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jonesy0218's avatar
6 years ago

If you leave early, you don't get stats.

I'm stealing this idea from someone in another post, but I think the perfect way to penalize people for leaving a game early is to make the stats not count - no kills, no damage, no wins, no games played, nothing.

People who hot drop will think twice before getting 3-4 easy kills and then leaving when they're down.

Overall, it's a win-win. 

1. If you go down, you wait to be revived or get respawned like a normal person.

2. If your teammates are garbage and don't revive you or respawn you, leave. It was a loss anyway.

or 3. Wait it out... In the off chance that your teammates win without you, you still get a win for your stats. 

The time penalty means nothing. People will continue to quit because they're trying to "rebel" or something... idk. They think this is the way to get a solo mode. But right now, in SQUADS, you don't leave your teammates hanging because you want to farm kills. Instead, you watch for a few minutes out of your day and play like it was meant to be played. You're not going to handicap a team game mode because you want to play by yourself. 

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  • Silz616's avatar
    Silz616
    6 years ago

    @unogobangbang2 wrote:

    @jonesy0218 wrote:

    What aren't you understanding...? Just because you run off and get killed doesn't mean you keep your stats. This post was to suggest if you leave at any point before all your teammates have been killed, you will not get stats. You can run away and become a crate, but if we don't come get your banner quick enough and you leave before we're dead, you don't get stats. Going off on your own only results in two things - 1. You sit there and watch your teammates, or 2. You leave and get penalized. No game stats. Nobody's forcing you to quit. 🙂 


    You still can not force people to play with you.


    You are correct.

    But why would you play a team based game, to run off on your own, die, quit and start another game if you were not to accumulate stats? Most hot droppers do the die, quit rinse repeat to pad their kill stats. The solution in the OP would HELP reduce this behaviour imo. If you still decide to play that way fine, but why you would is a complete mystery.

    Judging by your responses you don't have a proper answer. What you are saying is pretty much "I know you are, I said you are but what am I" playground mentality of a 4 year old.

    Nobody can be forced. That is plain obvious. But people can be encouraged to play properly. If you decided to be to stubborn fine, but for every 1 of you, 10 may start to play properly. That's a win in my book.

  • This actually encourages stat padding and leaving early.

    If you hotdrop and get downed instantly with no kills or have a game with unfavorable kd/a - just leave and try again.

    Removing the bad games from your stats, resultung in massive boost in kd/a stats, just what these guys want.


  • @Rima131313 wrote:

    This actually encourages stat padding and leaving early.

    If you hotdrop and get downed instantly with no kills or have a game with unfavorable kd/a - just leave and try again.

    Removing the bad games from your stats, resultung in massive boost in kd/a stats, just what these guys want.



    I’ve only ever seen KDA matter in offical Ranked Games tbh. If Apex starts having Ranked games it would almost certainly stop this problem but it would also bring out the elitists 😛

  • jonesy0218's avatar
    jonesy0218
    6 years ago

    I would get it if this was a ranked game, but it's not... Haven't seen a K/D stat yet, so we should be good. :D 

  • DrunkenDuck26's avatar
    DrunkenDuck26
    6 years ago

    I am the someone in another post :eahigh_file: Ty for supporting @jonesy0218 

    @unogobangbang2 

    As long as I get their banner, they have to stay in the game if they want their stats count. It may not be a 100% solve but it will affect those who prefer to focusing kill farming instead of focusing winning. Leaver problem will be greatly reduced.

    Join&leave logic behind a team game should be like this; If we can join a game in the middle of the game session then we can leave too. but if it is not possible to join a game in the middle of the game session then it should not be possible to abondon your mates and leave too. Because when someone leave, you can't get someone to fill in.

    If you don't want to play with random peoples then wait for your friends... if you dont want to play with anyone then don't play APEX. Because this game designed as a team BR. This is a team based game just accept this... can you play LoL without a team? No, because its a team based game too.

    Do you want to play solo BR then there are a lot of solo br games, go play them...

    Do you want to play run&gun then there are lot of TDM games, go play them... 

    Do you want to be selfish egoist lone wolf hero then there are a lot of games that suit you, go play them...

    APEX is a Fast-Paced Team Based Battle Royale Game people have to accept it. Just stop trying to convert the game to your own fashion. Accept it or leave it!


  • @Rima131313 wrote:

    This actually encourages stat padding and leaving early.

    If you hotdrop and get downed instantly with no kills or have a game with unfavorable kd/a - just leave and try again.

    Removing the bad games from your stats, resultung in massive boost in kd/a stats, just what these guys want.


    There is no KDA or Win/Lose rate in this game yet. at least we're not able to see. So it wont be a problem. Also to fix this; When he/she leaves the game, he/she is considered dead and count as 1 dead / 1 lose for stats but no kills, damages, xp or any positive stats..


  • @Silz616 wrote:

    @unogobangbang2 wrote:

    @jonesy0218 wrote:

    What aren't you understanding...? Just because you run off and get killed doesn't mean you keep your stats. This post was to suggest if you leave at any point before all your teammates have been killed, you will not get stats. You can run away and become a crate, but if we don't come get your banner quick enough and you leave before we're dead, you don't get stats. Going off on your own only results in two things - 1. You sit there and watch your teammates, or 2. You leave and get penalized. No game stats. Nobody's forcing you to quit. 🙂 


    You still can not force people to play with you.


    You are correct.

    But why would you play a team based game, to run off on your own, die, quit and start another game if you were not to accumulate stats? Most hot droppers do the die, quit rinse repeat to pad their kill stats. The solution in the OP would HELP reduce this behaviour imo. If you still decide to play that way fine, but why you would is a complete mystery.

    Judging by your responses you don't have a proper answer. What you are saying is pretty much "I know you are, I said you are but what am I" playground mentality of a 4 year old.

    Nobody can be forced. That is plain obvious. But people can be encouraged to play properly. If you decided to be to stubborn fine, but for every 1 of you, 10 may start to play properly. That's a win in my book.


    IMO it will reduce nothing.  You just have to be the type of player that others want to play with.  Develop your people skills and they will stick around.

  • jonesy0218's avatar
    jonesy0218
    6 years ago

    @unogobangbang2 "IMO it will reduce nothing.  You just have to be the type of player that others want to play with.  Develop your people skills and they will stick around."

    First of all, thank you for using "IMO." It means you're not trying to bark random garbage as truth.

    Second - "Develop your people skills?" This isn't a job, first of all. And also, not everyone has a mic. Ultimately, it comes down to team etiquette. Nothing more, nothing less.

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