Deranking Fix
To address the issue of players who derank on purpose by AFKing or leaving a macro to swing repeatedly as killer and things of the sort, can we please institute an algorithm that detects if killers are:
- Just standing in place the entire game doing nothing
- Standing in place swinging their weapon over and over at regular intervals
- Standing in place and looking left and right randomly while swinging their weapon at regular or irregular intervals?
Any killers detected to be playing in this manner should automatically receive a safety pip and no bloodpoints or XP for the match.
I don't know how to prevent survivors from doing it, de-ranking survivors will either DC or suicide early, but in general Survivors don't de-rank and rather climb up the ranks so probably not as important.
I propose this for the health of the game so that new survivors aren't getting smashed by derankers all the time. It's not a big deal for me, I can deal with most killers and have a good game at any rank as long as they aren't top red-rank (those guys are too good for me) but it's no secret the game is having problems with survivors at the low ranks. If we want to grow the game a fix like this is needed (one of the many things needed).
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I mean all this does is make people play wraith run around invisible and do nothing boom theres your counter to this whole thing.
Forcing people to rank up is not the answer to the issue giving rewards to Encourage it is one thing but it you try to force people to rank up you are gonna have the exact same issue we had before people are just gonna find away around it and say this even goes through you basically just forced people to camp in order to depip.
And if you let campers safety pip they'll just abuse rank reset to get lower and lower basically your idea although i feel you thought about it i dont think you took everything into account people are going to derank no matter what you do it's just how pvp games with ranking systems work.
This only addresses a small number of killers and has no effect on survivors. Besides the methods already mention, a killer can still kill everyone unpleasantly without pipping. Survivors just need a low rank swf buddy and that usually puts them against much weaker killers.