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Reconnect system

There should be a feature that allows players to reconnect to games, especially considering how the disconnect penalty stacks. Using myself as an example, I have pretty good internet but depending on the weather I may have connection drops of around 5-10 seconds. This translates to either a small lag spike or disconnecting from the host, and every time it happens I cross my fingers that it's a lag spike so I don't have to see that mounting ban timer when I get kicked back to lobby. This is all the more frustrating since it only happens about 1 in 20 games for me, but because of how the disconnect penalty system works that ban timer will just keep going up unless I step away from the game for like a week. Granted I know this problem likely won't be so prominent for most players, but I've also seen a fair amount of people dc in similar ways (and I'm thinking about the people who dc at "non-ragequitter" times such as during the first generator or standing at the end gate waiting to see if they need to save their teammate). I also understand that there'd be potential for abuse if such a reconnect system made players invulnerable while they're dc'd or anything like that, but I can't see any negative in making players who dc simply stand still (but remove their collision in case they're blocking a spot) until either the game is over, a certain amount of time has passed or they reconnect. It absolutely kills me to sit through a 30 minute game caused by an afk killer and teammates who don't want to to gens without the threat of a killer, only to disconnect as I'm opening the gate and then get banned for however long.

Comments

  • Maxi605
    Maxi605 Member Posts: 145

    Matches go by too quickly for this to be useful.

  • IlliterateGenocide
    IlliterateGenocide Member Posts: 6,030

    True, as long as the body stays around for a little or the killer can even hook it. but games are short so i dont know how useful it would be, but it would be nice