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When will bad ping killers be punished?

kaneyboy
kaneyboy Member Posts: 385
in General Discussions

im fed up of killers with bad ping in my games getting free hits all the time… why is this even a thing? make it so servers favour the person with better connection?!

Comments

  • CatManThree
    CatManThree Member Posts: 113

    That just sounds like reversing the problem.

  • Ryuhi
    Ryuhi Member Posts: 4,688
    edited February 16

    It would help if people could start being honest about what bad ping actually is. Not that you aren't, but its something that regularly plagues feedback on the issue.

    https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/464166/when-will-bad-ping-killers-be-punished

    The game used to be P2P, with the killer as the host. There are facets of its code that can and theoretically have broken when moving too far from that standard, which is why some elements favor one side or the other. Hits and many powers need to at least partially favor the killer, while things like interrupts/grabs kinda need to favor survivor. If it were built from the ground up on dedicated servers, it would almost definitely have cut down on some of these types of dependencies. Its a similar idea behind why many games struggle to incorporate concepts like roll back netcode after the fact when being built on delay based systems.

  • Wyndsor
    Wyndsor Member Posts: 30

    They don't care to fix it, there's no profit in it.

    I'm not shocked my teammates elect to dc/go next when the killer is 80+ and I don't blame them at all.