Playing on PS4. Never had any issues until the last update. The game will start lagging and jumping and then will disconnect with 'out of sync with server' message showing. This is annoying enough, but when you reconnect you have to suffer double as you get a match abandonment penalty too. My internet is fine. It would be great if this problem was fixed, but if you can't fix it at the very least please don't punish the players for it.
@jjoyce009 you are right, this shouldn't be done. Why they do it? Easier then doing a system that actually can track if you got disconnected or you left willingly from the game. CS GO has this kind of system, a game from 2012 but Apex doesn't, can't that kind of system be implemented here?
@Eshshshss Maybe a system like CS GO has, don't know for sure if it can be done here or not but they can try at least.
Game should be able to tell if you disconnected willingly or just got disconnected because of the server issues, see how its done in CS GO and probably other games too. If you are leaving a match willingly then yes you should get the penalty immediately. If you are randomly disconnected because of lag/crushes, etc then it should be a time(e.g 2 to 5 minutes) until you get the penalty and to have the possibility to rejoin the game. If you get multiple disconnects because of the game/servers/internet then it should just not give you a penalty and let you join another match.
Also the part where you said that he should not play while servers are bad, can't agree with you, imagine paying money to buy the skins and can't play the game, what is the point of buying staff in the game if anytime there could be a problem that will not let you play? It's not players fault that servers are bad, its Respawn/EA problem, they should fix it somehow or just remove the penalty in ranked until they fix their issue with the servers. Of course this will lead to other staff like people leaving games like in pubs, too early, but if it can be implemented a system like the one in CS GO you will not have those problems.
It's easier to not play while game it's bad or has server issues but imagine this happening after you bought staff in shop, will you say the same thing? What if this continually happens and you can't play the game for a long period of time, you just throw the money and time invested to the garbage trash? It's easy to say "don't play the game when its bad" but maybe some people invested time and money in this game and want to play it, not to leave and play something else.
This is happening only on the servers with the shortest pings. Can you share with me your crystal ball that you have so I can tell when it is going to happen? They obviously can produce a specific error code when it happens, so they can already tell the difference.
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