DC Time-outs COMMON!

I had several poor matches today. And for a moment I considered as I struggled on my second hook why players simply disconnect when they are not having fun. Then I was rescued off the hook which bought me a few more moments game time.

A close friend of mine shocked me today by saying she didn't give two s-- for ranks, all she wanted to do was the dailies and the challenges. Which is fine. But I guarantee she would be upset if every match she was denied her daily or the challenge or kept failing. She has logged off before due to these frustrations, but in my case unlike her I play to get better, and part of that is showing to myself I can rank up and hold the rank.

Maybe its a poor reason but I consider players who are level 50 P3 and higher rank than me are better at the game and give me something to aim for.

Ok. Let me just clear something up because I'm not 100%.

When you say slugging, do you mean slugging a player when everyone else is dead/hooked and just leaving them on the floor till they bleed out?

DC equals trash, end of story.

I understand being frustrated with game designs and choices, things being unfair in their execution, sometimes the odds are stacked against you and it is purely because of how they were designed; it doesn't feel good and we understand that.

It is still not okay to intentionally make the game WORSE for everyone else.

It is not ok to intentionally make other players lose because you're having a bad time.

Your fellow teammates lose when you DC, they lose Rank and they lose any possibility of getting points. That Killer either plays the game out and has a chance of other players DCing too or farm and hope everyone stays so they can recover from what that DC Trash did so selfishly.

If you DC because of problems in the game, you make those problems worse for everyone else. You suffering was multiplied and you intentionally made everyone suffer because you were having a bad time. That is why people get punished for disconnecting, because it isn't fair for everyone else.

The game has problems that need fixing but we need to work together to fix them, not spread dissent and chaos.

Survivors rage quit because they dont want to die. Ive been messaged enough hate simply for playing the game been accused of camping etc.

Honestly camping is a funny one to me didnt they make it so that if a killer is close to the hook and there are no survivors nearby they loose points rather than gain them? What i dont understand is that when someone is getting camped people attempt a rescue possibly throw the game. Where as they could just gen rush and at the least 2 of them escape. Plus the killer looses points. If 3 gens can be done in 1 min with optimal play and hook timers are 2 mins i dont see why you cant do gens have 3 people escape against a camper and punish the player.

The most common dc i personally see is if someone is downed fast because they werent paying attention just bad plays or its genuinely against tunneling or camping killers and they dc and throw the game for everyone else in the lobby.

No one wants to be camped but if you can quickly get gens done you can punish the player for doing it yet people prefer to dc.

On the killer side i mostly see rage quits against swf teams that play well and the killer cant handle it and all escape tbagging at the gate and the killer gets mad.

Theres also the dc so the other person gets hatch which can happen in swf groups.

I never played H1Z1, it looks fun but it looks like you can die fairly easy before actually being prepared to fight, battle royales aren't really my thing. Unless I'm an idiot and don't know what H1Z1 is and I'm thinking of PUBG. I agree that problems need to be fixed and once they're fixed the DC rates will go down, that's a given. I was just stating how I personally feel about DCs and why they're bad, I also assume most people who DC are just being toxic and not doing because they feel the game is intentionally against them because it isn't unless the servers are lagging so bad and playing is impossible. DCing for that is totally understandable and I don't argue about that; if you can't play you can't play.

With dedicated servers devs will probably make punishment for DC. About time, if you ask me. Just wait, you tilted pip stealers...

Problem here is YOUR reasons for DCing are not EVERYONES reasons, so if you do not punish the real problem (DCing in the first place) then everyone will find a reason to "justify" DCing.

Punish DC its far from a foreign concept.

I concur there are problems with the game everyone knows that, but one would be hard pressed to find a multi-player game that doesn't have issues. The aim is to try to bring something to the table so devs can make your game of choice better should they care enough. But to try to excuse DCing means you are excusing toxicity in general. People who complain about perceived disadvantages and then proceed to willingly disable their allies at the drop of a dime are pretty hypocritical, and probably shouldn't be playing games in the first place.

This game specifically was never designed for anything to be easy, and I don't think people understand that.

From the DBD community in general what I have observed is nothing is ever perfect or enough and people will always ######### and moan on both sides. In all my years of playing I have never seen slugs of the caliber you mentioned, and what slugs there were other survivors were smart and skilled enough to get the killers attention and lead them around while the others healed up, or they had perks that allowed them to get up on their own. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, no one is ever going to always win or have odds always in their favor.

Now I play both killer and Survivor and honestly the most DCs I have seen have either been because a person was camped which I get is not fun, but more often than that I have seen someone simply get downed by the killer and immediately leave. Basically throwing in the towel due to lack of skill, and often they are downed because they for some reason decided to teabag and play games only for it to end extremely poorly. Such players have no business in this game in the first place because all they do is make it worse for the rest of us. They don't seem to bring constructive criticism, just easily solvable to nonsense complaints and justifications that aids nothing.

Well dc punishments are coming and being tested atm with the dedi servers. They will lead to timeouts instead of the current % ban system and the timeout will increase the more you do it. If one member of an SWF does it then all will also be affected if they stay in the lobby with them.

It's long overdue and next hopefully will be a way to stop lobby dodging.

People will have to accept the game or as I said stop playing.

Just want to point something out here, there are somewhat reasonable (while still a little gray-area) reasons to DC from a match.

1) Killer has Dying Light, you are on death hook, and the killer just continually slugs you to take up one survivors time picking you up constantly, and keep YOU from doing anything from the match. Take the L and DC, you actually will be more useful to your teammate as they are now only down 1 person than 2, and now the killer has no more Dying Light slowdown

2) 3 gens left, you and your other remaining survivor are the last, you run the killer long enough for another gen (or skip all that and get to the main point) killer slugs you to try to find the hatch before hooking you and your teammate is teabagging like a madman to say "I HAVE FOUND IT"... Give it to em' That is even stronger in a SWF game where they can just say it without the teabagging.

3) Keeping your rank at something not dumb. I know plenty of people who refuse to play at rank 1, or any red ranks for

Long AF queue times

Lots of teammates who are just trashy

Overall not worth the headache to play there

and would rather stay at their purple ranks (which have really good queue times btw). Well, you can de-pip/de-rank in plenty of ways, but most of them are through being a trash tier teammate and hurting the team... So do what a friend of mine does, just play through the match normally and play your normal way, not trying to de-rank, and then at the end of the match, standing by the exit with the door open, just DC. It will de-rank you/keep you at your current rank and you get to stay where the queue times are good and people play well.

To say there is no reason for a DC is actually a lie, there are (what I consider) valid reasons to disconnect from a match. I do feel survivors who DC from matches should be punished, if it is a DC that is harmful to the team or because the survivor was just being high grade salt.

That's easily done as if the ping is over a certain amount then there is no punishment.

While some will be rude there is not much that can be done about that. The option then would be to allow one dodge per 2 hours as that case is so rare. Then make chat optional as most players will wait for the end game chat anyway to be toxic.

The no mither argument doesn't hold water as that was an assumption and not guaranteed. I've never seen a bunch of David even at low levels all running no mither. Even if they did though it woukd part of the reasons dodging shouldn't be allowed as that was cherry picking a game and anything and everything someone decides to use is part of it.