Why do survivors dc and give up so easily?

I've seen a spike in DCs and give ups on hook immediately after 6.1., but for the past few months things had seemed to settle a little.

However, the past week I've experienced weird DCs on both sides that were not petty in nature but the game being its weird self. For example, getting DC'd during a stun or a survivor DCing after being locked into an animation. Those do not have DC penalties.

Maybe the last update made the game less stable and wound up with more DCs than usual.

Not explaining the survivors giving up on hook, but I definitely think there are more DCs currently that what is "normal".

Once you hit 30 minutes on DC, I’ve heard it doesn’t reset? Can anyone confirm this?

It does.

Sure, there are times when maybe you DC because the killer is dominating so badly that you just want out of the match. I wouldn't DC for any of those reasons but I get why others might.

My comment was more directed for survivors who quit right away at the beginning of the match when the slightest thing goes wrong for them.

While they absolutely might be raging do keep in mind there's an issue right now where people's games keep crashing. Especially console players, but I've had my fair share of crashes on pc. You really can't tell atm.

so...exactly what he said. you only want to play when you have a strong chance of winning.

You absolutely can win a 1v3 at 4 gens. Sounds like you could use some improvement, but hard to improve when you DC anytime you are at a disadvantage.

If there is a problem with the line, it is acceptable because it is an accidental DC.

A DC for a problem that makes it impossible to progress in the game is acceptable.

A DC is acceptable when the game is held hostage, especially in situations where no other players are expected.

All other selfish DCs are unacceptable (based on my reading of the rules).

Are you aware of the fact that a player who insists that his own selfish DC should be tolerated must also tolerate the selfish DC of all other players?

Perhaps they will never realize it. Because they are the only ones in their world.

My worst experience so far was yesterday: We played on Badham and got a pretty good map, the Killer however has Corrupt Intervention. As such I run off into the map searching for a free generator and run into a Clow. Clown chases me for a bit however hits me with a Pinky Finger and I go down and go on the hook. A teammate takes this as "oh no, I am out" and DCs.

The match was perfectly winnable. The Clown was not even camping me, Corrupt Intervention was lifted by me going down and the two other mates were already on separate generators, my one friend who was on discord with me even confirmed that we had a pretty damn strong house of pain...

The game have balance issues.

When the game gets balanced around fast killers, slow killers are often forced to use scummy tactics just to get the kills (not always tho) but it seems that a lof of the perks put into the game lately are rushing gen repairs to a point that often (not always) 1-2 gens will pop as the first guy gets hooked, if it is a slow killer.

• Then the killer have 3-3½ gens to get 5 more hook states (including finding survivors and chasing them) just to get a draw.

This can feel overwhelming, and with all the alturisim in the game, camping is an easy way to secure this with less stress.

That beeing said, there will always be people around that will do stuff like that, but it have become more and more since the gens started flying faster and faster.

The DC penalty is only 1 minute for your first DC.

You also don't get a penalty for letting go on the hook.

Killers' game can end between 4 to 12 hooks.

Survviors' game have to end with 5 Gens and a Gate.

I don't DC but give up a lot.

What people forget is that for someone who got dumped to bottom of the MMR pit the experience is ridiculously poor and I can easily have 20+ bad games in a row. If I want fun then DbD has basically become a full-time job because it might just take 8 hours until I get a match I manage to enjoy, and that's with taking shortcuts out of bad games.

I never kill myself when I start a playing session, but after 6-8 bad games in a row, depending on how bad they actually are, I want out and go next. I see no point in playing a game where two teammates are dead on hook before even the first gen is done.

Ask the devs to fix their poor matchmaking and I'll stop giving up - because it is a relatively recent thing I've started. I've played this game for five years, unless I wanted to give the last survivor the chance to get hatch it never occurred to me that I could kill myself just because a game went bad early, because after one or two bad ones, the next one was usually better again.

And with "good game" I don't mean "I must win" but at least it should be close and I want to feel like I lost to a better or equally skilled player.

"Survivors in general don't DC because of tunneling, etc (specific survivor players yes, in general no);"

Seems like you're sorta making a statement encompassing the entirety of the Survivor playerbase.

That, in general, you are being selfish if you DC? Unless you queued with a 4 person SWF that is 100% true. As soon as that ready button is pressed you agreed to play the game as intended and the other players are expecting you to play as such. If you DC you just sabotaged your entire team and made it much harder for them to accomplish what they want to because of your personal inconvenience. That's a perfect example of selfishness in most cases.

I say most for the same reason I said specific. If it's for health reasons or real life concerns, hey, stuff happens and that's far more important than someone doing a tome challenge. But if you DC because you don't like the Killer or the map or your ego is hurt because you got beat in chase that is 100% completely and unequivocally selfish and saying but Nurse or but tunneled is just an attempted excuse for being selfish. Anyone who does so is a terrible team player and needs to either play Killer, queue with a 4 person SWF or not play a game where other people rely on you.

You said it yourself; go play something that's more enjoyable for you until you're less tilted and can play normally. I'd like BHVR to nerf tunneling and camping to the ground and give Killers chase buffs and incentives to hook multiple times but until that happens you don't have the right to wreck the match for other people because you're upset because you got tunneled.

If you're that tilted finish the match, log off, tell BHVR your feelings, play something else or do whatever you need to in order to cool off but don't wreck the match for other people that haven't done anything wrong and are counting on you.

Edit: Unless you are in a 4 person SWF. In that case, that's between you and your friends.

Thank you. People shouldn't DC for anything less than RL issues and I think saying it's because of tunneling and camping is an obfuscation. I don't tunnel or camp and I still see multiple DCs when I play Killer. As an example last night the third survivor I hooked DCed while there were four gens left. That game was very possibly winnable for the survivors and the two other survivors I hooked were the same; I hooked and then left to patrol gens and/or find a different survivor. So three hooks spread over three survivors, the Killer leaving to another part of the map, one gen done, and the survivors working on two other gens. Tunneling and camping had nothing to do with that DC and I typically see DCs like that in about a third to 40% of my games.

I do blame them because other people are counting on them. If it's something like they're trying to give the last person Hatch then that's a considerate thing to do and that's cool to see. However, if it's we're facing Pinhead or I got tunneled or something like that then stick it out for 5 or 10 minutes instead of wrecking the match for everyone else.

This is so funny it hurts lmfao. Like don’t go easy I just want to get out of this match against you.

A 3v1 at 5 gens isn't winnable in Solo Q.

I'll loop for what I can but I'd rather go next and try to get a better match-up.

I suppose I'm just a sympathetic person. I dunno.