Suggestions for fixing Killer-end Abandon system
There is evidence to suggest that the Abandon system at it is can negatively impact a Killer player's killrate and MMR. Otzdarva showed this happening on his stream with Twins.
Abandoning while there are still survivors alive when they are all bots, will count the bots (but AFAIK, not the Survivor players) as having Escaped on the Killer's record if they choose to Abandon.
This means that Killers can have their recorded kills/killrate unfairly impacted, and some killers can abuse this error to intentionally tank their MMR for easier lobbies.
I have 2 solutions to this:
1. The obvious, correct this so any bot-controlled survivors in the lobby are counted as Killed/Sacrificed instead of Escaped.
I have another suggestion to go onto this, grant the Killer Bloodpoints equivalent to how many they would've gotten by hooking each bot.
E.G: If all bots are death-hook, when the Killer abandons, they get awarded 4 Hook score events and 4 Sacrifice score events. If 2 bots are death hook, and 2 are 0-hook, then the Killer is awarded 4 hooks, 4 sacrifices, 2 entity summons and 2 first-hook scores. If there are 3 1-hook survivors, then 3 hooks, 3 entity summons and 3 sacrifices, ETC.
2. As a potential short-term fix, make the Survivor bots surrender and move toward the killer and towards hooks in-proximity to the Killer. This might be harder to implement than just fixing the Sacrificed/Escaped issue, but it will double for giving the Killer Bloodpoints they would've missed by Abandoning themselves
Comments
Agreed. I made a similar suggestion. https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/463108/if-all-survivors-dc-killer-abandoning-should-count-as-a-4k-or-exclude-the-match#latest