constant DCs

This is one of the funniest things, makes absolutely no sense. I think 99.9% of DCs are BS, but for early match ones I can at least see the thought process.

DCing as you are hooked for the 3rd time is just senseless. Yeah, you still lost, you're still dead, the killer still beat you, AND now you have absolutely nothing to show for your last 10 minutes (not including the time you waited in queue before the match), and now you have a penalty.

At least it doesn't screw your teammates like other DCs, I guess.

I rarely use Bubba, but I often get a DC or two as soon as they hear the chainsaw. But it can be any killer; I had someone DC against me while using Trapper last night.

Reality is that some people will DC as soon as they realize their expectation for match isn't going to be met, for whatever reason.

It's selfish and pathetic, but it is what it is, and will continue to happen until they dial up the penalty.

The one that gets me most is *Downed but not been hooked once yet*

disconnects

Like, seriously what is all that about?

I think the first DC should remain at 5 min, because anything can happen.

But after the first the penalty, the subsequent penalties should increase sharply. Like 5 min for the first, 60 minutes for the second, 24h for the 3rd.

For habitual offenders (people who DC multiple times per play session consistently), longer and ultimately permanent bans should be on the table.

If you get that frustrated, finish your match and stop playing the game for the day, don't DC. You're just screwing your teammates over. Camping and tunneling aren't going anywhere, unfortunately. There just aren't good viable solutions to prevent them.

And really, you're going to get people who are going to DC whenever the match takes a turn they don't like, regardless.

At the end of the day, and it sounds crappy, but if the game frustrates you enough that you rage quit with any frequency, maybe taking a step back from it is the best course of action. Don't punish those making the best of it because you personally are fed up.

As others have said, the DC's on death hook are the most ridiculous. Normally, I laugh at those, since there's nothing hurting me by a survivor doing it. But tonight, I had the Rift challenge from the very first one where you need to sacrifice 4 people in the basement, simply because I'd never done it, and all of my other killer challenges are pretty much finished. I was on the Grim Pantry as Trapper, but not running a basement build. Got a few hooks spread out evenly, then got someone down near the basement of the main building. Two separate people stepped into traps going for a rescue while I was across the map (I was running Honing Stone, so they went into the dying state). I ended up with three people basement hooked and downed the 4th shortly afterwards. Bringing them to the basement, they DC'ed right before I could get them on a hook.

No one was tunneled, no one was camped. The match played out as "fairly" as one could expect as a survivor. The team simply made crucial mistakes and were careless heading into the main building, and that helped me to snowball, but because someone rage-quit out of immaturity, I didn't get the challenge done, which was frustating. It's a good reason why having a bot to take the place of a player that DC's would be a nice change, to keep people like that last survivor from costing other people challenges or achievements.