ReJoin match button
While I really enjoy this game, the penalty for being kicked or disconnecting is outdated and seriously needs some work put into it. I am so tired of my internet dropping and I come back to 5, 10, 15minute + penalty because I have loss of power or whatever the reasoning.
They should add a ReJoin match button, since the matches don't get filled anyway, why can't you rejoin the match? Like come on. You should be able to bypass the penalty simply rejoining the match and playing. This should reset all your progress and load you in as if you just loaded in at the start of the match. I hate being penalized for something that is unavoidable.
There is honestly no excuse this hasn't been added to the game yet, so many other games have this feature, why doesn't DBD?? I hope this is actually considered for the next PTB or sometime in the near future. You guys are doing so many QoL changes, why isn't this one?
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Haha are you serious?
Imagine how this could be abused
This should reset all your progress and load you in as if you just loaded in at the start of the matchSo a Survivor on death hook can quit & reload, and no longer be on death hook? That would be abused non-stop.
Also, Survivors in a SWF would DC when downed, wait for their friend to say, 'The Killer left where you went down', and then log back in and get picked up.
The idea is much, MUCH too easy to abuse for Survivor's benefit.
There is honestly no excuse this hasn't been added to the game yet
There is, it will be either bad or it will be abusable.
I said progress, not hook status. Hook status is saved on server sided and kept when your DC, it shows how many times this dc'd person has been hooked. You loading in shouldn't change this. Really it's just a matter of how or where you load into the match.
I am talking primarily about match points. If you DC you shouldn't be able to load back in and just pick up where you left off with getting 20k bp at the end of the match.
I'm sure there are ways to prevent it from being abused or the whole penalty system needs reworked altogether. DCing from a match shouldn't be a continued punishment, should be a set amount of time and that's it, not accumulated based on how many DC, at this point they should just ban you for 1 day for DCing.
This is mostly for internet drops then it is for actually leaving the game, which is easily tellable from the game. Did this person push LEAVE, block them from rejoining and give them penalty. While this can still be abusive with task manager, they could just give you the full penalty if the game is completely closed and reopened.
Almost every time you lose connection to the game it never fully closes just kicks you back to the start screen with an error message. This can probably be done with just looking at the player's current session as I'd imagine this resets every time you relaunch the game and start a new session.
The point of the current system is that, if you only DC due to net drops, you will probably have waited out the ban by teh time you log back in.
But if you repeatedly DC; you either deserve the longer wait because you are deliberately DCing, or need to fix your internet.
Either way; the current system is perfectly fine, and we don't need some abusable mechanic to fix what is not broken.
While I understand the progress part, there's still the fact that Survivors in an SWF can DC, wait for the Killer to move, then reconnect and get picked up by their friend. It would be used to dodge being hooked.
It's not needed.
Penalty is fine as it is. If you are having constant disconnections the best solution is not trying to play the game that requires constant internet connection. Otherwise you screw yourself and your teammates, even if there is a rejoin button or no penalty.
You don't have to close the game to imitate the disconnection (unplug the cable or push the router button). Its already abused.
i understand your frustration. my power went out last night because of some clown slamming into a power line in their car. of course i hope they're alright, but it doesn't changed the fact that i was booted from a match i was winning.
nevertheless the issue with rejoining a game like this is that the game's entire design is based on time management and health states through constant interactions. consider how the match would change if a player was allowed to leave and rejoin.
first - a killer that leaves and rejoins could hold a match hostage as a bloodpoint farm. which would be boring for the survivors. in fact there used to be an afk doctor build that players used back when the rework hit live. doc bots would do a sequence of moves to prevent being kicked which forced the survivor players to do gens and leave while being harassed by constant madness explosions from an afk doc.
However, instead of being harassed by madness the killer would be missing entirely. the killer could rejoin - depending on load times - and if the killer failes to join back in 3 minutes the game would be over. Even on series X it takes a good 2-3 minutes to load the match up. last generation consoles haven't got a chance in hell.
and that's pretty much how it would go for killers every time. it's irrelevant whether the model stays in the world if the killer leaves, but some perks would probably break.
survivors on the other hand would have 2 options.
option 1 is the survivor model stays in the world and you have those running in a straight line till they hit a wall characters or you have characters that are standing still. either way crows would build onto the player and after a certain amount of time the player would be found by a killer and hooked. it takes 90 seconds for a survivor to die without any assistance on a hook. if hook farmed it takes 5 seconds. assuming you're not hook farmed and you disconnected in a safe location like a locker or the edge of the map. so in a perfect scenario you'd get 100 seconds till crows spawn and 120 seconds for a sacrifice. aloting you 220 seconds to fix your internet and reconnect before you die - assuming you're not already hooked and you're not farmed by altruistic villains.
so even in a perfect situation you've got less than 4 minutes (240 seconds) to return.
most likely youll have less than 1 minutes because you'll be found and hooked and farmed.
the other option is for your body to disappear from the match and then reappear where you left off. so if for example you leave while in a killer's grasp or while bleeding out in dying state or during a chase or with a reverse beartrap on your head or when there are 5 generators unrepaired. or if everyone else died except you but the hatch is open... i'm sure you can see the countless number of issues with this option.
i hope that explains why you can't rejoin. this isn't a round based game with balanced team elements. it's a 1v4 free for all style elimination match where the main source of eliminations come from the killer. imagine if you could rejoin fall guys after desynch. it just wouldn't make sense gameplay wise. the game considers you as eliminated if you disconnect. that's why the game ends if the killer disconnects.
some games that come to mind with rejoin functions are r6 siege and rocket league. Siege uses a rounds out of a total of 9 possible rounds system where the match resets each round. those rounds take only 3 minutes, but a whole match can take an hour with most taking no more than 20 minutes. a dead by daylight match CAN be completed in 3 minutes, but is highly unlikely to be done before 5. if players felt that rounds should be added where best of 5 or best of 9 matches should be held then the rejoin function would make more sense. rocket league is similar as after every score the game resets. dead by daylight currently does not have a reset system and matches are too short to defend holding it hostage until a player returns.
however, i'm sure you've probably played some other games like friday the 13th? those games have lobbies where players compete to be the killer (jason) and so it can be beneficial to maintain the lobby's history of players so each player can get a fair chance at being killer. so that game let's you join back also - except if you do disconnect then you just die. including the killer.
my comment disappeared?
how unfortunate.
It got caught by the spam filter, I approved it.
oh. understandable. i edit a lot and post in bursts. thanks for that. sorry for the issue.
No issues, don't worry!