Is there even an actual reason to disconnect?

To answer your question, yes it’s probably better to just afk as you avoid the double Depip and loss off all your points. Plus the killer has to waste time removing you from the game and the killer also gets points as well.

DC’ing is there as an option for example if the game was being held hostage so you’re not forced to stay there.

Unfortunately it gets a bit abused at times which is why the devs are planning on looking into it more in the future once dedicated servers come out.

in a situation like that, the killer could have used your body to stall the game. They just leave you injured and the moment they have 2 kills they down you and the ever so fun slugging strat commences. The killer can also hook you for BBQ, or gain other perk benefits however they so choose.

It would be more beneficial to your teammates if you had disconnected in a situation where the only other option would be to AFK.

Depends honestly. If somebody has to spontaneously go away and leave the pc for a longer time, just going afk would mean the pc would be running after that a long time, which is probably something many people wouldn't want.

A great thing would be if survivors that dc would be replaced with bots from there on. Doubt that will ever happen though.

I don't blame people for disconnecting if they get trapped in some weird way that EGC can't possibly resolve, and I've experienced two situations like that.

Firstly there was a now fixed bug/exploit where survivors could make the killer land on their head below certain dropdown-holes. For me it was the hole on the Pale Rose boat, I got trapped there as a killer that couldn't do anything about it and after being stuck there for 10 minutes (all other survivors had left, this was pre-EGC) I just made sure to record evidence and then quit as it's a waste of time.

Secondly I've had the bug where you get stuck inside a locker a few times. At that point you are basically taking the game hostage if you DON'T disconnect, as there's no way for you or the killer to get you out as far as I know.

My crappy internet is the only reason I dc

I only DC when a killer sneaks up behind me irl (or when all my roomies are on the internet and it just happens by accident)

I only DC when the game is so unbearably laggy that you keep glitching back and nothing works properly. Pallets, windows, etc. It's beyond irritating when you get downed and hooked right away when you can't do anything and the killer doesn't seem to miss a beat? It's like cheating

The only time I have pulled a dc was on the swamp map vs the Huntress. It was near the start of the round, so I was creeping around the edges trying to get a direct visual on any generators to fix rather than immediately rushing out into the open. This ended up being my downfall however as I soon get STUCK on a log. I don’t mean “whoops! Gotta go around this,” I mean my character had encountered some sort of weird surface collision with a log and I could not move from the spot even if I wanted to. My character model was vibrating like they were jacked up on an energy drink, and for a good while I tried every sort of method I could think of to get unstuck. Crouching, standing up, running, nothing was working. In the meantime my teammates had cleared 3 gens, and curiously enough there had been no apparent run ins with the killer from what I could see on everyone’s status. Feeling like a burdensome leech at this point for not contributing to the team effort. Stuck as I was, escape was not an option. While getting hit by the killer might have even gotten me unstuck to some extent, the generators were in turn getting activated farther and farther from where I was. If the killer was anywhere, it would be over in that direction. I also hadn’t heard the Huntresses Lullaby of a killer radius in quite a while either, so while I happily would have given myself up for the kill if that meant 1.) My teammates were granted potential reprieve from the killer while I was being dealt with and 2.) The killer could at least get some blood points off of me as they still didn’t seem to have downed anyone yet. While there definitely might have been some solution to all this without having to do a dc, there really did NOT seem to be any other way out of it.

At the point tally screen where I obviously raked in zero (lmao), I hopped into spectator mode so I could at least mentally cheer on the others who were still in the game. First thing I saw was everyone already at the exit gate with the Huntress close behind. Either two generators had been completed during my brief time in the results screen or I had just lost track of gen progress throughout my time literally stuck on the sidelines. Regardless, as the killer wasn’t bothering to attack anyone and nobody seemed in panic from the close proximity, I figured everything had worked out well for everyone.

**Note to any game mods that come across this: I didn’t report any bugs in-game as it seemed to truly be a freak accident accompanied by my moody wi-fi that day. I have never encountered any other problems on that map or while playing in general.

It's faster than trying to suicide, especially if the killer deliberately drags out the game with slugging.

Ex: Just had a game where a Huntress face camped 2 survivors to death because they went down too close to each other. Went for a save, and she grabbed the third, and one managed to suicide, while the other--unfortunately--got themselves off.

I stayed thinking I could maybe get the hatch, but it was just a waste of time in the end. I spent more time waiting for the match to be ended (she slugged one and refused to hook them) than it would've taken me to sit through the 3 minute penalty.

If you have something important IRL sure that's an excuse to DC

If you get sandbagged that's also another reason