Just something to consider
The most unfun thing in assymetrical horror games is when you get to play with bad teammate(there are 4 survivors in a game so chances that you re going to get paired with bad mate is pretty high) that would suicide on the hook or disconnect then after that having unbalanced game 3 vs 1 is the most unfun annoying process we have to go through. You did a good job so far with preventing 3 vs 1 games if someone failed to load in . Maybe you could add another player that could change such a bad teammate or at least something close to it?
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That would be highly complicated, for example: How should that additional player be awarded with Emblem points? How far can the trial progress before new players aren't allowed to join anymore? In which state and where should the "replacement player" spawn?
Quite hard yeah but that s the biggest problem this kind of game could have. One give up early and it s ruining the experience for the rest of a team.