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Why do all my teammates give up so easily?

Vlarian
Vlarian Member Posts: 165

I've had over double digit games now where my teammates completely give up on hook or go to second stage immediately and go to the next game. I just want to play the game, why is this happening??? As a solo q player I feel so incredibly helpless, like every game I load into is an automatic loss.

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  • Astel
    Astel Member Posts: 661
    edited January 12

    Yeah Solo Q can be sucks in many times. They give up due to various astonishing reasons. Very sad that there is almost nothing you can really do to convince your teammates to do their best.

    Kinda unfortunate but here Sole Survivor exists for you. Quite work well. Since you can raise your mmr by escaping with exit gate, you can use this perk to escape by exit gate and can expect to meet better teammates.

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  • RFSa09
    RFSa09 Member Posts: 886

    they have no faith, they know they´re not good enough to win that game or they´re just tired of the game, but they want to play it, they want to have fun, or they´re bad, or maybe they wanna to poop sooo hard, remember, we are all humans with real life problems, but i still dislike when it happens

  • The_Krapper
    The_Krapper Member Posts: 3,259

    Some people give up just for going down first or too quick, or if they don't like the killer you play etc... those people don't see they ruin the game for everyone else and make a winnable match become unwinnable. Killer feels better because you don't have to worry about anyone else but solo survivor has always been annoying, I miss partying up with friends on this game but alot of the people I started with at the very beginning when it dropped refuse to play anymore and I have to switch games just to play with friends these days.

  • Sava18
    Sava18 Member Posts: 2,439

    Because the 4% garbage is still a thing, still have yet to see valid defense for it's existence. It hurts survivors more than killer 95% of killers will take the free win.

  • Nazzzak
    Nazzzak Member Posts: 5,851

    If you want to win, then best advice is to get a swf. Solo queue isn't going to get any better, especially as a dev all but said in the recent AMA that they're not really sure what they can do for solo players anymore.

    This is all a symptom of a larger problem with the game. Most people will say that removing the ability to 4% or harsher DC penalties might help, but honestly all that will do is drive people away from DBD. Forcing people to remain in game won't force them to participate. I think alot of solo players are feeling apathetic towards the game and simply don't care anymore. You know when the game is over pretty quickly. I find just playing for dailies or challenges or bp helps.

  • edgarpoop
    edgarpoop Member Posts: 8,445
    edited January 12

    People give up for a lot of reasons. Sometimes you just know though. Some players don't have fun in a super casual setting. When one teammate is on the great dull totem hunt of 2024 at 5 gens, another is crouched and hasn't touched a gen yet, and the last player just started a gen as you went on the hook, it makes you question things. The game gives you no way to curate your experience outside of SWF, and wins and losses mean absolutely nothing. That's going to lead to people playing matchmaking roulette.

  • humanbeing1704
    humanbeing1704 Member Posts: 8,998

    There’s a multitude of reasons why people do it

  • Caiman
    Caiman Member Posts: 2,960
    edited January 12

    If a game goes bad enough fast enough, I feel like there isn't a point in playing it further. I would like to keep playing so I can pip or earn bloodpoints, but the pip system is terribly designed and survivors don't earn enough points for what they're doing, especially in a match going sour and ending too quickly, so it feels pointless to attempt to prolong it. May as well save time, take the L, and move on.

    I wish I had more incentive to stay in an obviously-doomed match.

    But there are plenty of players who are just ragequitting at the first sign of inconvenience or whatever arbitrary thing they get unreasonably salty over. That's a problem too, and usually leads to the obviously-doomed matches.

  • BubMickey07
    BubMickey07 Member Posts: 312

    Could be various reasons I mean the dc penalty should be gone already.

    It sucks but this is a video game people have real things going on at that moment like feeling sick or having their baby cry which these are more important then the game itself, they should remove the penalty so people can quit and a bot will take over so the game doesn't end immediately.

    And I know no one really likes bots but they do gens and can keep killers distracted which is what the survivors should be doing.

  • solarjin1
    solarjin1 Member Posts: 2,233

    I don't know but I personally believe solo q players have lost faith in the system. Even veteran streamers will "go next" and the newest generation of players have learn the same. who know why at this point? maybe certain tactics being quite unfun to go against remaining in the game. From what i see survivors complain about tactics far more than any other issue. You can nerf tunneling, camping, and nurse...people will still give up. People don't feel like they can win in solo queue and it been ingrained in them.

  • Cyber686
    Cyber686 Member Posts: 64

    awful teammates is the reason

  • Donkeybqlls
    Donkeybqlls Member, Alpha Surveyor Posts: 81
  • Ayodam
    Ayodam Member Posts: 3,203

    It’s not uncommon for killers to target TTV players, and if the guy said the Doctor was essentially harassing him (which again is common for TTV survivors) then maybe that one time you saw when the Doctor couldn’t find you but found him wasn’t the only time it happened. Sometimes people actually are tunneled/harassed by killers.

  • th3syst3m
    th3syst3m Member Posts: 394

    Well there used to be a ranking system that actually rewarded you for playing...Seriously out of every misstep, I feel like removing that incentive is the biggest thing that killed solo q.

