Blocking People From Your Games
Both sides have dealt with toxic people whether in play style and/or words. Some things are reportable offenses and some are not.
what BHVR should introduce is the ability for killers and survivors to just line-item ignore players. What I mean by this is if you put someone on your ignore list you simply won't get a match with them period. This accomplishes two things:
1) With all the tens of thousands (what like 30K players now) of people playing at the same time it should not make any impact on your wait times and you get to ignore the vilest of what you perceive as indecent players. It in a sense let's the individual deal with this issue rather than putting on BHVRs shoulders.
2) If someone is truly a jerk and are getting ignored by hundreds of players this will after awhile filter them out of the community. Mass ignores is the only way that #1 could be impacted. Good riddance!
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And this can also be abused by blocking good players - those players will never get a match again.
It used to be a thing way back in the early days that you could block a player on Steam and as you could see all other players then a lot of people blocked the people that were better than them.
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@MandyTalk thank you for the background details. Some ideas are great but just need tweaks. Sometimes our pursuit of perfection in a system gets in the way of progress don't you think?
What do you think of these small tweaks that could make it viable:
1) Limit who you can see. I'm honesty not sure what you mean by that.
2) Make it so you can only have a limited number of people who you are able to block at any given time.
3) You referenced "back in the early days", surely the size of DbD has grown by an enormous factor to allow good players to still find games?
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What about the thumbs up/down button? Does it do anything atm? I could see this also being abused, but less impactful. What about maybe an optional thumbs up, then? It could even encourage better sportsmanship if incentivized by maybe limited cosmetics or shards 🤷♀️
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No matter how you tweak it, the bottom line is that players should not be able to influence the matchmaker. Can you imagine if literally any other competition worked like that?
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This will be abused
in games that have this it gets abused especially competitive ones
you might have good intents on why you would want to block but most I meet would block because in their minds being outplayed was toxic and that would cause a lot of increased que times
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Thumbs up I'm not sure of, however depending on what type of report depends on what else you need to do. Chat reports you only need to report for, whist hacking reports you need to provide extra proof to DBD support.
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@Orion I disagree, there are plenty of times that individuals need to censor another individual; the retail person who turns away the screaming lunatic customer, the argument that you choose not to participate in so you just walk away. We get to choose in most circumstances the people we surround ourselves with in life.
Suddenly the word competition is used and all bets are off. Besides cheating people can just be pricks because they can hide behind the anonymity of the internet? I think we should ask and demand more from people.
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If someone is behaving in a way that violates the rules of the establishment (or game, in this case), you can report them. Ignoring them without reporting them so the proper authorities can take care of the problem doesn't help at all and only makes them bolder in their attempts to get a rise out of you.
I also think we should ask more of people. I just disagree with your idea that not asking them for anything (which is what ignoring is) is the way to go about it.
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@Orion if BHVR had a little tighter control over what is considered "unsportsmanlike conduct" I think 90% of the behavior would just disappear. They could probably just drop post-game chat (i know we can close it and most should) because little good comes out of it.
In game I would like for them to come up with small things to reduce stuff naturally, i.e.:
1) coming out of crouch takes a second and you can't spam it and teabag people
2) flashlight overheats or just burns out if you just spam the key, I mean serious some people click that thing 30 times in a second.
3) Hitting survivors on the hook extends by slowing down the progress meter.
Other such things like that...
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But you're not talking about any behaviour that is going to be considered as "unsportsmanlike" now or ever.
So it just seems like you're asking for a block on players that are beating you in a game - which is exactly the reason that all this was essentially removed years ago.
I don't find any of the behaviour that you have listed there as being unsportsmanlike in the slightest and I would be very against implementing mechanics to change anything listed.
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Instead of asking them to drop the post-game chat, why not use the report system? I have fun conversations in the post-game chat, occasionally, but I also report all the ######### I see, to try to decrease the number of unfun conversations.
- I sometimes alternate between crouching and standing when I'm not using Urban Evasion and want to remain hidden while the killer searches my area. Even a second of delay could be the difference between escaping unseen and getting a meat cleaver shoved up my ass.
- While annoying, that's a sign you can ignore that player. They're not going to work on gens, they're just gonna follow you around all the time. Without that, gen rush would probably be worse. Still, I would also like to see this removed.
- With the way hits and hit priority works, killers are likely to hit hooked survivors instead of the one they're chasing. This is a hard "no" due to the abusable nature of it.
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Exactly. In earlier Overwatch they had the ability to block and block, and a Top Tier Widowmaker could no longer get matches because he was blocked by so many opponents over time.
They removed it completely.
However, they later added in the ability to only block up to three people at a time, and it resets every seven days. So, unless you renew a block, they come off the block. And if you do renew, that still holds as one of your three.
Much less abuseable so far, and it's been around two years.
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If they retooled it maybe. But I have a strange feeling it will mostly be used to block good players so your stuck steamrolling newbies. If they manged to make a system that doesn't allow for that I'd be down.
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