I will give you the same answer I have heard for the last 3 years: use lfg if you don’t like randoms. Not picking on your point but if I don’t get jumpmaster every game is a hot drop to the lobby with randoms so as soon as I am knocked I am not waiting for the revive. Report me and if I get a ban or whatever I will do something else.
I want a ban for hot dropping teammates. They ruin my experience.
Or teammates who don’t rotate the way I want.
The list goes on. Granted respawn gives you the option to report certain ones and not others. In the end it amounts to the same, you are playing with random people who will play how they want. I honestly think a lot of them like the wait screens between loading and lobby.
As far as the abandonment penalty in any form it is a joke anyways. Keep a player out of que and he will find something else. Not good for a game that wants to grow.
I assume that you are talking about early leavers and not those who wait until their banner timer has run out and then leaves legally. Because it would ofc be so stupid to punish people for playing by the rules implemented by Respawn haha.
In ranked, I rarely see early leavers who just quit when they die. However, I do see people who alt+f4 which keeps them in the game but disconnected, making a res totally unneccisery. This is ofc a bad behavior and should be treated like an illegal early leave IMO, i.e 10 min ban after his squad is eliminated. I never leave early in ranked so I dont know for sure but doesn't that ban timer also increase exponentially if you keep leaving ranked matches early and eventually can lead to a permaban? If so, then I think the system works. Everyone must be allowed to leave a ranked match early from time to time but if you are making a habit of it, then you should get permabanned for it eventually.
But I must point out that one thing thats 100x more triggering and frustrating is when a "support" thinks his role in the squad is to do nothing in fights just to get the banners and respawn you. There is literally nothing that makes me more angry than a Crypto, who starts the fight by hiding in a corner and just fly around with his drone, leaving you to 2v3. And then when you die, he says "dont worry I get your banners", sitting in his corner with full armor and 0 dmg dealt. What I try to say is that the "classes" in this game isnt that advanced; this isnt a moba. To have a successful team, everyones first job, regardless of "class", is to win fights and do their part.
I dont accusing you of anything since I dont know anything about you but I am just saying there is a possibility that its also how you treat your teammates and act in fights that causes many to wanna quit on you. Because I always fight with the team and is tbh also usually the best in my teams of randoms. And I rarely gets raged on or quit on because my teammates see that I do more than my part of the fight.
My advice to you is:
Play ranked. Very few leaves early in this game mode, at least when you get to like high silver/low gold or higher. The only real difference between ranked mode compared to pubs is precisely the leaver timer so it seems like a winwin. But if you for some reason dont want to, then your only option is to play with premades in pubs. Because bottom line is that a leaver timer in pubs would make this game unplayable. I would accept a 15 second timer before you can quit just to prevent those who quit even before they get knocked but imagine the rage and frustration if you have to wait 3 minutes after your random teammate ran away in the middle of the fight
