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Why do you have to stay logged in for your DC penalty??
I understand the need for the DC penalties and shiz so no argument there. But why was it changed so that in order for your timer to run down, you gotta be logged into tha game?
I had a buncha game crashes and ended up with a 15 min timer. It used to be if you logged out and walked away from the game for your “cool down” you could come back after your timer ran out. Why did you change it to where you have to sit in the game lobby for the timer to run down?
The timer means you can’t play a match so whether it’s from crashes (which is happening a lot for the last year now) or someone just DCing and taking the penalty you’re not playing the game regardless. Why aren’t we allowed to be logged out of the game for our “punishment” to take effect now? Why was it changed to put us in the corner like lil kids? “You have to sit here and think about what you did!” style?
So basically in order for it to be a “real” punishment BHVR doesn’t want us to be able to play other games while we wait out our punishment timer? What kinda silliness is that? You can log out of the game for 2 hours and come back and still have your 5 minute timer.
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Likely so people who were intentionally DCing couldn't just log out; go play some other game/activity, and then come back with the penalty timer back at zero. Of course it's kinda silly in some ways because if the person DCs again, the penalty is just going to be even higher anyway. The penalty system is kinda flawed and a poor attempt to cover up all the other issues…
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Cruel and usual punishment (to game scale) in my opinion. It's the equivalent of putting a dunce cap on you while you sit in the corner.
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Just don’t DC and ruin other people’s games. Problem solved.
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Unsure.
Seems more and more like DBD wants you to be miserable.
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Thank you for completely missing the point of the post, especially as I said game crashes cause dc penalties too. Have a good day!
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DC penalties are needed, yes, but this level of punishment is not. The old DC penalties were just fine. There was no need to change them.
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I didn’t miss any point. I read every word of it and I stand by my reply. You’re still ruining other people’s games even if it’s unintentional. The penalty is meant to punish people who are doing it intentionally, and for those who are not doing it intentionally, to force them to fix their crashing issues before returning to play.
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but that’s my point. Why do they care if you log out to go play something else? You’re not playing their game meaning you’re taking their penalty regardless right?
It just feels like “If you want your penalty gone you’re not allowed to go have fun elsewhere! You just sit here and think about what you did!” That’s so weird to me
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Again, you are missing the point. Im not arguing against DC penalties which you seem to think I am.
Im asking why we can’t be logged out fo the game for our penalty. That never used to be that way until the recent changes and it’s silly. Whether you’re logged in or out of the game you’re taking your penalty because you can’t play the game regardless. So why make people stay logged in for their penalty to run out? That just seems petty for the sake of being petty.
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Call me cynical but I do not believe OP at all that they got 15 minute penalty from “repeated crashes”.
Right now the DC penalty is super lenient and you can disconnect from multiple games (reportedly 4-5) before even receiving the 1 minute penalty.
If you’re at a 15 minute penalty, you’re either ragequitting and not telling the truth (My theory) or you have crashed over 8 games in a row now and still keep queueing without stopping to try and fix your problem.
As for the question you stated in the OP, logistically there’s no reason for it to work that way, I’m assuming that is a bug since you’re apparently crashing/quitting and not launching again until later, maybe it would only apply the penalty then? Probably unintended.
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The point is though why does the timer exists when you are not playing the game? why does it not just tick down?
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Its always funny how people always wanna assume you’re lying & rage quitting when there are legit reasons for repeated crashes. Are you aware the new reshade update is causing peoples games to crash?
I didn’t have that issue but I did have an issue where I was troubleshooting and in order to test whether my fixes were working I had to, guess what? Boot up and play a game to see if the game would no longer crash. When the game crashed I had to go back and try another fix. Then test again and try another match to see if it crashed. Thats why I had the 15 minute penalty. I couldn’t tell when a fix worked until I tried the game and had it not crash. Trial and error.
Not everything is as nefarious as you’re making it out to be. Have a good night
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I love queuing survivor and being stuck in a game that's insta lose due to a teammate for the next 5 min. The rest of the survivors and the killer monotonously playing out a game no one wants to be in. The dc penalty isn't even that harsh.
I love a 3rd of my matches being a void in my irl time.
Also the timer doesn't tick down while off the game so you actually are penalized instead of queueing one OW quick play game before hoping back on to do the same garbage.
Also the you have to rage quit/ruin games on repeat to incur any sort of real penalty as the guy who got 1 upvote and 10 downvotes said, you all are just outing yourselves. You gotta be a repeat offender and then some to get to this state.
