Leaving matches early

I got a lot of flack for this one on reddit, was told running around for five minutes, crouch walking, and not respawning my team right away at the opposite rooftop beacon of were my team was killed, warranted the Caustic leaving the game after I squad wiped, and recovered both banners.

Now here’s my train of thought and explanation, I had committed to the squad on the rooftop, hence I went for it regardless of being a solo. There was a 3rd party squad below me, hence got amo and a med kit before jumping down. That 3rd party team then went up on the rooftop to loot all the boxes, hence I tried to remain lowkey, and silent.

I was not going to respawn my team right next to them, only to be thirsted and back to square one. The smart move, imo, was to respawn them just outside the tunnel, regroup, and either push Epi or Frag.

The amount of upvotes on the one comment saying I was a “show off” and leaving was warranted, kinda explains my struggles as a solo queue player, it’s getting harder to play since everyone feels entitled to leave as they pls, regardless of your efforts.

I play the game as it’s meant to be played, hence yes, I’d like to see some kind of light penalty implemented just to make teammates think twice before screwing up the entire squads game.

The problem is those idiots who choose to drop late + bad + meat grinder + solo or uninterested in the squad then gets slapped in half a second for their bad decision then rage quits leaving teammates 1 player down.

But as someone said, when you have a teammate who does that then leaves you solo, you shouldnt be punished for leaving.

I imagine those fools will get weeded out over time as they'll just keep losing and no one will want to play with them.

Similarly if your squad"mate" decides to p off solo and you get slapped, you shouldnt be punished for leaving...

- whether you get downed and cba to wait years to not be revived and not be respawned whilst your squadmate pays it no attention

- or whether you get left solo somewhere across the map and don't want to try rambo the lobby and would rather attempt to play with a together squad.

@EA_Kent

Maybe we should consider embarassing stats : How many times you abandon your team mate ?

It's mandatory to be displayed in player profile.

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@asukojo wrote:

@EA_Kent

Maybe we should consider embarassing stats : How many times you abandon your team mate ?

It's mandatory to be displayed in player profile.

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How embarrassing are we talking? Like number of missed Kraber headshots on a target who isn't even moving? Because that's definitely not something that I've ever done or anything. 🤔

/Kent

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@asukojo wrote:

@EA_Kent

Maybe we should consider embarassing stats : How many times you abandon your team mate ?

It's mandatory to be displayed in player profile.

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"abandoning" cannot be defined and traced.

how would you judge this: I am Jumpmaster, I pick a spot to land, the other two pick their own spot and land there together. now, who abandoned whom? Is the rule, you follow your Jumpmaster? or is it, follow the majority?

or: Whole team is collecting equipment within a few houses distance. One meets an enemy team and gets downed in 1v3 before the other two can come around. who abandoned whom? 

or: Your team starts a fight, then gets flanked by third party. While two team members chose to run and live, third one keeps attacking. Who abdoned whom?

Respawn in an area with a squad watching but has loads of loot but needs to be evacuated coz the ring is closing Vs respawn where there's probably no loot a squad at your back and possibly one in front and area pilfered. My experience has been I'm rarely as strong after respawn if the squad leaves behind my death box. But there's always hope. While I think your logic was sound luck was against you because you had 2 banners. He quit because he didnt see anything tangible coming from your decision to loot all over again. 

@1ronKeysUnfortunately it doesn't weed them out but the problem is actually getting worse as time progresses.

You will always have those that drop late but it will discourage those that drop solo or who are uninterested in the squad as it will take more time to repeat so more consideration will be placed on the match and fellow players because as things stand it's way to easy to just abandon them and move on to the next.  The whole point of the suggestion was to encourage teamplay because getting knocked, finished and respawned is a part of having a successful match.

@asukojoI don't think negative or embarrassing stats will encourage people but I'm all for something that promotes teamplay or helping others.

@EA_KentI can also state I have never ever done this. Ever! 😇 I have. 😳

@Tamyndris  That is up for debate.

As to your other 2 examples, it doesn't matter.  Different decisions and miscommunication will happen even with the best teams but as long as you stick around while you can be respawned to help your team mid to late game.. that's the focus.

@evandave34Having a team mate with a white shield and an alternator with no meds is a lot more useful than no team mate.