Remove penalty

Yes, I also think it would be better if there were no more DC penalties BUT then the system has to be adapted like in games like e.g. in League of Legends.

If you leave the game for whatever reason (connection lost, ragequit, etc.) you will be replaced by a bot. However, and now the change comes, you then have the option to rejoin the match and can no longer enter the queue until the match is completed.

When you join the still open match, you logically replace your own bot.

So even players who had a real disconnect due to internet problems (which is definitely the absolute minority of all discornnects in DBD) have the opportunity to rejoin.

For all those who think they have to intentionally ruin the gaming experience for the other 4 players on a regular basis, a permanent punishment should be given at some point.

If the game bothers them so much, they can switch to single-player games.

That will still trigger a penalty.

The issue is probably that you stayed in the match/scoreboard. The penalty starts counting down the moment you leave the game, so if you're on the scoreboard and then loading for 60 seconds total, the penalty will have finished before you even get the chance to queue again.

2nd is 5 minutes, so again if you quit and then go out of the room for a bit you can cone back to a penalty free lobby again.

Particularly common if you're playing with SWF, and have to wait for others to leave first anyway.

That may be the case but it isn't the central point of this thread so let's not derail much further.

I will only say that my first comment was aimed at OPs "U have no right to..." argument, me saying that they have much extremer rights than the mere DC penalty.

And the second was a clarification that there is a difference when owning a hardcopy of an offline game and most games nowadays that require online connection one way or another and the possible supervision by the publisher.

I never neither said games as a service didn't exist 20 years ago nor that those other don't exist nowadays anymore. Just that games today hardly ever get released in a final state but are/have to be patched multiple times.

If you want to discuss this further pm me as this isn't topic of this thread.

You get one free DC a day as the first penalty is only 60 seconds, which I personally save for skull merchant, but constantly leaving and ruining the game for other players is why the penalty exists.

Why shouldn't they be? They're not the only part of the experience—quitting deprives other survivors of a capable teammate, and deprives the killer of an enjoyable, fair challenge.

For everyone saying that the DC penalty is consistent on how long the punishments are, they really aren't. I got bored of DBD for a bit and took almost an entire month off the game, played for 3 days straight after coming back, then got slapped in the face with a 5 minute penalty for my first DC in at least 2 months. That doesn't look very "consistent" like people try saying.

I do want to mention that keeping it in does actually result in a worse experience for teammates. If somebody wants out of the match and don't want a penalty then they'll just let themselves die on the hook which then disrupts what the team is doing because they're forced to rush to the hook to stop them from doing that and even if you do manage to keep them from doing that there's a good chance that they'll just refuse to play by just running to the killer, waiting under the hook to die, or, even worse, start throwing a tantrum when the killer refuses to kill them by throwing down every pallet in the map. On top of that if you don't let them disconnect in peace and decide to let themselves die on hook you'll get no compensation bot to replace them and I don't know about you, but I'd MUCH rather have a bot on my team than a missing teammate entirely early on in the game. All this kind of system does is encourage more disruptive behavior which is why a lot of game devs are resorting to making it to where you can't earn rewards from future matches after a disconnect rather than a full-on matchmaking ban. That way they can still disconnect and play, but they just can't earn any rewards even if they stay in the future matches. I, honestly, think that the game would benefit from that system more than the current system.

This is one reason I feel BHVR needs to rework the penalty, other games understand what a disconnection from the internet is, while a predisposition to willingly click a button shows a willingness to quiting a game. Those are the ones that should be punished. Clicking on a I Quit button, recieves the penalty.

That said, physically unplugging a console, or PC to bypass an acknowledgement of quiting. Faking a disconnection. Is what needs to be determined and that's the hard to do. Sadly.

Oh not to mention getting the penalty when other players DC you. And yes that’s a thing. I’ve had it done to me before. Though that is more of a hacker problem, and I haven’t run into it often.

Thank you!

This is the reason why the DC penalty needs a cap. Maybe 60 minutes max. If they DC again, get locked for another hour (until they can refrain from DC'ing long enough for the penalty to reset). That's quite a long time for a single penalty, considering there are only 24 hours in a day, and ideally 16 of them are spent either working or sleeping.