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Frequent game crashes is not a legitimate reason for DCing. If you are having major internet problems, then you shouldn’t be playing a team PVP game, because you are ruining the entire game for your teammates each time your game crashes.
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clearly you don’t know how this game works as game crashes on your end and dedicated server crashes do cause dc penalties. Some of you are just outing yourselves as not understanding what’s been going on with this game in the past year.
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I’m gonna give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you don’t see or comprehend what I posted. I wasn’t DCing. My game was crashing due to tech issues and I couldnt fix the issues without queueing up for the game to figure out if I was fixing the issue as the game was the only thing that kept crashing. How am I to know if I fixed an issue and can play the game again unless I try to play the game? I should just stay off the game without knowing whether or not I fixed the issue? You under stand how troubleshooting works right? (My game crashing also means there was a bot left for my team which is what everyone here advocated for when people used to be able to just give up on hook and leave their team with no one but I digress.)
And again I’m not advocating against DC penalties. I think they’re good and I’m not mad that I had them. That was not the point of this post whatsoever.
Just gonna copy and paste my response to someone else as it applies here: “Are you aware the new reshade update is causing peoples games to crash? I didn’t have that issue but I did have an issue where I was troubleshooting and in order to test whether my fixes were working I had to, guess what? Boot up and play a game to see if the game would no longer crash. When the game crashed I had to go back and try another fix. Then test again and try another match to see if it crashed. Thats why I had the 15 minute penalty. I couldn’t tell when a fix worked until I tried the game and had it not crash. Trial and error.”
I swear it’s like some of you only read the parts of a post you want to read and reply to that while ignoring the actual point of a post. Thanks for the engagement but I’m just gonna put people on ignore and move on from this. 😆 Have a good day.
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Did you try playing custom games, to make sure those games weren’t crashing? Because that doesn’t involve other people, so if you’re having a lot of game crashes then you should have started with that first.
And the point of your post is you want the DC penalties to be changed for everyone, just because of your specific issue. You should still be getting real DC penalties even if you are troubleshooting issues, because you’re still DCing in a lot of games, regardless of it’s intentional.
And you said you were troubleshooting issues, so just leave the game open while you troubleshoot the issues. And if your penalty times are getting big, then maybe you should be spending more time troubleshooting before trying again.
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Lol, the beginning of the end for me. I didn't know about this. 9 years and over 2000 dollars later...they know something is wrong with the game (as evidenced by all the tunneling/camping fixes), yet still this show of how it's our own fault for not tolerating the I tolerable. I was going to play today and still getting the error messages. Been fun. I may be back. Never know.
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I never said I wanted DC penalties changed for everyone. Not once did I say that. I asked WHY the specific change was made that made it so you had to stay logged into your game for their timer to run out.
I’ve been playing this game since 2020. The DC penalty timer was changed very recently with the go next prevention which made it so that if you had a timer, you now have to stay logged into the game for it to run down. It did not used to be that way. Before if you had a penalty, for let’s say an hour.. you could log out of the game and go watch tv for an hour then come back and your penalty would be gone and you could play again. That was your “cool off” period for ruining the games by DCing. Now they changed it to where in order for your penalty to run down, you must keep your game launched and sit in lobby while your timer runs down.
THATs what my complaint is about. Why is BHVR making people sit in their game lobby like a child in the corner forcing them to stare at a lobby screen for the duration of their timer? Whether you stay in game or log out, you’re still being banned from playing their game until your timer ends and that’s supposed to be the point of the penalty. This extra step of having to stay logged into feels like being petty or punishing for the sake of. Like “we don’t want you to be able to go play another game and have fun while you wait for our timer to run out. You have to sit here in your corner (corner being the game lobby) and think about what you did until your time is up.”
That’s the point I’m making. That’s silly and absolutely stupid imo. You’re not playing the game regardless of if you’re logged in or not so it just seems like an extra step to punish for no reason. Now they want to control your ability to have fun elsewhere outside of their game if they’re currently punishing you in their game? Thats weird full stop. I had a friend decide to take a break because after Dcing for like 4 matches, they obviously were not enjoying it/raging and decided to step away. They logged off for 3 days, came back and when they logged in, their 15 minute DC penalty was still sitting there. Waiting for them to sit in the lobby for 15 minutes to wait it out.
