Seriously why are dc penalties still here?

I thought that if you dc as killer, you dont get ANY bp. At least I havent whenever I had dc'd as killer. I literally get 0 bp. Yall get your bp's after you dc??? Must be nice lol 🤪

In the long run, removing the DC penalty would require the devs to make GOOD balance changes and to do so consistently and more frequently if they wanted all aspects of their game to be played. DCs would act as a de facto gauge on balance and fun.

There is no denying that certain perk combinations and killer powers create a very unfun game experience for survivors. Vice versa for survivor builds as well. If there was no DC penalty, if a match wasn't fun for every player, they would leave. Why should anyone be tormented with the most unfun game of the month because some killer player is "entitled to their fun at the expense of the survivors'?" The devs would need to balance these combinations in order for them to be used without disconnects, which would require an accurate read on the community and the general power level of all aspects of their game. Take a look at the scrapped twins changes and tell me with a straight face that we are even close to that point.

This game is stuck in a weird purgatory where it wants to have extreme competitive integrity while also being a carefree party game for newer players. It's the desire to have both that ultimately is hurting this game. It needs to decide what it wants to be and to continue down that path without looking back. Remaining indecisive in an attempt to capture the widest audience only hurts the experience of people that genuinely care for this game and its gameplay loop.

Also don't forget, before the DC penalty existed, players could DC as frequently as they wanted. And guess what? Not every game ended in 4 survivor DCs or the killer DCing. Sure skill levels and the game as a whole have changed, but that is proof that it is possible for both sides to enter a match and enjoy the outcome enough for both sides to remain until the trial's conclusion. No, every game would not end in the killer playing against 4 bots. No, not every game would have the killer disconnecting. Let's not pretend that the era of dbd where the game felt the most alive wasn't during a time where DCs existed without penalties.

Yeah, almost like when you offer players the option to roll for a more enjoyable match, they're gonna take it.

Likewise, duh, people are gonna flock to a new change and abuse it. That's pretty much the whole point of when they push bad updates to Live.

I don't know if this is sarcasm but in case of no, survivor still get BP, not the killer. Therefore the specific 7k for an escape mentioned in the post.

The funniest thing is that the existence of DC penalties while there is the bot mechanic actually makes the matter worse. Without DC penalties frustrated survivors would just DC and a bot would take their place and continue playing, but with DC penalties they just let go on the first hook, therefore the team loses one survivor completely. So it incentivizes dying over giving place to a bot. Pretty good job so far, as they say.

This is untrue. Neither get BP in case they disconnect. For survivors however, there is a bot that replaces them and the game still tracks the bot's BP. That's why it looks as if they got their BP.

I recently had a match end because of server issues and the game displayed me as the only survivor that had earned no BP despite the dc icon on every player.