Quitters

They should make sure habitual quitters all queue up with each other and keep them out of normal queues

Let's hope the anti go next prevents people like you from repeatedly doing it time and time again. A nice long penalty would do the trick nicely.

The biggest reason that I see people DC, Killer or Survivor, is because the player feels like the round is not worth playing or isn't fun. This is usually because of one of the following:

- They feel they have no way to reach their goal in time: i.e., Survivors are popping gens super fast or Killer is getting a lot of hooks fast and the player's own side has barely started (few hooks, few gens done, etc.)
- The other side is playing in a way that is clearly done to frustrate the other side (griefing/Bully Squads) or is playing to win as quickly as possible (Tryharding): i.e., The Survivors are a SWF that brought heavy gen progression against a low mobility M1 Killer on a large map, the Killer is a four Slowdown tunnelling Blight, the Killer is slugging really hard from the word go, the Survivors are a Sabo Squad trying to prevent the Killer from getting ANY hooks at all while hoping they're baby enough for one teammate to pump gens and leave, etc.
- They perceive the round as a bad MMR mismatch - too easy or too hard: A Ghostface loads into a round against a really strong and skilled SWF that averages 4000+ hours, two newer players load in and their first round of the day is a really good Nurse player with 15k hours, a Comp Pinhead Main used to strong teams loads into Haddonfield against players that clearly have never faced Pinhead before, a generic group of friends loads in to find their Doctor for the round is a Shard farming bot, etc.
- They feel "bullied" for some reason whether or not griefing is happening or not (actual rage quitting): An inexperienced player has been struggling as Legion all day and mistakenly sees any team that merely does well as being a "bully SWF", a Survivor has had the misfortune of getting a lot of tunnelling Killers recently and thus perceives even Killers who happen to catch them multiple times in the open by chance as "tunnelling", etc.
- The other side feels the round was unfairly stacked against them with offerings or items and doesn't want to even begin the round: i.e., a percieved SWF bringing a bunch of map offerings especially maps that favor Survivor heavily, a Killer bringing an Iri Mori in an event, and so on.
- The player gets someone or multiple someones on their team they perceive to be bad teammates or unserious in some way: i.e., A Blight in 2v8 looking for a skilled partner gets matched with a player just learning Nurse, a more serious minded SoloQ Survivor gets matched with a silly SWF or with brand new players, a player gets matched with other Survivors or AGAINST Survivors where someone throws early, etc.
- Someone in the round is cheating, hacking, or playing in a suspicious manner: A Survivor successfully sets up Treacherous Crows but the Killer does not light up any Crows despite not being Undetectable, A Killer with an aura read build notices that one specific Survivor never lights up, speedhacking Nurse, Survivors are clearly using OBVIOUS cheat clients to make it so the Killer can never catch, pickup, down, or otherwise harm them, etc.
- There is a bot in the round, or too many bots in the round for any reason.

All of these come from a similar few problems, we can narrow that down to the following unfun match types:

- Unfair: MMR mismatches, tilting the Match in one side's favor, playtime differences causing an understandable skillgap between sides, Cheaters/Hackers.
- Unbalanced: Running only the meta or meta perks on strong Killers all the time, natural game events creating a tilt to one side or the other by chance, playing a Killer with a weaker kit against stronger Survivors by chance, bringing Meme builds against strong Killers by chance, etc.
- Unwanted: Griefing, BM, bots, "playing to win"/tryhards vs. the majority of more casual players, general unpleasant player to player events.

How do we fix it? Here's some ideas:

- Unfair: More robust MMR management and fairer means of gain/loss of MMR. Removing or balancing ways one side or the other can tilt the game in their favor when stacking things like items, addons, or offerings. Ensuring anyone under the 100 hour threshold NEVER plays against anyone above that threshold while they learn the game by placing them in a stricter "Kiddie Pool MMR". More robust cheat/hack detection that is continuously updated to ensure the most common kinds of hacks are noticed as invalid and instantly ban players doing them from the game.
- Unbalanced: Buffing perks to create more viable options for perk variety while balancing other perks that are a bit too strong. Balancing maps and tiles to be fair to even the most low mobility Killers as the bog standard, but adding a means of adjusting complexity of tiles for Killers that don't struggle with mobility or tiles as much. Buffing or balancing Killers that are low mobility by giving them more options or fixing problem areas in their kits, as well as map balancing. Disallowing too many multiples of the same perk between players in a SWF or too many of the same kind of Perk on one Killer in order to promote perk variation (NOT ideal). Prevention of weaker Killers from going against certain kinds of builds too often (also NOT ideal).
- Unwanted: Properly defining and handling actual griefing by preventing it from the start or putting lockout timers on people who do it too often. Addressing issues with there being multiple bots in a round, and adding killer bots should the Killer DC. Adding a ranked mode and a casual mode, or making the ranked mode super easy to pip in but based on killrate or scores instead of your pips for the seasonal grade. Changing how MMR and wins are calculated to promote the idea that 4ks and escapes are not the only way to win the game, pip up, reach a goal, etc. Prevention of those who have gone on long winstreaks from being matched with teams or Killers who are casual enough to lose a lot, play meme builds, let Survivors go free, etc. Better policing of griefing and BM, sore winners/losers, etc (not sure how this would look).

This game is horror villain tag/capture the flag. It really shouldn't feel frustrating by design. Killer players should not feel nervous with their stomach in knots loading in because the team they're against looks like they're here to rush gens and leave in five seconds when they want a casual Pig round. Survivor players should not have to deal with Killers so stressed by the time limit and all the things a decent team can DO to tilt things in their favor a bit that the Killer plays hard from the word go and pulls unfun tricks like tunnelling and slugging for multiple minutes. This game should not be a rush to go shorter shorter shorter rounds, we need to slow it down a bit.

And for the love of everything, Pipping should not feel like something you have to earn anymore, it should just happen if you stay in the round as a reward for later since Grades are JUST a measure of how much you played that month. Nobody cares about the Grades, but people do care about the BP attached to Grades, which though meaningless is enough incentive to sweat especially in higher Grades.

This is true for Killer side as well. Why would anyone want to stay in a round where they only have a couple hooks and three gens have popped off in one minute? At some point it stops being a skill issue and starts being an actual issue with the game because humans cannot possibly complete all tasks when the tasks have to be done in a rapidly dwindling, stressful window.

Fun needs to be the focus for EVERYONE. You should be incentivized to care about everyone getting to enjoy the round. The problem is the game defines fun as winning and the definition of winning is so narrow…

then why do they bring so many second chance perks?