Giving up at a higher rate?

I've become one of the people who tends to dc. It's very rarely because of what the killers doing unless I just get unlucky with being camped/tunneled many games in a row. Most of the time it stems from what my teammates are doing and as good as the new hud icons are, they don't help me any lol. Just lets me see who or how many aren't doing anything while I'm being chased. Or I dc because I get left on hook. Which happens more than it should.

This is also, I imagine, the same for many people. One reason why it always seemed like I did it when the killer downed me is because that's when I could see what my teammates were doing.

It doesn't bother me when people are breaking totems, healing, opening a chest, etc... But the amount of people I see just crouching around is baffling to me. I don't get mad if I think they are new either but many of them are not new.

I don't dc enough to worry about racking up penalties, usually if I dc once I log off for the day. The bad part is in that over my time in the game I started out completely against dcing. Then I started to do it some as killer back in the day. Now I never feel the need to do so as killer but every other game as survivor and I'm ready to turn the game off.

As a new survivor is im put again high skill players playing any op killers myers, bubba nurse good nurse anyway we will legit force kill ourselfs we know we dont stand a chance in the first place if the chase ends short most new players just kill themselvs because what the point of playing if the killer is way better than the surivivor they already go faster than a survivor so at that point ot hopeless for a new player to comuinue with the match take the loss move on

This gets thrown about enough at killers so. Skill issue/babies is the reason.

i have never dc as survivor as I care about ruining others experience.

"you don't balance a game around tournaments" the most successful games of all time have been balanced around tournaments because the top players are the ones that point out broken mechanics, things that need to be buffed etc... rather than listening to people who just assume everything is fine because they've dedicated time to it and like flexing in the majority of one sided games on the ladder vs alot of the time beginners. (you)

they chose blight because he's easier to get a 4k with than all other killers other than nurse, if you really don't understand that then you're just blinded by how much time you've spent beating on solo survivors, only having a hard time in the 1 of 10 games you come up against a SWF.

there's no such thing as a 1v1 in DBD because the entire game is MADE for killer advantage .... (your ego again)

I did see an uptick in Survivors DCing right before I stopped playing... which was over a year ago

It seems like us players will continue to play a game we don't like (at that moment) for reason we barely understand

I've played comp for a year and blight is one of the few killers who has most good perks forbidden for him in tourneys. He is the only killer besides Nurse who regularly 4ks even the best teams. Yea it takes time and dedication to be that good but once you reached that level he is far from being "fine", either they nerf all of his add ons or they make his power not being available so fast after using it. For the regular pub survivors he is overtuned af and needs changes.

so that comment there just proves that you're not bothered about actual facts and it's "i've spent thousands of hours getting sweaty with blight, so he is fine"

everyone and their dog knows that Nurse is broken ..... her mechanic cancels out anything a survivor can do as soon as the killer has put enough time in to learn her mechanics ...

but her kill ratio isn't 100% why ? because she takes time to learn. not HARD to learn all you have to do is spend time learning her and then she is broken, but the fact is that MOST nurses only play a few games and get destroyed by good survivor teams then just swap to another killer out of frustration when they can't be bothered to learn the mechanics. This keeps the figures more level because if we just took the win ratio from the top 5% of nurse killers the figures would be absolutely stupid and atleast 85% win rate.... EXACTLY the same as blight

When a Nurse killer hits the top they are literally ignoring game mechanics and there is no level of skill that a survivor can bring to escape, it is pure mind games and if the killer messes up. Blight isn't far behind this especially with his addons but you're just ignoring that because you've put thousands of hours into being sweaty with him.

I don't think this is the game for you.

Yep, IDK what it is. Also, I've noticed that almost no one bothers to go for hook saves?! Even with kindred when they KNOW it's safe. I sometimes genuinely feel bad for their teammates, and for hooking them 😅

I feel like people have been saying this for a year now lol

I have some days I play where people are DCing or quitting often, and other days almost everyone seems to be putting in an actual effort.

lmfao. I don't think you realize how few players have put the time into blight to understand the collision of many things in the game and play around it accordingly. Is alch ring and c33 broken yes, but blight can be abused via his collision and rng and not understanding that is a big part of him being so free once learned to the extent hugtechlover has.

Go on, name the collision of every object at every angle, I'll wait.

Oh wait you can't, because even 99% of blight mains don't know it and it really is just a knowledge gap on 99% of survivors as well. The comp players that I have gone against haven't put in the effort to learn blights collision to a decent extent, how would I expect you to understand any of it? There is at the very least one play on every map that survivors didn't use blights collision against him, even the most solid of maps. Then there is things like eeyrie(which is deceivingly slippery) swamp and yamaoka that have extremely abusable collision.

The stats don't matter but everything outside of c33(even though alch ring is op) leaves a lot to be desired from survivor side. Good survivors typically just play vs blight like he is nurse, but also pre throw, which is not optimal unless the survivor is at very selective loops.

If you can't look at the outside of every single loop and understand what the blight has to work with, you are not playing well enough vs him. Cowtree being a big one that survivors should never get hit at, ever.

It's quite telling of this player bases skill for nurse to be as low as she is. Her skill floor might be the highest but it's not hard to reach and her skill ceiling is laughable compared to blights. I can only chalk it up as newish players finally giving into playing nurse and giving up after 5 games.

