer can dodge lobby and us survivors cant see killer's name (Id steam not the killer's char) d/c penalty is fine but i want to see who i play with (because issue with some killers) or remove d/c penalty

DEV Answer plz

You know.. if half the people that are complaining about the queue times when the killer lobby dodges would go play some killer games, we wouldn't have an issue with queue times.

Punishing killers for lobby dodging wouldn't solve anything.

If players had to accept every lobby with 3+ toolboxes, even less of them would play killer (hello, longer survivor queues!) and those killers who would continue to play would resort to tunneling, moris etc.

And what if 4 gens pop in those 2 minutes? You can't fool us with your "git good" attitude. Matches need to be longer, so more chases can happen. Why, as a killer, do I have play hit and run every single match to stand a chance against THE SURVIVORS?