I’m sorry for the novel but I’m trying to make it clear what my complaint is because I don’t think you’re getting it. I’m not advocating for removing or lessening the times of the DC penalty. I’m simply asking why this extra step was added that was never in the game the entire time to begin with, and only seems to be there to infantilize the games playerbase.
I’m not gonna continue to reply to your responses about my troubleshooting because it’s not relevant to my complaint. How I chose to troubleshoot is my business and I’m not complaining about the fact that I received the DC penalty. I knew it would likely happen and I accepted it.
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The whole point is for the DC punishment to be painful and frustrating for the offender. If the new system is more painful and frustrating than the old system, which based on your complaints it sounds like it is, then it’s working exactly as intended.
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The DC penalties are supposed to be inconvenient. You are supposed to acknowledge the fact that you are ruining games for other people, and you are supposed to actually think and reflect on what you are doing.
So just accept the fact that the penalties have changed. You said you were troubleshooting anyway, so what difference does it make if the game has to be open?
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I strongly recommend not engaging further with who you are trying to communicate.
In about a dozen thread now, that same person has basically derailed the threads and riled up a bunch of people to the point where some threads got closed. Dozens of people have tried to get through to them, but we always just get repeated the same things in slightly different words forever. You won't get anywhere except get roughly the same thing repeated to you.
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I just started putting people on ignore. I’m not gonna keep talking in circles
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The old system worked exactly as intended as well, so there was no reason for the change. And as was pointed out numerous times, whether you're logged in or not, you're not playing the game anyway. So again, no reason for the change.
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I was about to say a similar thing. I believe that person understood your point just fine, they just don't care. Although they did (shockingly) provide a good suggestion, that being whenever you test whether your troubleshooting worked, to try custom matches rather than public matches. You don't get penalized for DC'ing from custom matches.
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I hope you have/find someone who loves you as much as you love punishing survivor players.
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Something to remember is that BHVR's servers are terrible, and their netcode is worse. I was getting randomly DCed from their servers for over a year starting with the Alan Wake patch, and I still have no idea why. It stopped when I got a new modem, but the previous one had worked for over a year without issue. I made multiple threads, provided logs dozens of times, even got a private DM from BHVR asking for more details only to be ghosted, while the random DCs continued.
I assume something about the modem or the connection confused their netcode, but while all this was happening, the servers were also repeatedly falling apart. There was a game with a streamer where it was well in hand, on route to an easy win with 1 gen left and out of nowhere, Dedicated Server Not Responding. And then, 30 seconds later, as the streamer was literally opening the gate, he got DCed too. Which made it impossible to tell if it was something about my setup, or the servers constantly falling apart.
Zero issues with any other online games, including fighters (GBVS specifically) where I played with nothing more than a minor hiccup once an hour at most, but DBD? There were days where I'd get randomly DCed constantly. Multiple times, I queued, literally nothing happened for five minutes, so I requeued, only to see a ban for disconnecting from a match I was never in. The server put me into a room, readied me up, started the match, and then DCed me from it with a penalty without once confirming from the client that I was ever in the room to start with. Their netcode is complete garbage.
Assuming the immaculate perfection of BHVR's netcode and servers is asinine. Just because you're not constantly getting randomly DCed without warning or explanation doesn't mean that it's not happening, and for some of us, happening constantly while BHVR staff gaslights us and lies about it. As the servers being completely toast right now even above and beyond the AWS issues is a big piece of evidence for.
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If you can bypass a penalty is it really a penalty? There were some who would rage quit and not play until the next day. What penalty did they have to endure? The fact that the OP is troubled with having to actually face a penalty speaks for itself.
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Survivors are punished every time a survivor ragequits early. The actual innocent survivors are the people that want to play a game, but one of the other survivors ragequits or DCs early.
People keep showing a complete lack of empathy for the survivors that are negatively impacted when someone else ragequits or DCs early.
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Currently it penalizes people as it should before it could be mostly ignored and was not hindrance to anyone really.
Anyone who complains about penalties seems to be the people who deserved to get those penalties anyway.
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Because someone decided that it was better for someone to be angry and in-game than angry and doing literaly anything else.
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I not sure what the OP is saying but they did change it but not in the way he said unless they changed it again.
but what I see changed is after dcing getting dced the timer don't show up till you try to ready up then the timer shows but you can close the game after that and the timer will go down you just got to set the timer up now by ready up or try ready up
don't understand that change at all but I understand a lot thing the dev do.
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