  • Ayodam
    Ayodam Member Posts: 3,203
    edited January 12

    @Vlarian I second this. If you’d like to improve your chances of escape as survivor either join a SWF or play with endgame escape in mind. That means your build should be…

    wake up, sole survivor, distortion, alert (or some other killer tracker) or some variant thereof.

    You’ll want to do just enough so the other survivors believe you’re contributing but not so much that you attract the killer’s attention. When you’re down to three survivors left, if there are 3 or more gens remaining you should start hiding. Depending on the map I’d say avoid searching for hatch and just wait for the gates.

  • Mr_K
    Mr_K Member Posts: 9,249

    Unbalanced in the wrong direction you mean. How often do you see a survivor DC when they are overwhelming winning? (Outside a crash of course.) You may see the killer DC but does your excuse work for them? No, they be ridiculed as pathetic, just like survivors that abandon their team.

  • mecca
    mecca Member Posts: 338

    I don't know what you mean by survivor DCing when they are overwhelming winning?

    You have to compare killers giving up compared to survivors. I think considering that survivors are the ones that often have no will to play it stands to reason the game is unbalanced very much against survivors.

  • Thusly_Boned
    Thusly_Boned Member Posts: 2,988

    It's a tale as old as time: when things don't go they way they hope, many people have a tantrum, take their ball and go home.

    And there's no excuse for it. If you queue up, play the game.

    Don't get me wrong, the game can be totally exasperating sometimes. But if you're not having fun, play out the match you're in, and then do something else. I did this last night: I played like five games, almost all of which were full of absolute nonsense, so I just quit after my last game. But I didn't give up in game. If there's at least one other player who seems to be actually trying, I will too.

    If you're someone who finds themselves consistently giving up on games and/or removing yourself from the game, maybe taking a total break from DBD is the more appropriate course of action. You're not showing your displeasure to BHVR by quitting in game, you're screwing other players.

    I hear a lot of people justify quitting by pointing out the state of the game/solo queue, but then they keep queuing up. If you're not going to play, don't play.

  • Mr_K
    Mr_K Member Posts: 9,249

    There are killers that feel the same. Difference is they are alone while survivors rely on eachother to play their role. When a survivor DCs it has a major impact to the remaining survivors. Those survivors will too stop playing if every match is met with a teammate giving up because X killer or other random reason.

    I don't know what you mean by survivor DCing when they are overwhelming winning?

    The point is you don't see it happening. A survivor handedly beating a killer isn't going to believe the game is unbalanced in their favor. They won't look at the situation and think things are too easy and leave the match.

  • NerfDHalready
    NerfDHalready Member Posts: 1,749

    babies are gonna be babies, maybe they are having a bad day. nothing much to do there unfortunately.

    but it also can be killer or survivor related. they might be unable to play against that specific killer (namely clown plague dredge and dull merchant), they might have already played too many times against that particular killer for their liking, they might find the killer (or their playstyle) really unfun to go against. i find only the first reasoning respectable, however. and here are some teammate related reasons i also might go next for:

    • if someone drops my pallets. that's a guaranteed go next p sure for majority of survivor players.
    • if i see a teammate camp pallets when they aren't even being chased (or better when I am being chased). i had that nea camp rpd main hall stairs pallet (and dropped it) for a solid 15 seconds while the killer was coming all the way up and popped the gen WITH BLAST MINE ON IT. well bye.
    • be the teammate you want to see in your team. gens gens gens especially at the start of the match and if you aren't winning later on.
    • an excessively immersive survivor especially those that hide after unhooking a teammate. honestly not my pet peeve, i'll take the extra chase; if i get chased all match and die like that it's a gg for me.
    • don't hang around a hooked survivor against a camper if you have no intentions to trade. they WON'T leave the hook, you should just go do a gen instead.

    honestly no need for a list. just be reasonable, have some awareness and remember you are in a team. the rest should come with experience.

  • sulaiman
    sulaiman Member Posts: 3,219

    Well, when i give up then usually because its already lost, most likly because you and others are hidding the entire time i was in a chase on the other side of the map, and noone has touched a gen yet, even we are 3 minutes into the match. Usually, it doesnt go up from there.

  • Marc_go_solo
    Marc_go_solo Member Posts: 5,347

    It happens in less Trials than it doesn't, and the reasoning for this varies depending on the individual and time involved. The one common denominator is a selfish reason though, which is shared by anyone doing this. There are many different excuses, but it all boils down to "I'm not getting enjoyment from this" and a sense of frustration (justified or not).

    There is one exception where the quitter may do this for a more selfless reason, which is if there is only them and one other Survivor left, with maybe 2 or 3 generators remaining. That player may be doing it to give the final Survivor a chance at escaping via the hatch. Even then, there is a selfish element, but it's broadly more understandable.

  • CrypticGirl
    CrypticGirl Member Posts: 714

    ^ This pretty much sums it up perfectly.

    Bad matches are to be expected, whether people give up or not. The best thing to do in those cases is just take the L and go next. However you may feel about the bad match or people quitting, it's already over. It's just a game. It's just one match.  Better luck next time.

    In this vein, I can't tell who's more entitled, the people who ragequit or the people who complain about said ragequitting.