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Second accounts

Leftsh03
Leftsh03 Member Posts: 16

Are second accounts banable? Say I want to get better as a killer but it's impossible to do so at my current rank, besides being awful are 2nd accounts punishable?

Comments

  • Liruliniel
    Liruliniel Member Posts: 3,047

    A lot of streamers open admit to having multiple accounts so they can play at multiple ranks and have better que times. You should be fine.

  • Leftsh03
    Leftsh03 Member Posts: 16

    Thanks for the replies guys

  • DwightOP
    DwightOP Member Posts: 2,328

    Smurfing is something done in EVERY pvp game. The more awful the high rank gameplay is the more likely is it that people create smurf accounts. I did it myself in apex legends. I started versing the sweatiest people with multiple thousands of hours while I just had maybe 20 hrs of experience. So I crested smurf accounts to play against noobs like myself till to the point I had enough experience to play against the sweatballs.

    It's normal and shouldn't be bannable.

  • Gay Myers (Luzi)
    Gay Myers (Luzi) Member Posts: 4,427

    It's a feature by Steam through family sharing and not bannable on our end.

  • Waffleyumboy
    Waffleyumboy Member Posts: 7,318

    I think second accounts are better used so your queue times as survivor are more bearable. At night, they start reaching 10 minutes for me at rank 1 so I just swap over to my Rank 18 account where queues are instant.

  • Leftsh03
    Leftsh03 Member Posts: 16

    Ps4 has instant killer queues even at rank 8

  • Leftsh03
    Leftsh03 Member Posts: 16

    Wish they'd fix the ranking system tho. Like some playing among different colors but not yellow vs. Red

  • BunnyTheHutt
    BunnyTheHutt Member Posts: 1,773

    Nope. it's kinda scummy since you'll be fighting people with little too no game sense, but it's not bannable. Only exception is if you are avoiding a ban/penalty, but otherwise you can have 20 accounts and not be banned.

  • PigMainClaudette
    PigMainClaudette Member Posts: 3,842

    Yeah, I don't see why they would be bannable. If people can leave the game for 6 months and have fully upgraded level 3 meta builds, then me making a second account so my rank 20 mates never verse MY killers is kind of reasonable. And I even specifically go with underpowered perks because of it.