If we ignore c33 and alch ring then blight is the pinnacle of this game. It's unfortunate so many players are less than even a casual level in this game.

The thing is, most blights are awful by my standard. Most being probably around 90% if I am putting it against my better estimation. But on the other hand at least 95% of survivors don't have any clue on what to do against a good blight. Some of that is from people not trying to learn and some of that is from how little survivors get to go against an actually good blight.

I get it, your teamates probably don't even know what collision is and thus they can't even do a basic pluto at most shacks, but that's really not your fault it's theirs.

The difference between something like league and dbd though is that way too many people are bad and are not trying to get better. "High mmr" isn't even good survivors for the most part, just people running the best stuff available in a swf. I can lower my mmr or raise it to the max and all I will receive is efficiency on the survivor side not a noticeable increase in chase skills, including comp players. I remember running alch ring/iri tag for the second time quite a while back, going into it expecting the easiest of games. But I went against a god tier survivor on Zarina who absolutely 1v9d the game for the survivors. Not because they had the capability to loop m1 killers which is beyond easy but because they were able to absolutely destroy me in so many ways as blight on suffo pit I wasn't even a little tilted. It's just these survivors are so few and far between this game lacks substance for me at the moment. I am simultaneously playing the most skilled killer in the game by far and giving survivors the highest possible ability to improve by playing blight with low tier add-ons.

Seriously, if I went against these god chasers and not these bots/efficient teams who lack the real skill I desire to play against I would be inclined to play this game much more. As it stands I just can't bring myself to care with the current player base.

Keep in mind I have maIned several killers before blight ranging between hag and blight which have opposite play styles. But if I play Bubba it's more on the survivors to make a mistake, more than it is for either of us to be in a skilled chase in which both of us can make a skilled play at the same time.

I'll probably pick up killer and not just survivor for a bit after the patch drops, but this is literally the only game I have ever complained about how terrible my opponents are(on boths sides).

The main problem is how easy it is for a bad Blight to still win against their 'equal' MMR survivors. When bad Survivors can't practice against equal skilled oppressive Killers, and just get facerolled without effort, they aren't going to ever learn how to beat those Killers. That is what I am talking about with the disengagement. They aren't ever going to learn to get better against oppressive Killers because they never get the opportunity to.

Also the oppressive Killers lack the 'opposite side' learning that many other Killers have. When I play Plague/Huntress I learn as Survivor to circle small rocks when I just need to delay. When I play Trapper or Ghostface or Hag, I learn how powerful 1 player 'harassing' the Killer's power can be. When I play Blight, I learn 'Survivors die lul git rekt'.

I still think there is greater skill in the execution of Bubba, because early saws that hit on the last second of the third charge take a lot of practice without being oppressive. With the Bubba you learn from both sides whether to greed or drop pallets. That is tough (other than on Borgo/Garden of Pain) because you run out of pallets and/or hook states sooner than later, so it still feels like it is in the better sides' camp.

Bad blights literally don't know what a shoulder filck is and any sort of movement from the survivor side is a free dodge. I went against a "bad" c33 and adrenaline vial blight a few months back is it was a free win. C33 is the only add-on that makes blight free in a equal skill match below high mmr, alch ring is awful in low tier. The issue is that survivors simply haven't tried to learn the character with the most complex interaction in the game by far. Comp teams I go against pre throw on the most anti blight tiles in the game(yeah I know it's not team eternal but the point still stands). No one wants to learn how to play against him because it's too much effort. Yes his top few add-ons are beyond op but that doesn't excuse even 6k hour survivors not understanding how to play vs blight at all.

Regardless of whether blight is oppressive he still has the highest skill ceiling for survivors to play against. Playing vs better players on a high skill ceiling character and watching videos on twitch and youtube are universal ways to improve massively in any game.

Bubbas skill ceiling isn't even licking blights feet and playing survvior vs even the best of bubbas is rather free on majority of maps.

I just can't stand how low the skill of both sides in this game are even when including the average high mmr players on both sides. It's just so sad, genuinely. Survivors simply have the most room for growth vs blight and Killers have the most room for growth playing blight.

The sad fact of dbd is the 99% of the player base on both sides just isn't good.

It's not really a question of whether or not something is a part of gameplay, nor is it a question of whether or not it is a smart play.

People play video games because they are enjoyable. When the game stops becoming enjoyable, people stop playing.

It's really that simple.

I didn't comment looking to debate the ethics of rage quitters--there's no question they're detrimental to everyone else's experience.

OP was asking why people rage quit. If they're encountering it every game, there is a real possibility their in-game decisions are contributing to the frequency of rage quitters in their games.

Whether or not OP wants to change their in-game behavior to minimize the occurence is up to them. They're no more or less responsible for everyone else's enjoyment as the other players in their game. If you're going to make the argument that Killers are not responsible for the Survivors' fun, you should recognize that ragequitters hold the same exact opinion about the other players in their lobby. They'll continue to rage quit, because they need only care about whether or not they are enjoying the game.

I agree, I don't think OP should worry about it. There are enough other comments in the thread echoing that sentiment--don't really feel like I needed to preach to the choir. OP would likely decide that on their own, regardless.

It doesn't hurt to be aware of causality, tho.

Additionally, unless BHVR can remedy the problem, players are obligated to take responsibility for their own actions.

If someone is doing something blatantly unenjoyable to their opponent, they shouldn't be surprised when their opponent refuses to participate in normal play.